Sentence examples for High officer from inspiring English sources

As subst.: purpŭrātus, i, m., a high officer at a king's court (so called because clothed in purple), Cic.

By Van Santer, E. J. Kahn, Jr., and Harold Ross The New Yorker, July 19 , 1941P. 7 On the weekend following the invasion of Russia, a high officer in the Navy Dept.

A somewhat similar theme, used for pious edification, is that of the legendary St. Eustace, reputedly a high officer under the Roman emperor Trajan, who lost his position, property, and family only to regain them after many tribulations, trials, and dangers.

The guard, furnished to this high officer to protect him from being harassed by vexatious and unnecessary subpoenas, is to be looked for in the conduct of a court after those subpoenas have issued, not in any circumstance which is to precede their being issued.

MacPherson reminds us that in 1992, three years after Stone's death, a high officer of the former Soviet Union's former spy service, the K.G.B., revealed that from time to time in the 1960's, Stone did accept luncheon invitations, and the K.G.B. picked up the tab.

Under him some high officers have profited handsomely.

All high officers of the realm were to swear allegiance to the king and the council.

"The government high officers, without any consultation with the hockey players, decided they will form this united team," he said.

"Australians now loathe and detest any Englishman wearing red," he wrote; the "countless high officers and conceited young cubs" were "plainly only playing at War".

During a drunken revel characteristic of the rough Macedonian court, an Athenian woman named Thais, the mistress of one of the high officers present, made a startling suggestion.

He railed that high officers in the city and state governments were against him.