Sentence examples for regiment I from inspiring English sources

Mr. Colville has said the painting was inspired by a couplet written by the South African poet Roy Campbell: "Against a regiment I oppose a brain,/And a dark horse against an armoured train".

Greene endorsed the request and forwarded it to brigade headquarters for final approval with a brutally honest note on the back, a damning indictment of Oliver's value to the regiment: "I can spare Lieut.

When I left the regiment, I took that philosophy with me, and it was crucial in my swims in Antarctica, down the Thames, across the Maldives, and across the North Pole.

In the early years of the War, he organised local armed forces into Battalion X of Regiment I; Suharto was promoted Major and became Battalion X's leader.

Well, to make a long story short, the regiment I served in, made up of Japanese Americans, had the highest casualties in Europe, but the most decorated in the history of the United States.

When I joined the Regiment I was told that the best way to survive those first years in the Sabre squadron was to pick out someone who you thought you would like to be.

I'm not a very regimented person but when I try to be regimented, I'm just wasting my time.

So there's a certain freedom that I have there as opposed to the different structure regiment that I'd be forced to pay attention to if I was playing Miles Davis or something".

Having read Goodbye To All That, I knew this was Graves's regiment, and I asked the old man if he knew Captain Robert Graves.

I've popped down to see the regiment whenever I can, or they pop over to see me.

When I first joined my unit (Company C, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Division) I was warmly welcomed.