34 examples of unmilitary in sentences

" "Is it not unmilitary, sir, for two soldiers like ourselves to remain in doubt on such a point?

It seemed so very unmilitary for two old soldiers to allow themselves to be shut up in ignorance of what their enemies were at, that I could not resist the desire to make a little sortie.

How he became possessed of them, especially the pistol- balls, I never could learn; probably he was supplied by his unmilitary countrymen: pistol-balls are never given to infantry.

It has always been unmilitary, and from the same cause, a disposition to seek popularity on the part of its officers.

Few battles confer more honour on the Roman soldier than this on the Trebia, and few at the same time furnish graver impeachment of the general in command; although the candid judge will not forget that a commandership in chief expiring on a definite day was an unmilitary institution, and that figs cannot be reaped from thistles.

"If you air afeer'd, suh"and then he saw that no one had heard, and he winkedwinked with most unmilitary familiarity.

There was something unmilitary about the look of him that mildly amused her.

They were in fact at this time the most unmilitary part of the population, and they inherited the title only because the property qualification for the equites equo privato, i.e. the cavalry who served with their horses, had been taken as the qualification also for equestrian judices, to whom Gaius Gracchus had given the decision of cases in the quaestio de repetundis.

"I protest against this riotous and unmilitary procedure," he said, addressing himself to his still abstracted and thoughtful superior.

How like you the manner of the stranger's advance, General?" "Unmilitary, but enticing!

Americans are less accustomed than others to prompt and exact obedience, being a self-governing and unmilitary nation: and they may require some time to become aware of the privileges of subordination to command.

"It's like this all over the island, your ladyship," volunteered Mr. Bowles, mopping his brow in a most unmilitary way.

The straight, worn roads of flinty chalk passed for many miles ARRAS through country where there was no unmilitary activity save that of the crops pushing themselves up.

All the old organizations, some dating back to '12-'15, had lately grown to amazing numbers, while many new ones had been so perfectly uniformed, armed, accoutred and drilled six nights a week that the ladies, in their unmilitary innocence, could not tell the new from the old.

On the commander observing this movement, which he seemed to think quite unmilitary, he remonstratedthe warriors arose; but, alas!

The mortar I may explain to my unmilitary readers is a short carronade of large bore and with a comparatively short range.

"On what goose has this my tailor fed that he hath grown so sightly!" They stood watching the crowds, once brightened only by the red shirts of firemen or the blue and brass of a policeman, but now varied with weird uniforms, or parts of uniforms, constructed on every known and unknown pattern, military and unmilitary, foreign and domestic.

He would have hated to die during this war of a simple, unmilitary automobile accident, and the army could ill afford just now to lose one of the heroes of the Marne.

It is unmilitary and contrary to regulations; and, then, hundreds are not as plenty with Lyon and myself as they are with you.

" Nevin's retort was addressed solely to Private James Thompson, who had in an unfortunate moment given way to laughter of an unmilitary character.

Unmilitary men were skeptical, but the military heads assured them it was a piece of grand strategy, which the public must not be allowed to understand.

Unmilitary men thought the event might delay the movement upon Vicksburg, but it did not have that effect.

But, you see, even armies of hundred thousands in Germany can execute as little as we; and you must remember what the Grand Condé, or the great Prince of OrangeI forget whichsaid, that unmarried girls imagine husbands are always on duty, unmilitary men that soldiers are always fighting.

Coronado, unmilitary though he was, and heartily as he abominated the Lieutenant, saw the wisdom of submitting to the latter's discipline, and made all his people submit.

The night after the unhappy circumstance we have related, in the bar-room of a Broadway hotel, in New York city, a colonel of volunteers, moustached and uniformed, and evidently in a very unmilitary condition of unsteadiness, was entertaining a group of convivial acquaintances, with bacchanalian exercises and martian gossip.

34 examples of  unmilitary  in sentences