Sentence Examples

1. I had a brother, an elder brother, who was in the service of the emperor he had become lieutenant in a regiment composed entirely of Corsicans.
2. Thus N shall signify a plot, B a regiment of horse, L a fleet at sea.
3. At length one presented himself he was a sharp-shooter of the regiment of Picardy, named Luzerne, who took aim at the animal, fired, and hit him in the quarters, for we saw the blood redden the hair of the horse.
4. There is a vast difference between throwing a regiment of white coats atwixt the tribes and the prisoners, and coaxing an angry savage to forget he carries a knife and rifle, with words that must begin with calling him your son.
5. Fernand was enrolled in the active army, went to the frontier with his regiment, and was at the battle of Ligny.
6. The veteran Scotchman just named held the first, with a regiment of regulars and a few provincials a force really by far too small to make head against the formidable power that Montcalm was leading to the foot of his earthen mounds.
7. The regiment was fed and caressed at station after station until the youth had believed that he must be a hero.
8. At first he imagined some regiment of soldiers was passing that way, and to see them he spurred Rocinante and mounted the hill.
9. He had had the belief that real war was a series of death struggles with small time in between for sleep and meals but since his regiment had come to the field the army had done little but sit still and try to keep warm.
10. Well, my friend, fortune is inconstant, as the chaplain of the regiment said.