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Sentences ending with officer

The passionate tenderness with which his mother received him did not please the sixteen-year-old officer. [2]
I judged it wasn't so, but it was not for me to contradict a general officer. [5]
The Grand Duke was dressed in the handsome and showy uniform of a Cossack officer. [5]
Mr. Temple was to have come to the city to-night with an officer. [9]
In spite of this he was placed that day with the other arrested suspects, as the separate room he had occupied was required by an officer. [2]
The chief of the Jain delegation read his paper of congratulations, then pushed it into a beautifully engraved silver cylinder, which was delivered with ceremony into the prince's hands and at once delivered by him without ceremony into the hands of an officer. [5]
I was visiting the grave of a young French officer. [11]
To carry on the figure, Philip Goodrich might have been deemed her first officer. [9]
Pierre standing beside the commanding officer. [2]
He also had that social aplomb so much a characteristic of the naval officer. [11]

Short sentences using officer

This officer was Savary. [2]
The officer was Petya Rostov. [2]
Come forward, Officer O'Flannigan. [5]
And he an officer now! [9]
The officer admired it. [2]
The officer raised his glass. [11]
I'm still an artillery officer. [11]
A French officer approached us. [9]
He is temporarily an officer. [9]
He sent for an officer. [2]

Sentences containing officer two or more times

A third officer, who by his accent was a Pole, disputed with the commissariat officer, arguing that he was mistaken in his identification of the different wards of Moscow. [2]
Four days ago this gallant young officer had taken risk for him, had saved him from injury, perhaps death; to-day the spear meant for him had stricken down this same young officer, never to rise again. [11]
Behind Prince Bagration rode an officer of the suite, the prince's personal adjutant, Zherkov, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian--an accountant who had asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity. [2]
The officer pounced on the soldiers who were in the shops, but at that moment fearful screams reached them from the huge crowd on the Moskva bridge and the officer ran out into the square. [2]
When Eykhen, the officer of the general staff whom he had summoned, appeared, Kutuzov went purple in the face, not because that officer was to blame for the mistake, but because he was an object of sufficient importance for him to vent his wrath on. [2]
He was an officer in the French army, and he offered to make me an officer also and pay me well in French Government money, if I would break my allegiance and serve the French cause--Ah, don't start! [11]
Prince Andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer Tushin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes from Prince Andrew to the staff officer. [2]
You'll be coming in with an officer and a requisition in plain clothes--the officer, I mean--the minute you see him arrive and open up a talk with me. [5]
We had not, however, gone a half dozen paces in the entrance hall when there were quick steps behind, and four soldiers came towards us, with an officer at their head--an officer whom I had seen in the chamber, but did not recognize. [11]

More example sentences with the word officer in them

Every officer of your ship was the Church's picked servant, and so was every man of the crew. [5]
Indeed, an audacious young praetorian had put out his hand to pull away her veil, but an older officer stopped him. [10]
I recognized the young officer who had put a hand upon Alixe. [11]
Even as the young officer who brought the letter handed it to De la Foret in the little house on the hill-side above Rozel Bay, he was taken suddenly ill, and fell at the Camisard's feet. [11]
She caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and fear appeared on her flushed face. [2]
There was a young naval officer in full dress, gold-buckled shoes, white trousers, short jacket with gold swab on shoulders, dress-sword and smart gait making for supper at King's House. [11]
But aw'll have ye to-night as a man, and aw'll have ye to-night as a King's officer, or aw'll go damned to hell. [11]
Pretty Elspet Zohrer, with whom she had contended for the recruiting officer, Pyramus Kogel, was standing opposite to her, by her partner's side, in the same row with charming little Mietz Schiltl, Anne Mirl Woller, her cousin, Marg Thun, and the others. [10]
He bore it with unflinching fortitude; then took the rusty-looking document and handed it to some great officer or other, to be filed away among the archives of Russia--in the stove. [5]
Indeed, it was with this plain statement of the facts that the second military officer of the duchy had some days before been sent to the Court of St. James to secure its intervention for Philip's freedom by exchange of prisoners. [11]
Zdrzhinski, the officer with the long mustache, spoke grandiloquently of the Saltanov dam being "a Russian Thermopylae," and of how a deed worthy of antiquity had been performed by General Raevski. [2]
The officer, Timokhin, with his red little nose, standing on the dam wiping himself with a towel, felt confused at seeing the prince, but made up his mind to address him nevertheless. [2]
The young officer, with his face still more flushed, commanded the men more scrupulously than ever. [2]
Ermolov came forward with a frown on his face and, hearing what the officer had to say, took the papers from him without a word. [2]
A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant as he rode by. [2]
I don't see why an officer should get two thousand five hundred times as much as a seaman. [11]
Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others. [7]
An elderly sergeant who had approached the officer while he was giving these explanations had waited in silence for him to finish speaking, but at this point, evidently not liking the officer's remark, interrupted him. [2]
The cart in which the officer lay was turned into the Rostovs' yard, and dozens of carts with wounded men began at the invitation of the townsfolk to turn into the yards and to draw up at the entrances of the houses in Povarskaya Street. [2]
The arrangement adopted when they started, that the officer prisoners should be kept separate from the rest, had long since been abandoned. [2]
The next morning, when the market was crowded, the officer might commence his negotiations afresh, if the Regent insisted on his plan. [10]
Presently the doors were thrown open, two halberdiers stepped inside, and an officer of the Court announced Admiral his Serene Highness Prince Philip d'Avranche, Duc de Bercy. [11]
He and Virginia were shown into the bare military room of the commanding officer, and thither presently came Captain Lyon himself. [9]
The officer prisoners were separated from the soldiers and told to march in front. [2]
After tea we went to look up Dr. Wilson, chief medical officer of the hospitals in the place, who was staying at the Brady House. [6]
A Government officer went languidly by in full uniform--even the Governor wore uniform at all times to encourage respect--and the cafes were filling. [11]
And for once we saw an officer of the Louisiana Regiment resplendent in a uniform that might have served at court. [9]
No sooner had we made fast than we were boarded by a shabby customs officer who, when he had seen our passports, bowed politely and invited us to land. [9]
Many a time we had discussed the pitcher and the deed, and fingered the linen, now talking in French, now in English; for in France, years before, he had been a valet to an English officer at King Louis's court. [11]
The sergeant's reply was: "Sire, how can a non-commissioned officer dine with a general? [11]
The officer who was to prepare the fire was there first, and prepared it. [5]
His one desire was to know what was happening and at any cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, an exemplary officer of twenty-two years' service, who had never been censured, should not be held to blame. [2]
Among them, however, was the commanding officer, who, foaming with rage and only slightly wounded, put himself at the head of the remainder of Bent-Anat's body-guard, ordered the escort of the prisoners also to follow him, and once more advanced into the oasis. [10]
A general who was standing by the guns shouted some words of command to the officer, and the latter ran back again with his men. [2]
While Mavra Kuzminichna was running to her room the officer walked about the yard gazing at his worn-out boots with lowered head and a faint smile on his lips. [2]
I said it was quite right to officer that regiment with nobilities, and he couldn't have done a wiser thing. [5]
Only Count Rostov was pleased with them as he had been pleased with those of the naval officer, the senator, and in general with whatever speech he had last heard. [2]
The young officer was handsome and attractive enough, and her granddaughter after all was but a woman. [10]
The officer, who was greatly impressed by the gentleman's looks, led him at once to a trestle bridge which spanned the distance from the levee bank over the flood to a house up to its first floor in the backwaters. [9]
The first officer was excited, the lascars were dazed, the stewards were hurried without being confident; only Hungerford, Stone, and the gunner were collected. [11]
The young officer was evidently exercising his duties for the first or second time and therefore treated both his superiors and the men with great precision and formality. [2]
The recruiting officer was certainly a handsome man and, moreover, of noble birth. [10]
Among the men was an Italian prisoner, an officer of the French army; and Nicholas felt that the presence of that prisoner enhanced his own importance as a Russian hero. [2]
Now that he was already an officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on himself? [2]
Among his companions was a young French officer and an eccentric, garrulous doctor from America. [4]
After all, Macrinus was a capable, serviceable officer, and easier to deal with than the Romans of the old noble families. [10]
This officer began visiting Pierre, and the princess used to make fun of the tenderness the Italian expressed for him. [2]
At length a veteran officer spelled it over deliberately and shook his head three or four times and said that in his opinion it was seditious. [5]
The officer, a very young lad with a broad rosy face and keen merry eyes, galloped up to Denisov and handed him a sodden envelope. [2]
The bridle-rein hung upon the wrist of the notary's palsied left hand, and in his right hand he carried the long sabre of an artillery officer, which he had picked up on the battlefield. [11]
We were fired upon by match-lockmen, and one officer was shot dead. [5]
The officer picked up Valmond's pistol. [11]
The sergeant ran up to the officer and in a frightened whisper informed him (as a butler at dinner informs his master that there is no more of some wine asked for) that there were no more charges. [2]
So he summoned up his courage, and, with a "What I was going to say," began to speak of the admirable officer whom he had brought into his house. [10]
An officer came up and held out a hand to him. [11]
An officer picked up a few curls, preserved in a bit of cardboard, and marked 'Ned's hair, with love'; but around were strewn locks, some near a yard in length, dissevered, not as a keepsake, by quite other scissors. [5]
When the officer undertook to serve the writ of habeas corpus, General Jackson took it from him, and sent him away with a copy. [7]
Then we were under it, for the river was low, and the dingy-uniformed officer was bowing over our passports beneath the awning. [9]
A factor of twenty years before, in recognition of the chief's merits and in reward of his services, had presented him with a pair of epaulettes, left in the Fort by some officer in Her Majesty's service. [11]
In their terror, twenty brave rebels of two hours ago were to be captured by a single British officer of infantry speaking bad French. [11]
Besides, she was troubled about the information which the recruiting officer might give her concerning her father. [10]
Then there came towards him an officer, who said quietly, "The tide has turned, sir. [11]
The officer contemptuously tossed it back, and now, a little more courteous, ordered me against the wall, and I let my cloak fall to the ground. [11]
Seeing that he took up so little space, I could believe the story, then, that ten thousand troops went to St. Peter's, once, to hear mass, and their commanding officer came afterward, and not finding them, supposed they had not yet arrived. [5]
Jeff Thompson afterwards told Philip that he once asked Senator Atchison, then acting Vice-President: of the United States, about the possibility of acclimation; he thought the opinion of the second officer of our great government would be, valuable on this point. [5]
The first officer told me that the Flora was privileged to carry 125 passengers. [5]
A British officer told me that in India he paid his servant 10 rupees a month, and he had 11 cousins, uncles, parents, etc., dependent upon him, and he supported them on his wages. [5]
We do not to-day know that a colored soldier, or white officer commanding colored soldiers, has been massacred by the rebels when made a prisoner. [7]
He gave thanks to the Returning Officer, and then, with his agent, left the building by the back door. [11]
Prince Bagration turned to the officer and with his dull eyes looked at him in silence. [2]
He drew himself to the gratings, grasping them with his hands, and looking out through them, sat waiting till the officer was passing once more, and then said: "Sweetness, you'd better mind your eye, now, because you beats have killed this cuss. [5]
Go that way, to that village, all the commanders are there," said the officer, pointing to the village of Hosjeradek, and he walked on. [2]
I should like to tell you, first of all, that this officer defended your cousin and asked me to pardon him. [9]
An officer asked to see the artist. [10]
He gained permission to see him, in the presence of an officer, during the day, and he found that hero very much cast down. [5]
It is safe to say that Lafarge was a less sincere if not a less blameless customs officer from this time forth. [11]
He had written to Mavick after the newspaper report that that government officer had been in the city on Henderson's affairs, and had received a very civil and unsatisfactory reply. [4]
That officer had to hurry to keep up with the as I walked to the wharf. [9]
With a view to ascertain this, the subject was referred to a commission of the United States and French naval officers at New York, with a naval officer of Italy as an arbiter. [7]
The back belonged to a, gentleman who was energetically climbing the embankment in front of him, on the top of which Major Sexton, a regular, army officer, sat his horse. [9]
Dolokhov, running beside Timokhin, killed a Frenchman at close quarters and was the first to seize the surrendering French officer by his collar. [2]
Two or three times, at intervals, the officer asked me if I had anything dutiable about me, and seemed more and more put out and disappointed every time I told him no. [5]
At the same time that he refused the colonel's demand he made up his mind that he must have recourse to artifice when leaving Orel, to induce the Italian officer to accept some money of which he was evidently in need. [2]
In no long time he was hailed by an officer, who said: "Where are you going with that carcass? [5]
The officer searched till six o'clock in the evening without even stopping to eat. [2]
It was not till nearly evening that the officer commanding the escort collected his men and with shouts and quarrels forced his way in among the baggage trains, and the prisoners, hemmed in on all sides, emerged onto the Kaluga road. [2]
The draft for three years' service to go on in any State or district where the quota is not filled up; but if any officer or soldier in this special service should be drafted, he shall be credited for the service rendered. [7]
But the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as possible. [2]
Hendon, always alert, thought he would like to know why the officer followed the woman out; so he slipped softly into the dusky hall and listened. [5]
A minority of those present were casual guests--chiefly young men, among whom were Denisov, Rostov, and Dolokhov--who was now again an officer in the Semenov regiment. [2]
We can't stop those fellows," said the staff officer pointing to the soldiers. [2]
The officer believed this strange traveller, jumped out of the carriage, flourishing his scourge and calling to his men: "This nobleman has come on purpose to prove Bartja's innocence, and must be taken to the king at once. [10]
You will exhibit this order to any naval officer at Pensacola, if you deem it necessary, after you have established yourself within the harbor, and will request co-operation by the entrance of at least one other steamer. [7]
He had met this officer of Rullecour's these ten years past, and never once had the Frenchman, by so much as a hint, suggested that he knew the truth about his father. [11]
But who is this officer breaking his sword to bits against the fence, rather than surrender it to a Yankee? [9]
Didn't I say they'd make an officer of you when they found out what brains you had? [11]
As soon as they were discharged from captivity they would go straight and get drunk, and then steal some trifling thing while an officer was observing them. [5]
When Gorgias entered, these magistrates, their clerks, and the witnesses accompanying them--a group of twenty men, at whose head was Apollonius, a distinguished officer of the royal treasury--were in the house. [10]
In the window there was the uniform of an officer of the time of Wellington, and beside it--the leather coat and fur cap of a trapper of the Hudson's Bay Company! [11]
During the war there came to Hawkeye a confederate officer, Col. Selby, who was stationed there for a time, in command of that district. [5]

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