Sentence examples for of a sergeant major from inspiring English sources
When she glanced through "Verses of a Sergeant Major, Ret.," she found it unreadable.
The son of a sergeant major, Lerroux practiced as a lawyer and worked as a journalist in Barcelona before becoming leader of the Radical Party.
Quite frankly, it is not our middle- and lower middle-class youth who need the sharp words of a sergeant major to set them straight – austerity Britain already has them on the double trying to salvage their futures.
Born in Colchester, England, in 1927, the son of a sergeant major in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and raised in the London suburb of Wimbleton, he was a boy soprano in a church choir until his voice changed.
She was an imposing presence with her thick glasses and a loud, clear voice that carried the authority of a sergeant major — which she was to dissidents and refuseniks, helping them get their message out through her many contacts among foreign correspondents and diplomats.
"Doc," he said with the imperiousness of a sergeant major, "what's the plan of attack?" I explained that I needed to hear his story before devising any therapeutic plans.
Surviving the carnage of the World War I battle of Ypres, a sergeant major returns to Surrey's green and pleasant land as a psychopathic killer.
In 1792 he joined the national volunteers of Gers and, as a sergeant major, served in the Army of the Pyrénées-Orientales against the Spanish.
He persuaded other British PoWs to give him the precious chocolate from their Red Cross parcels, which he then used to bribe one of the SS guards, a sergeant major with a craving for Swiss chocolate.
In 2006, his unit captured a sergeant major of the People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (Prepak), along with a cache of their arms.
Sousa served in the U.S. Marine Corps, first from 1868 to 1875 as an apprentice musician, and then as the head of the Marine Band from 1880 to 1892; he was a Sergeant Major for most of his second period of Marine service.
