48 Verbs to Use for the Word civilian

The investigations made, in especial the hearing under oath of private Rössner and several officers in his regiment, have resulted in the following particulars being obtained: At the beginning of the campaign as the troops marched into a villagename unknownthey saw by the roadside two or three dead civilians.

At a later stage, however, it became evident that the proposal was more far reaching and that the underlying idea was to place a civilian in charge of naval material generally and of all shipbuilding, both naval and mercantile.

On October 11 two German aviators dropped a score of bombs on different quarters of Paris, killing three civilians and injuring fourteen others.

"Perhaps not," agreed Hepson, "though you must understand that the charge of assaulting civilians is not a light matter.

"Just as I was leaving the fort I saw seven or eight Belgian civilians guarded by our men with fixed bayonets.

The Germans had fought here, first with organized troops of the Allies, and later, by their own telling, with bushwhacking civilians.

An officer, who had rushed down at the heels of the brawlers, thrust his hands in to catch the civilian by the throat, but he whipped them back again with an oath as the man's strong white teeth met in his left thumb.

But we did not chafe, civilians though we were.

Some officers dashed up to Herve in a car, challenged two civilians while crossing the bridge and, without giving them time to answer, shot them down with revolvers.

The camp contains 45 Ottoman civilians of military age, and 24 others; the latter are all elderly men, or have been exempted from military service owing to illness.

A brief survey of the country to be attacked would convince even a civilian of the extreme difficulties of the undertaking.

At the apex stand covenanted civilians; whose service is now practically a close preserve for white men.

Another important factor to be borne in mind is the hysterical, morbid self-importance of the German nation in general, which causes police and members of the German army to shoot or cut down with the sword their own civilians for the most trivial offences, even in times of peace.

Yet these brave men, who hate peace and despise civilians, have many human qualities.

Evidently Congress did not take women and children and disabled civilians under the protecting wing of its indignation.

Chilling instructions came that he might employ civilians in fatigue and police duty, and that he might send his proposed party of laborers to Castle Pinckney.

"De Blavincourt, it appeared, had been at work all the morning evacuating unfortunate civilians from the cellars.

"That flyer at whom our guns were firing a while ago dropped this," explained the civilian.

In the forts, it is true, they found among the soldiers also civilians wearing patent-leather shoes.

" "One ought to know lots of women," said Mr. Ryfe, assuming the air of a fine gentleman, which fitted him, thought Lord Bearwarden, as ill as his uniform generally fits a civilian.

Of the French especially it would appear that their writers have noticed only those like Dupleix, Bussy, and Lally, who commanded armies in glorious campaigns that somehow always ended to the advantage of the British, and have utterly forgotten the civilians who really kept the game going, and who would have been twice as formidable to their enemies if the military had been subordinate to them.

A number of dark-featured, glowering civilians sat at a table almost opposite to myself, men who by their attire and sombre looks appeared to be unsuited to the banquet atmosphere, and out of place amongst the gorgeous uniforms of Cossack Atamans and Russian generals.

The German Government has published a White Book (328 quarto pages) during the summer, 1915, indicting Belgian civilians with all kinds of atrocities.

It is not generally known that Deputy Cohn, speaking in the Reichstag on April 8, 1916, sharply criticised the method of interning British civilians at Ruhleben.

With Cromwell, in the place of lord president, were joined four civilians and eight officers of high rank; so that the army still retained its ascendancy, and the council of state became in fact a military council.

48 Verbs to Use for the Word  civilian