118 examples of casualty in sentences

"A casualty to Sherman," says Gen. Grant, "that would have taken him from the field that day would have been a sad one for the Union troops engaged at Shiloh.

WOUNDED YANKS ARE CHEERFUL A Paris correspondent just from the front saysThe spirit of American soldiers passing through casualty stations is admirable.

At Gomery, in a casualty clearing station, under Dr. Sédillot, there were numerous wounded remaining in the German lines.

The casualty list was as follows: Bulgariansprisoners: 11 officers, 1,241 men; 11 men wounded; 51 men killed; comitadjis, 4 wounded, 11 killed.

We had pushed on faster than our supplies, and with the equipment of a Casualty Clearing Station we had to do the work of a Stationary Hospital.

Then at last the railway opened up a big Stationary Hospital, our Casualty Clearing Station moved further to the bush, and Sister Mabel's work was done.

But the same documents, which proved that twenty-three per cent were destroyed in this wasting traffic, proved that in West India ships only about one and a half per cent were lost, including every casualty.

Our men then poured a volley into the mutineers, who fired in return, but fortunately without causing any casualty on our side.

Close following the first came several straggling shots, but the rascals fired too high, and we had no casualty.

Spenser took up his residence on the forfeit lands in Cork; there married, and reared a family which inherited his estate; that he subsequently died in England was as mere a casualty as that by which Swift was born in Ireland.

We select a single one of these as a specimen, by the application to which of a little arithmetic, it will be perceived that the employer would bring the laborer in debt to him at the end of the year, though not a moment should be lost by sickness or other casualty.

Thus it has been reserved for an officer, reported dead in the casualty list, to ring up his people on the telephone and correct "this silly story about my being killed."

I could have got" "It looks like a permanent casualty.

After all, the Zeppelin raid had been a grotesque failure in the fine art of murder, and the casualty list was so light that Paris jeered at the death-ships which had come in the night.

" We intended to proceed direct from the banks of the Mississippi to Edwardsville, which lies in a north-easterly direction from St. Louis, but unfortunately got on the wrong track, an occurrence by no means uncommon on the prairies, and by this casualty visited Troy, a town containing two houses, namely, a "groggery," and a farm-house, both owned by the one person.

COMMERCE CLEARING HOUSE, INC. Fire and casualty cases, other than automobile.

(AI registration entered under British Proclamation of 10Mar44) R586867. Casualty.

The latest of the now so fashionable short-story volumes to come my way is one called Our Casualty, Etc. (SKEFFINGTON).

But I rather specially enjoyed the title-piece, which tells how the super-patriotism of an aged volunteer defeated the kindly plans of those who would have saved him fatigue by assigning to him the rôle of casualty in a trench-relief practice.

There were not enough officers and men taking the train to make up a day's casualty list; for ours was only a small party returning from leave.

Still the recruiting posters called for more soldiers and the casualty lists appeared day after day with the regularity of want advertisements.

The published casualty lists giving the names of officers and men and their battalions is a means of causing casualties.

But the British public demanded to see the casualty lists and the British Press were allowed to gratify the desire.

It is remarkable that the percentage returned by the life insurance companies, accumulating, as they do, large reserves in trust for the policyholders, is greater than it is for the other kinds of companies (fire, marine, casualty, surety, liability, accident, and health insurance).

Our last casualty was Ayling, who left us under somewhat unusual circumstances.

118 examples of  casualty  in sentences