He was on duty that morning, therefore could not get ashore till after luncheon.

I asked a Carabiniere on duty who they were.

"Do gentlemen of your profession use cigars when on duty!" "Does a parson take his fees?

Last night, before you went on that scouting trip, I had been on duty two hours.

A few days after he was on duty, he breathed a threat against Captain Snipes.

But the fact that you signed such a contract, under compulsion, would not prevent the court from awarding damages, if you sustained them while on duty.

"I was to go on duty to-night.

How the good Soeur, who was on duty all day, managed to regulate the heat throughout the night-watches was her secret.

The Adjutant-General of the Army is charged with the military arrangements of the day, aided by the Assistant Adjutants-General on duty at the Headquarters of the Army.

One hundred men under command of a field-officer were then detached, with orders to disarm the sepoy guard in the fort, and to remain there on duty pending any attempt which might probably be made by the two native regiments to gain forcible possession of the arsenal.

During the whole of the bombardment portions of my regiment were on duty in the batteries and trenches, working at the repair of the parapets and embrasures occasionally damaged by the enemy's shot, and also taking their share of duty with the advanced and covering parties.

"Courtesy among military men is indispensable to discipline; respect to superiors will not be confined to obedience on duty, but will be extended on all occasions."

She says ladies come there and order tea, and men ask the hired girl when the barbers come on duty, and one old bird with whiskers wanted to know if Ashtaroth, the Master of Destiny, told fortunes there.

During these days Jack had been on duty in the batteries, and the sailors had taken their full part in the work.

Nevertheless, in all representations purporting to be life-like, effect must be subservient to correctness of detail; and such was the costume in which his lordship, on duty at the Horse Guards, received a dispatch that seemed to cause him considerable surprise and vexation.

A large part of the troops now called artillery are, and have been, on duty as infantry, the distinction between the two arms being merely nominal.

The great war, when it came, found him on duty in the Intelligence Department.

'Have you seen nothing in the sky?' asked he; and when I answered in the negative, he bade me run to the guard-house, and ask the man on duty if he had seen nothing.

On guard, sir!" "I am here on duty, I tell you!"

She rose at last, nerving herself for the coming meeting, and went to the side door, where she told the man on duty that she wished to see the lecturer.

The first occurrence out of the ordinary course of things that struck the American was the strong light of a lamp shining through an upper window of the government-housenot that at which the lieutenant was posted, but one above itand which had been placed there expressly as an indication to the frigate that Griffin had arrived, and was actively on duty.

Little Digby alone, who was to do sentry service, remained on duty.

Such of the men as were on duty in pilot-house, pits, wireless, or engine-room were all sticking; but a number of off-duty Legionaries were crowding into the main corridor.

His opinion is, that both men were "asleep, or nearly so," owing to having been on duty for sixteen hours and a-half.

It is due to this officer to state that at the period of the passage of the law of December, 1861, he was and still is absent on duty on a foreign station, and the certificate of his age required by the Navy Department was only received a few days since.