An intelligent sergeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which his captain would have been ashamed to have known without prompting ; and thus the duty of the field-day was huddled over rather than performed. The Naval and Military Magazine - Page 11827Full view - About this book
| Decorative arts - 1827 - 472 pages
...master even of the routine of the exercise which they were obliged to perform. An intelligent serjeunt whispered from time to time the word of command, which...that the pleasures of the mess, or of the card or billiard-table, should occupy too much of the leisure of those who had so few duties to perform, and... | |
| James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...perform. An intelligent sergeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which his captain-would have been ashamed to have known without prompting;...table, should occupy too much of the leisure of those who had so few duties to perform, and that extravagance, with all its disreputable consequences, should... | |
| William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1827 - 1072 pages
...I determination inferior to on the par which they were obliged to perform. An intelligent sergeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which...table, should occupy too much of the leisure of those who had so few duties to perform, and that extravagance, with all its disreputable consequences, should... | |
| 1827 - 616 pages
...master even of the routine of the exercise which they were obliged to perform. An intelligent sergeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which...table, should occupy too much of the leisure of those who had so few duties to perform, and that extravagance, with all its disreputable consequences, should... | |
| Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1827 - 506 pages
...master even of the routine of the exercise which they were obliged to perform. An intelligent sergeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which...table, should occupy too much of the leisure of those who had so few duties to perform, and that extravagance, with all its disreputable consequences, should... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1827 - 730 pages
...h« boy, let loose from school the last week, they were obliged to perform. An intelligent scrjeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which...table, should occupy too much of the leisure of those who had so feiv duties to perform, — and that extravagance, with all its disreputable consequences,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 500 pages
...master even of the routine of the exercise which they were obliged to perform. An intelligent sergeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which...table, should occupy too much of the leisure of those who had so few duties to perform, and that extravagance, with all its disreputable consequences, should... | |
| John Watkins - 1827 - 738 pages
...exercise which they were obliged to perform. An intelligent sergeant whispered from time to time die word of command, which his captain would have been...table, should occupy too much of the leisure of those who had so few duties to perform, and that extravagance, with all its disputable consequences,' should... | |
| English literature - 1827 - 574 pages
...master even of the routine of the exercise which they were obliged to perform. An intelligent sergeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which...circumstances, that the pleasures of the mess, or of the cardor billiard table, should occupy too much of the leisure of those who had so few duties to perform,... | |
| English essays - 1827 - 728 pages
...the exercise which they were obliged to perform. An intelligent Serjeant whispered from time to tine the word of command, which his captain would have...under such circumstances, that the pleasures of the mesa, or of the card or billiard table, should occupy too much of the leisure of those who had so few... | |
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