There's always something to learn". Grant Arthur, 13, appeared to master the drill while working up a sweat.
His forebears were travelling comedians, performing at the fairs of Europe: his grandfather won the name "Iron-Legs" by leaping to the chandeliers at L'Opéra Comique in Paris for a bet; his father, Giuseppe, "the Signior", was a pantomimist and ballet master who drilled the children at Sadler's Wells with jaw-dropping ferocity; his mother, Rebecca, danced in the chorus.
Master all drills, previous skills and other preparations before you attempt a new move.
And he did so in his clipped Hanseatic dialect which makes him sound to southern Germans like a Prussian drill master.
Nicholas I was by nature a drill master and an inspector general; the army remained his love, almost an obsession, from childhood to the end of his life.
Gen. Wesley K. Clark strode into his new campaign headquarters here on Saturday to the beat of Van Halen's "Right Now," then, like a drill master, addressed his new recruits.
One key figure in the group's dynamics was Jose Henriquez, 54, a drill master and evangelical preacher who was named the group's official "pastor".
In the marching band, you were both the drum major and the drill master?
Knopf has mastered the verbal drill for tough guys in tight situations, and like Sam's nautical know-how, his banter with imperfect strangers is a cut above the norm.
Even as drill masters studied ancient Roman textbooks to recover the discipline that made the legions formidable instruments of policy, so too did strategists return to a Classical world in which the logic of foreign policy shaped the conduct of war.
To prepare the regiment for action, Devereux enlisted the aid of several members of the Salem Light Infantry company to serve as drill masters.
