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Sentences starting with officers

Officers are nothing when they have no powers; this one had none.... [2]
Officers and privates were acted on by the force known as Sergeant Fones. [11]
Officers of the regular army did not want this service--away off there where neither honor nor distinction was to be gained. [5]
Officers O'Flannigan and O'Flaherty, witnesses. [5]
Officers who approached him with disturbed countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display their courage before him. [2]
Officers of the Federal army and navy had resigned in great numbers; and of those resigning a large proportion had taken up arms against the government. [7]
Officers in uniform, citizens in plain dress, matrons and maids in the habits that they wore when living, or in the white robes of the grave. [4]
Officers fared little better than men. [11]
Officers and men alike were in a fury of determination and vengeance. [11]

Sentences ending with officers

There are some who, in storming a castle, prefer to be in the rear; but as for me, give me the front or none; I will have none in front of me but the officers. [5]
And the Tsarevich was very gracious to all our officers. [2]
A prisoner's guard was resting outside, and the hall was full of officers. [9]
He seemed to try to forget that old life and was only interested in the affair with the commissariat officers. [2]
He turned again towards the officers. [11]
He never sought to make friends, had a thorough contempt for social trifling, and shrugged his shoulders at the "swagger" of some of the other officers. [11]
The case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the officers. [2]
I know all the officers. [5]
You remember that the Duke said his dandy officers were his best officers. [6]
At last, from the Chateau came the Marquis de Vaudreuil, Bigot, and a number of officers. [11]

Short sentences using officers

The officers were whispering together. [2]
The white officers were shot. [7]
So are their officers. [9]
It was full of officers. [2]
Give the officers a chance. [11]
The officers rose. [2]

Sentences containing officers two or more times

The Cossack officers wished to take advantage of this chance to capture some horses, but one of the superior officers, who was acquainted with the higher authorities, reported the incident to a general on the staff. [2]
The view I take, I believe, is the Common law principle, as to retiring officers and their successors, to which I remember but one exception, which is the case of Sheriff and ministerial officers of that class. [7]
I never could quite understand it, nor could any officers ever tell me--the fo'castle for the men and the quarter-deck for the officers, and what's English to one is Greek to the other. [11]
All sorts of people were coming and going, army officers and navy officers and citizens of states and territories, driving up and driving away. [9]
When they're out on a country like this, they let their officers loose--their officers and men. [11]
Collector General, Custom-house Officers and Officers of the Customs. [5]
The field officers of a regiment in the State militia are one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, and one major, and the company officers are a captain, a first lieutenant, and a second lieutenant. [7]
They were going into a tiny recess behind a partition to change, but found it completely filled by three officers who sat playing cards by the light of a solitary candle on an empty box, and these officers would on no account yield their position. [2]
And I do hereby require and command, as well as military officers, all civil officers and authorities existing or found within the said State of Kentucky, to take notice of this proclamation and to give full effect to the same. [7]

More example sentences with the word officers in them

Many thanks to yourself, officers, and men for the gallant battle of last Sunday. [7]
I commend to your consideration the suggestions of the Secretary of the Navy in regard to the policy of fostering and training seamen and also the education of officers and engineers for the naval service. [7]
Some of the younger officers who were there, laughed as they followed his retreating figure. [9]
These were adventurous young gentlemen of family, some of them lawyers and some of them late officers in the Continental army who had been rewarded with grants of land. [9]
I tender to you, officers and soldiers, the thanks of the nation. [7]
I only ask you, at the conclusion of these few remarks, to give three hearty cheers for all good and brave officers and men who fought those successful battles. [7]
That each of you will, in his sphere, do all he can to have the officers, soldiers, and seamen of the army and navy, while engaged in the effort to suppress the rebellion, paid, fed, clad, and otherwise well provided for and supported. [7]
I propose that you constantly bear in mind that the support you owe to the brave officers and soldiers in the field is of the very first importance, and we should therefore bend all our energies to that point. [7]
Now without detaining you any longer, I propose that you help me to close up what I am now saying with three rousing cheers for General Grant and the officers and soldiers under his command. [7]
Nearly a hundred years ago the crew of the British ship Bounty mutinied, set the captain and his officers adrift upon the open sea, took possession of the ship, and sailed southward. [5]
Even the policemen wore happy smiles, and in some instances the election officers themselves in absent-minded exuberance thrust bunches of ballots into the boxes! [9]
For hours Philip's witnesses were examined, among them the officers of his duchy and Count Carignan Damour. [11]
I "met up" with that charming Colonel Chapman, and other officers of the regiment, and had a good time. [5]
The officers gazed with surprise at Pierre's huge stout figure and listened to his talk of Moscow and the position of our army, round which he had ridden. [2]
Only recently, talking with one of Platov's Cossack officers, Rostov had argued that if Napoleon were taken prisoner he would be treated not as a sovereign, but as a criminal. [2]
He was treated with marked courtesy by the captain and with marked deference by all the officers and servants; and this deferential spirit was quickly communicated to the passengers, too. [5]
He was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when he heard some French spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, addressing first one, then another. [2]
Two officers, one with a scarf over his uniform and mounted on a lean, dark-gray horse, the other in an overcoat and on foot, stood at the corner of Ilyinka Street, talking. [2]
The military officers will not object, they know how big a man he is, and they have had enough. [11]
Such general officers will be supplied as the exigencies of the service will permit. [7]
Whether our citizens, whose blood was shed, as in his message declared, were or were not, at that time, armed officers and soldiers, sent into that settlement by the military order of the President, through the Secretary of War. [7]
The few inhabitants who had remained invited commanding officers to their houses, hoping thereby to secure themselves from being plundered. [2]
The Continental officers who fought in the East have half-pay for life or five years' full pay. [9]
In the hut which the men had passed, the chief officers had gathered and were in animated talk over their tea about the events of the day and the maneuvers suggested for tomorrow. [2]
The Assembly to which many of these gentlemen belonged was in a righteous state of opposition to the Proprietary and the Council concerning the emoluments of colonial officers and of clergymen. [9]
To Mr. Brinsmade's, when the day's duty was done, the young Union officers used to ride, and often there would be half a dozen of them to tea. [9]
Customs officers who were watching the craft from the shore or from their boats put down their marine glasses contentedly when they saw and heard the salutes. [11]
Those tax officers were moved; they were profoundly moved. [5]
And their officers were equally happy. [9]
Stores of wood were brought for the night, shelters were rigged up for the officers, caldrons were being boiled, and muskets and accouterments put in order. [2]
The new officers were "emigrants," and that was no title to anybody's affection or admiration either. [5]
At the mess-house we found all the officers assembled, together with sixty sepoys, who had remained faithful. [5]
In his wild way, Robert--with Jock Lawson--determined to rescue a young man from the officers of justice, and to get him out of the country. [11]
Nobody knew which was the higher office; so Lyman had to settle the matter by making the rank of both officers equal. [5]
The Colonel's lady was taken in charge by a daughter of that hospitable family to which we had been commended by its head, and I proceeded to inquire for wounded officers at the various temporary hospitals. [6]
The left wing was occupied by the officers of the household, the innumerable servants and the horses and chariots of the sovereign. [10]
But the boat was not more than a day out of New Orleans before Stephen discovered that the captain was boasting of his exploit, and that all the officers had been told. [5]
By nature he was insolent, but under the system of control pursued by the officers of the Ariadne, previous to the mutiny, he had not been able to do much. [11]
Mine you, I was down on sich doin's; beca'se my place was wid de officers, an' it rasp me to have dem common sojers cavortin' roun' in my kitchen like dat. [5]
And while he was doing M. de Beausset the honor of breakfasting with him, they heard, as Napoleon had anticipated, the rapturous cries of the officers and men of the Old Guard who had run up to see the portrait. [2]
After breakfast he was conducted, with regal ceremony, attended by his great officers and his guard of fifty Gentlemen Pensioners bearing gilt battle-axes, to the throne-room, where he proceeded to transact business of state. [5]
When the death-moment was come, the colonel and his officers took their several posts, the men stood at shoulder-arms, and so, as on dress-parade, with their flag flying and the drums beating, they went down, a sacrifice to duty for duty's sake. [5]
In the French war, when all the rest of us Royal Americans were squabbling with his Majesty's officers out of England, and cursing them at mess, they could never be got to fight with Jack, tho' he gave them ample provocation. [9]
The Secretary of War will make such general orders or regulations as will insure the proper observance and execution of,, this order, and the Secretary of the Navy will give instructions to officers commanding fleets, flotillas, and gunboats in conformity therewith. [7]
I deplore the want of concurrence with you in opinion by your general officers, but I do not see the remedy. [7]
The Emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of the officers as he went: "Have these gentlemen attended to and taken to my bivouac; let my doctor, Larrey, examine their wounds. [2]
Even the Moslem viceroy, the great general Amru, came over from the other side of the Nile, with his chief military and civil officers, to pay the last honors to the just and revered governor. [10]
The officers, as usual, lived in twos and threes in the roofless, half-ruined houses. [2]
We had found upon the train from New York a lovely, lonely lady, the wife of one of our most spirited Massachusetts officers, the brave Colonel of the __th Regiment, going to seek her wounded husband at Middletown, a place lying directly in our track. [6]
The pioneer went up to the table, where sat the general of the troops that had just returned victorious from Ethiopia, and several other officers of high rank, There was a place vacant next to the general. [10]
Gumbert gave himself up to the officers of justice, and was shortly after discharged by Justice Atwill, on his own recognizance, to appear for trial at six o'clock in the evening. [5]
Several officers ran up to him. [2]
The officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, and moved along the ranks shouting. [2]
Rostov was therefore unpleasantly struck by the presence of French officers in Boris' lodging, dressed in uniforms he had been accustomed to see from quite a different point of view from the outposts of the flank. [2]
So de big Union officers move in dah, an' dey ask me would I cook for dem. [5]
These notes, prepared under the supervision of proper officers, being uniform in appearance and security and convertible always into coin, would at once protect labor against the evils of a vicious currency and facilitate commerce by cheap and safe exchanges. [7]
One of the unavoidable consequences of the present insurrection is the entire suppression in many places of all the ordinary means of administering civil justice by the officers and in the forms of existing law. [7]
In our regiment two officers were court-martialed for that kind of thing. [2]
The lieutenant colonel turned to a smart orderly, who, with the peculiar contempt with which a commander in chief's orderly speaks to officers, replied: "What? [2]
The United States tried to rectify all that by appointing territorial officers from New England and other anti-Mormon localities, but Brigham prepared to make their entrance into his dominions difficult. [5]
In the muddy trenches of Flanders and France a new comradeship has sprung up between officers and Tommies, while time-honoured precedent has been broken by the necessity of giving thousands of commissions to men of merit who do not belong to the "officer caste. [9]
I could have told those officers that they had better not bother him. [6]
We had General Todtleben (the famous defender of Sebastopol, during the siege,) and many inferior army and also navy officers, and a number of unofficial Russian ladies and gentlemen. [5]
Two months salary to you two officers amounts altogether to $2,400--about one-eighth of your ten per cent. [5]
I am grateful to the State of Ohio for many things, especially for the brave soldiers and officers she has given in the present national trial to the armies of the Union. [7]
The large addition to the regular army, in connection with the defection that has so considerably diminished the number of its officers, gives peculiar importance to his recommendation for increasing the corps of cadets to the greatest capacity of the Military Academy. [7]
The Bailly whispered to the Governor, the Governor to his aide, and the aide sought the naval officers present; but these could give no explanation of the delay. [11]
The colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having his own way, gave an order. [2]
Some were trying to strike her, and the officers were not taking as much trouble as they might to keep them from it. [5]
I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the Union and liberties of their country from the beginning of the war. [7]
For his omission to perform his whole duty on that occasion, and the injury thereby inflicted on the service and the country, his name was stricken from the list of naval officers and he was dismissed [from] the service. [7]
What is necessary to now say about officers you will judge. [7]
I must beg to move that they be dropped at once, and that we elect a chairman of the meeting and proper officers to assist him, and then we can go on with the business before us understandingly. [5]
Several officers came to meet it, and Captain Ortis, approaching close to the Eletto, said: "The bishop refuses the catafalque and the solemn requiem you requested. [10]
Mr. Bixby, unknown to me, of course, sent somebody down to the forecastle with some mysterious instructions to the leadsmen, another messenger was sent to whisper among the officers, and then Mr. Bixby went into hiding behind a smoke-stack where he could observe results. [5]
If we had to keep the sun kindled up and going by private corporate action, or act of Congress, and to be taxed for the support of customs officers of solar heat, we should prize it more than we do. [4]
Macrinus then proceeded to inform the higher and lower officers of the course of action he had agreed upon with the emperor and Zminis. [10]
He carried close to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. [2]
And in response to his appeals, despite the presence of officers of higher rank, the President had given Captain Nathaniel Lyon supreme command in Missouri. [9]
Rostov was horrified to hear later that of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. [2]
It was impossible to give battle before information had been collected, the wounded gathered in, the supplies of ammunition replenished, the slain reckoned up, new officers appointed to replace those who had been killed, and before the men had had food and sleep. [2]
The officers followed to check the soldiers and were involuntarily drawn into doing the same. [2]
Still it is to be considered whether the North Carolinians will not prefer officers of their own. [7]
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]
Blindly she ran to another door which led into the sitting-room of the matron, used for many purposes--the hold-all of the odds and ends of the hospital life; where surgeons consulted, officers waited, and army authorities congregated for the business of the hospital. [11]
The red-nosed Captain Timokhin, formerly Dolokhov's squadron commander, but now from lack of officers a battalion commander, shyly entered the shed followed by an adjutant and the regimental paymaster. [2]
As he walked through the Vier Marchi with his officers, there flashed before his eyes the scene of sixteen years ago, when, through the grime and havoc of battle, he had run to save Guida from the scimitar of the garish Turk. [11]
As they come through the dismal passages, some officers of the jail who are in waiting there, congratulate him, in their rough way, on his release. [12]
Coming up here three officers spoke of you, and told of humorous things you had said. [11]
In the room three officers of Denisov's band were converting a door into a tabletop. [2]
He raged and threatened on his way to punishment, but it did no good; he was snatched roughly along by the officers, and got an occasional cuff, besides, for his irreverent conduct. [5]
I but know this--these officers be all of noble family, and are born--what is it you call it?--chuckleheads. [5]
The blame for this untimely painting did not lie with the ship's officers, but with custom. [5]
I would form this crack regiment out of officers alone--not a single private. [5]
There were about thirty officers, with Pierre among them, and about three hundred men. [2]
These officers said they would take it upon themselves to insure us a cordial reception. [5]
On all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, and fencing from the village. [2]
At the city-gates they met Romanus, the general in command of the Imperial army, with his staff of officers, and he, drawing rein by the great merchant's carriage, had asked him, pointing to Constantine, whether that were his son. [10]
Upon each of these wharf-boats the association's officers placed a strong box fastened with a peculiar lock which was used in no other service but one--the United States mail service. [5]
Presently one of these officers said: "There is another singer, and the last. [11]

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