brevet

• I followed immediately afterward, and had a busy ten minutes, being buffeted this way and that, until, as the brevet moniteur had foretold, I reached quiet air at twenty-five hundred feet This was my first experience in passing from one air current to another. —  High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France
• He addicted himself to the military service, and is now brevet-major in the 73rd regiment. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
• I'm a doctor by brevet, as they say in the army." —  The Tyranny of the Dark
• In France the term brevetι is particularly used with respect to the General Staff, to express the equivalent of the English "passed Staff College" (p.s.c BREVIARY (Lat. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• I may say they appear to me to be perfectly valid, as an occurrence took place upon which it was impossible for Captain Peters to calculate, when he gave them James then finished the report of his proceedings, and General Wolfe expressed his great satisfaction at the result I will put you in orders, tomorrow, for your brevet-majority," he said; "and never was the rank more honourably earned The admiral rang a hand bell Send Mr. Middleton to me. —  With Wolfe in Canada The Winning of a Continent

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