The son of a nobleman is gazetted, as a cornet in a regiment, and all his friends rejoice.

While the general was thus busily employed among the Carthaginians, and the captains of the respective nations among their countrymen, most of them employing interpreters among troops intermixed with those of different nations, the trumpets and cornets of the Romans sounded; and such a clamor arose that the elephants, especially those in the left wing, turned round upon their own party, the Moors and Numidians.

I would forgive him, if he did not know a cornet from an ensign, I would forgive him, if he thought Italy a province of Asia Minor.

CORNETS Spurgeon was once asked if the man who learned to play a cornet on Sunday would go to heaven.

Where, except in England, can you hear that delightful combination of harp and cornet outside a house of refreshment?