While waiting for supplies we received a new commanding officer, Brevet Major-General E.A. Carr, who was the senior major of the regiment, and who ranked Colonel Royal.

" "It was the major in logic we were making free with," Jack mumbled, laughing.

HeVinhad three horses killed, and was made a major on the field by General Joe Johnston.

We found the two majors at home upon whom Colonel Forestier counted.

His first advent into the majors with the White Sox showed him to be an exceedingly promising player, but for some reason his work fell off until he was discarded into the International League.

When at last the town was clear of them, Arthur, who was considerably battered and bruised but pleased with the triumphant ending of the adventure, drove the girls and the major to the farm.

But we won't bore the Major by four solid days of railway travel.

Presently Wampus asked the Major for his revolver, and on obtaining the weapon he walked a few paces toward the coyotes and fired a shot into their group.

It had been a busy week; so much so, indeed, as to prevent the major from holding any of that confidential intercourse with his mother and sisters, in which it had been his habit to indulge in former visits.

It was a source of much satisfaction to lug the Major over the farm and prove to him how wise Mr. Merrick had been in deciding to spend the summer on his own property; and the Major freely acknowledged that he had been in error and the place was as charming as anyone could wish.

When a single organization furnishes the guard, a roster of organizations will be kept by the sergeant major under the supervision of the adjutant.

The sergeant-major before whom, in the first instance, the charge was brought, was both unable and unwilling to give it credence.

And when a man like Fichte, whom Carlyle characterizes as "that cold, colossal, adamantine spirit, standing erect like a Cato Major among degenerate men; fit to have been the teacher of the Stoa, and to have discoursed of beauty and virtue in the groves of Academe," declares that no measure of evil results from truth-speaking would induce him to tell a lie, a certain moral weight attaches to his testimony.

"They've got a wonderful smart man there for a magistrate, I can tell you," added Joel, with emphasis, "and he ra'ally bore as hard on the major as a lawyer before a court.

Still, no one becomes a Town-Major without some sort of claim to the post.

I say, I talk with trees for this reason,because their wisdom is so much greater than that of my ordinary acquaintances,and further, (to put the major after the minor premise,) because they are virtually living beings, endowed with instinct, feeling, reason, and display every essential attribute of sentient creatures,in fact, because they have souls as well as men, only they are clothed in vegetable flesh.

The looks are bent on the shaking ground, And the heart beats loud with a knelling sound; Swift by the breasts that must bear the brunt, Gallops the Major along the front "Halt!" And fetter'd they stand at the stark command, And the warriors, silent, halt!

He took the major into the bed-room, however, and held a minute's private discourse, when he returned, and bade the two go forth together.

there was a painful shrinking and twitching, which the surgeon greeted as evidence of returning animation, but which made him almost drag the Major out of the room for fear of immediate consequences.

We recruit more drum-majors than prime ministers from among these people.

He had announced his intention to send the Tuscarora ahead to reconnoitre, then to force himself among the bushes between the lean-to and the rocks, and there to open a communication with the major through the chinks of the logs After receiving Nick's intelligence, his plan was to be governed by circumstances, and to act accordingly.

"I am going to see the Town Major about a billeting area.