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Example sentences for "first lieutenant"

  • Mr Mildmay will be mighty glad to find that he hasn't to do duty as first lieutenant, though I don't know what old Sandford may wish in his heart of hearts.

  • I have never aspired to the post of first lieutenant,--to oblige you," said Mildmay.

  • I am appointed to the Opal, just commissioned at Portsmouth, as first lieutenant.

  • The only drawback, as far as I am concerned, is that I shall lose you as my first lieutenant.

  • He died a few days after, and by his death I was promoted to the grade of first lieutenant.

  • He was then serving as first lieutenant on the Winthrop, a small cruiser.

  • The Serapis' first lieutenant ran up just as Captain Pearson surrendered, and cried out, "Has she struck?

  • On Captain Barry's death he left this sword, most worthily and appropriately, to Dale, the great captain's first lieutenant.

  • For a short time after his return, he served in the John Adams, from which he was transferred to the Argus, as first lieutenant.

  • From this ship he was transferred to the sloop-of-war Hornet, as first lieutenant, under Captain Hunt.

  • First Lieutenant, was in December, '63, appointed to duty at Division Headquarters, and served on the staff of Gen.

  • Wedgewood, who was promoted to the command of Battery A after the promotion of Major Young, left the State as First Lieutenant of Battery B.

  • The shoulders of Captain Grant were adorned with the gold leaf of a Major; Lieutenant Critchlow had been elevated to a Captaincy; Lieutenant Naylor wore the single bar of a First Lieutenant, and First Sergeant John A.

  • Critchlow became a member of the National Guard some time after his arrival, being attached to the medical staff with the rank of First Lieutenant.

  • I am appointed to command this ship, and you appear to have a very good character from your late first lieutenant.

  • When I came on board, Mr Falcon, who, although acting captain, continued his duties as first lieutenant almost as punctually as before, asked how it was that I had allowed my men to get so tipsy.

  • I will ask," replied Jack; "a gentleman of fortune has more weight with a first lieutenant than a midshipman.

  • French as Captain; Eustace Gibson, First Lieutenant; William A.

  • The service was performed in the most gallant way by Lieutenant Quin, first lieutenant of the Naiad, with her boats, he having pulled in under a tremendous fire from the fortress, boarded and blown up the brig.

  • The gallant Captain Lawrence and his first lieutenant, Augustus Ludlow, died of their wounds, the former on the passage to Halifax, the latter on his arrival, and were buried there with all the honours their victors could bestow.

  • Ensign in a Man-of-War “ First Lieutenant ditto.

  • Josephinum Academy for Medicine and Surgery, For the formation of students for the higher grades of the medical and surgical departments, from the rank of first lieutenant-surgeon.

  • Promotion is given, according to seniority, up to the grade of first lieutenant.

  • Since their conversation was carried on in whispers, First Lieutenant Borgert, despite strenuous efforts to overhear, could only catch a phrase or a single word from time to time.

  • A conversation was in progress, and Christy concluded from the voices he heard that Corny had invited his first lieutenant to dine with him.

  • I have just told you that the first lieutenant is a Confederate officer; and I have not yet learned who is the third lieutenant.

  • Ringdove, and who, do you think, is my first lieutenant?

  • Omaha's First Lieutenant, who had been killed just after I had seen him charging with his men.

  • He told me that he'd soon make me know what a first lieutenant was: what did he mean by that?

  • He is first lieutenant, boatswain, sailing-master, and quartermaster.

  • Yes, but he said that as soon as he got on board, he'd show me the difference between a first lieutenant and a midshipman.


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