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Example sentences for "both officers and men"

  • Regiments had already been exposed to the fire of their comrades, and in front of the forest a perceptible hesitation seized on both officers and men.

  • Many stirring passages were added by the general's own pen; and the praise bestowed upon the troops, both officers and men, is couched in the warmest terms.

  • With the public, however, these considerations were lost sight of in the gallantry displayed by both officers and men, and the charge has long been one of the most popular episodes of the fight.

  • With that unfortunate speech rankling in the minds of both officers and men, the General sent the regiment on its way.

  • This was a bitter disappointment to both officers and men.

  • Captain Scott continued to issue his commands with coolness and decision, and they were promptly obeyed by both officers and men.

  • Be this as it may, the flames burst through the poop before the fire was discovered, and, notwithstanding the united efforts of both officers and men, they soon wrapt the vessel in a blaze fore and aft.

  • They have received ready help from both officers and men.

  • A certain number of both officers and men "go wrong.

  • Consider the fighting man in the trenches--and I am still speaking of both officers and men--the most ordinary refinements of life are conspicuously absent.

  • The numerous praises bestowed upon the regiment for its valuable services in this battle were highly flattering to both officers and men.

  • Both officers and men were, however, alike disappointed at this assignment, it having been their expectation to return to the old Ninth, with whose history their own was singularly identified.

  • Mr. Zimmer served a number of years with the Company to the most perfect satisfaction of both officers and men.

  • He was loved, respected, and honored by both officers and men, and his death caused a breach not easily repaired.

  • No officer in the Regiment stood higher in the estimation of both officers and men, than did Lieut.

  • Upon the most urgent solicitations of both officers and men, he consented to become one of the members of the DeWitt Guard.

  • On the following morning there was unusual commotion in the fort, and, notwithstanding the great sultriness of the weather, both officers and men appeared in the full costume of the regiment from an early hour.

  • We knew this, for we had furnished a number of volunteers, both officers and men, to take part in the assault; many of our higher officers had gone to witness the glorious spectacle.

  • A new and different arrangement was made this campaign with respect to both officers and men in their field-equipment.

  • The lieutenant-colonel commandant was given an independent company, and the whites, both officers and men, were pacified with grants of land.

  • It was now rapidly becoming dark, and the country, wild and savage in itself, was entirely strange to both officers and men.

  • Nothing but the coolness and steadiness displayed by both officers and men, saved the whole from destruction.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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