"Do you mean," I asked at last, "that you would be outranked by every subaltern in the service who holds a royal commission?" "Unquestionably," and Washington looked away across the fields with a stern face.

But during the first five months of the war most of the infantry subalterns of the new armies "had to train themselves as best they could in the intervals of training their men.

expostulates a very young subaltern on Dick's left.

The Arch-inquisitor of Spain, shortly after his accession to the office, summoned the subalterns from their stations to meet him at Seville, and framed, with them, a set of instructions for uniform administration.

Why not offer prizes to the Tommy with the biggest biceps, the Subaltern with the thickest calf, and the Brigadier with the finest abdominal development?

No Woolwich and sweating as a snubbed subaltern for him!

There are portraits hung there of famous members of that mess who were thought of no particular account when they were subalterns at Chatham.

The Mess may make use of the kitchen; the spare bed is at the Skipper's disposal; the cow will move up and make room for the First Mate; the pig will be only too happy to welcome the Subalterns to its modest abode.

but I imagine the subaltern among his equals displays just as much reverence for his elders and betters as our own boys do.

He, however, artfully excused himself on the plea of holding no official appointment and his long retirement from the political world; while he weakened the resolution of the subalterns by the scruples which he suggested and painted in the strongest colors.

I might serve for twenty years, and at the end of it the youngest subaltern out of Sandhurst, with a moustache he can't feel upon his lip, would in case of war step over my head and command me.

The long, arduous, and faithful military services in which President Harrison has been engaged since the first settlement of the Western country, from the rank of a subaltern to that of a commander in chief, are too well known to require a recital of them here.

Upon a strict Calculation, it is found that there has been a great Exceeding of late Years in the Second Division, several Brevets having been granted for the converting of Subalterns into Scarf-Officers; insomuch that within my Memory the price of Lute-string is raised above two Pence in a Yard.

"Young Osborne, my best subaltern after Angus, disappeared last month to join it.