126 Verbs to Use for the Word lieutenant

Halting with a grand flourish in front of his tent, Major Brown jumped out in his most gallant style and politely asked his lieutenant in.

You can always tell a lieutenant by the bar.

But he was a weak man, and delayed so long in attacking another body near Heraclea, that when he sent a lieutenant to attack them with 600 men they were strong enough to beat him.

On the day that this officer was to arrive, Major Brown had his private ambulance brought out, and invited me to accompany him to the railroad station to meet his lieutenant, whose name was A.B. Bache.

One said: "'I thought she would marry the English lieutenant.'

As the tribunes named the centurions, so the centurions appointed their lieutenants, who were called sub-centurions.

If she had loved the lieutenant, it was perfectly right; yet he could not crush her image out of his heart.

"Many a one who has never voted for any other party than the Social Democrats has exclaimed: 'Lieutenants!

"Advance cautiously in single file," ordered the lieutenant.

In 1862 Mr. Stuart enlisted in the Eighth regiment and served for three years, returning home a lieutenant.

"À votre, Madame," replied her Lieutenant, quaffing the whole issue in one motion.

And in Blaise he found an active and devoted lieutenant, on whom he each day cast more and more of the heavier work.

Crossing the mountains that divided them from the beaten and despairing people of the tidewater region, they killed the ablest lieutenant of the British commander, and at a single stroke undid all that he had done.

"There are certain to be three vacancies in the Naval Academy," remarked the lieutenant.

"What have you done with the prize-crew put on board you from the Speedy, the other day?" called out the lieutenant.

"For God's sake, Captain Wallingford, knock off with this, if you please;" cried the lieutenant, with a most imploring sort of civility of manner."You see how it is; we can barely keep the boat from swamping, with the number we have in her; and a dozen times during the night I thought the ship would drag her under.

I leaned over the edge of my bunk, and looked down on Haley, half resolved to ask if he had ever noticed this lieutenant, but the man was already sound asleep.

Antony and Lepidus left lieutenants in Gaul and themselves proceeded to join Caesar in Italy, taking with them the larger and the better part of their armies.

The captain may direct the lieutenants to accompany or assist him, in which case they return saber and, at the close of the inspection, resume their posts in front of the company, draw and carry saber.

" "What countryman are you?" demanded the lieutenant, with a menacing look.

"Oh, my dear little mamma," writes a young lieutenant of artillery, "it would be nice to be in my own room again, where your picture hangs over my bed looking down on the white pillows upon which you used to make the sign of the Cross before I went to sleep.

The steward was told to set a plate for Mr. Griffin among the other guests, and then the commander of the frigate followed the lieutenant on deck.

So when Kincaid and Irby introduced a naval lieutenant whose amazingly swift despatch-boat was bound on a short errand a bend or so below English Turn, it was agreed with him in a twinklinga few twinklings, mainly Miranda'sto dismiss horses, take the trip, and on the return be set ashore at Camp Callender by early moonlight.

Having in the meantime assembled the lieutenants and military tribunes, he told them both what he had learnt from Volusenus, and what he wished to be done; and enjoined them (as the principle of military matters, and especially as maritime affairs, which have a precipitate and uncertain action, required) that all things should be performed by them at a nod and at the instant.

"Haul back!" commanded the lieutenant sternly.

126 Verbs to Use for the Word  lieutenant