The dug-outs were improved and made watertight and the Officers' Mess and sleeping huts were moved up from the river bank into the Battery position itself.

Our officers were invited to have their meals in the Italian Artillery officers' Mess, which was a large and comfortable place and where the food was not only good, but very much cheaper than could have been got outside.

The money for the same had found its way into the officers' pockets.

'I will teach you, sir,' O'Donnell replied, 'that the law can protect its officers'; but my father reminded him that he had no witness.

Pétion now issued orders to search the officers' quarters for this child's flag, and, when it was found, one of the Jacobin members was not ashamed to produce it to the Assembly as a proof that the court was meditating a counter- revolution and a massacre of the patriots, and to propose the instant dissolution of the Guard.

The officers' linen is washed by their orderlies in very convenient wash-houses built of wood and cement.

The officers' mess is entrusted to private contract.

On my proceeding to a house used as officers' quarters, outside the stockade, I found the stir had been caused by the arrival of two companies of light-horse soldiers from St. Marks, escorting several couples of bloodhounds, to aid the army, operating in that part of Florida, to exterminate the Indians.

We took possession of the station, and near our old headquarters found a hut in which was the Bolshevik officers' breakfast, with potatoes cooked to a nicety on the fire.

The colonel and the troops were to surround the officers' messroom, and offer them life and largesse, or death and destruction.

Outside the parcel was scrawled, above the initials of the G.H.Q. officers' cook, a friend of mine, "It's top holetry it with a drop of sauce."

but I'm sorry for it, that I amhe says then, that the Quarter you ax'd for, ar'n't come yet, and there's time enough for you to read it in when it do; that the Blackwood and the Officers' Magazine are hout; that you may go without your new novels afore he'll let you have 'em chaiper than other folks, (and there's a shocking shame, sir!)

Nearly all of them had something, a rifle, a pistol or a sword, and two wore officers' laced coats over their painted bodies.

The effort to produce this higher intellectual standard in the officers' corps must be felt in their training from the military school onwards, and must find its expression in a school of military education of a higher class than exists at present.

In another hole to which the general took me was the officers' mess about as large as a suburban bathroom.

Wherever he went on foot, especially when he slipped out of the Prison for dangerous spy-work among the forces of the mutineers, rebels, rioters and budmashes of the city, he was followed by his servant, an African, concerning whom Colonel Ross-Ellison had advised the servants of the Officers' Mess to be careful and also to bear in mind that he was not a Hubshi.

BENDER'S MANUAL; supervisors', county and town officers' manual, by Frank B. Gilbert.

Second, he is not only an honorary officer serving France, he is really a lieutenant in the officers' reserve corps of his own State, and our little ambulance has never sheltered an officer before.

It has been made hideous by modern additions which have converted it into officers' quarters.

Officers' letters from the front, so freely published earlier in the war, amazed experienced correspondents by their unconscious indiscretions.

The officers' mess hall, next to the kitchen and built in the same fashion, had some boards nailed on posts sunk in the ground for a table, which was proof against tipping when you climbed over it or squeezed around it to your place.

The church, also, which I have before mentioned, was soon to be distinguished, rising above the Government cottage and officers' quarters; while in order to ensure an ample supply of water, deep wells were sunk on the tableland within the settlement, which fully answered expectation, the water proving good and abundant.

" She put on a modest look, and said, "I do not like to go to the young officers' quarters.

So I went through the officers' quarters forty miles an hour, letting out a string of yells you might have heard to the coast, just to show my respect for the United States army.

It was an officers' game, on board great naval ships; it had proper and sufficient antecedents.