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Example sentences for "commissaries"

Lexicographically close words:
commiserating; commiseration; commissa; commissaires; commissariat; commissario; commissary; commission; commissionaire; commissionaires
  1. At present these commissaries have no right to bring suit against anyone at all, nor even to cause any arrest.

  2. There are always three or four superintendent-commissaries appointed, so that in case of death or removal another may succeed promptly to the office; but only one of them exercises the office [at any one time].

  3. There are besides three or four commissaries appointed by México, in order that there may be one who may promptly succeed to the office in case of death or resignation--although the said duty is always exercised by only one.

  4. He is the chief or superior of all the other commissaries scattered throughout the provinces.

  5. To meet at Dalton his expected advance, the reinforcements that had been spoken of must be sent at once.

  6. Two days later he received Bragg's full letter of the 12th sent by the hand of Colonel Sale as special messenger, and he now answers by telegraph.

  7. The cattle had been kept in corral till they were too thin and weak to be fit for food, but there was no other, and the commissaries killed the weakest and issued them as rations because these would otherwise die a natural death.

  8. The division and brigade commissaries will make arrangements with the steward of the ship for cooking the men's coffee and doing other necessary cooking for the command, and for serving the same out at regular hours.

  9. And the saide prince Edwarde and the kinges commissaries made here journeis by .

  10. Commissaries at that time were allowed to purchase in open market, and were not restricted to advertising and awarding contracts to the lowest bidders.

  11. But our commissaries of stores are so perfect!

  12. The commissaries don't know where to find their stores, colonels are looking for their regiments, generals for their brigades and divisions.

  13. Memorials of the English and French Commissaries concerning the Limits of Nova Scotia or Acadia.

  14. Other commissaries traversed the quarters of the capital, reading to the people the proclamation of the magistrates and the address of the National Assembly.

  15. The Dutch send commissaries to Paris to treat of peace.

  16. This shop was situated in the outer courtyard of the Temple Tower, and enjoyed the trade of all the soldiers, guards and commissaries employed in guarding the imprisoned king and his family.

  17. Citizen Coudert is one of the commissaries of the Tower!

  18. The commissaries changed daily, and their visits were always after nightfall.

  19. The friend was Citizen Barelle, one of the many and ever-changing commissaries of the Tower.

  20. As supplies of ammunition, provisions and rations for the men were wanted, trains would be made up to deliver the stores to the commissaries and quartermasters encamped at Winchester.

  21. After the first day's march from Springfield they met a Federal train carrying commissaries to Springfield and other western points.

  22. All of the commissaries and forage had to be conveyed from Rolla to Springfield, as the terminus of the railroad was at Rolla, by wagon trains, a distance of one hundred and twenty miles.

  23. The men being then on quarter rations, the Colonel took possession of some of the commissaries and issued them to the soldiers and prisoners, for which he was afterward arrested and court-martialed.

  24. They succeeded in reaching the post and in a short time commissaries and provisions, with forage, were forwarded up the river on two small transports, with a number of troops to force its passage up the river.

  25. Sometime in the latter part of the winter the commissaries and forage were becoming scarce and the nearest Federal post down White river was at Duvall's bluff.

  26. The five books, Of Heretical Fables, are a history of ancient heresies which he wrote at the request of Sporacius, one of the imperial commissaries at the council of Chalcedon, who was consul in 452.

  27. The commissaries usually are bishops, and the bishop of the diocese where the proposed is buried is usually one of them; but laymen are never employed.

  28. The Duke's Commissaries will be here to-morrow with a company of the Guard.

  29. The dispute growing serious, to prevent any acts of hostility, and to know on what grounds they went, a conference was held in 1615 between the Commissaries of England and Holland, in which the debate turned chiefly on the whale-fishery.

  30. Whereas[97] Hugo Grotius, who was Pensionary of the Magistrates of Rotterdam, and at present a prisoner before the Commissaries appointed by the States General to try him, has acknowledged without being put to the torture.

  31. The quartermasters and commissaries are actively engaged in getting out supplies.

  32. All persons employed as Commissaries of military stores, of clothing, or any other denomination, wherein the expenditure of public money or property is connected, ought to be subjected to this authority.

  33. Many employees and their families lived too far away from the commissaries to make daily visits, so they simply deposited their coupon books with the main commissary at Cristobal and sent their orders in by mail from day to day.

  34. The commissaries had the same provisions, and the railroad company made the general distinction as much as it could by first and second class passenger rates.

  35. Most of the commissaries and under-commissaries of the Government were men of this type.

  36. A legion of vile spies, who were decorated with the fine title of Commissaries of Chastity, were the merciless tormentors of all the girls.

  37. It is further agreed upon, that commissaries shall be appointed by each party, immediately after the ratification of this treaty to regulate the limits as aforesaid.

  38. The Peoples' Commissaries and the Soviets have, upon more than one occasion, made admissions that these horrors were part of their program.

  39. Only the most eminent commissaries of the people and a few other Soviet stars of the first magnitude are domiciled there in the grandiose palaces that once housed the most famous figures of Muscovite history.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commissaries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.