ex-sergeant

• “A few weeks shy of 27, Pulaski was the oldest cadet at West Point this year, an ex-sergeant and one of about 30 former enlisted soldiers who have already been to war.”

  Newsweek: Worried They Will Miss the War

• “By 1968, when the ex-sergeant major of the US Army gave an anti-war speech to a convention of disabled Vietnam Veterans against the War, the people had decided.”

  Watching the Iraq Hearings With Petraeus and Crocker - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com

• “Present were Father Serra, three of his Franciscans, Governor Felipe de Neve, and the ex-sergeant, José Ortega, now a lieutenant after Father Serra's unsuccessful campaign to have him appointed governor of California.”

  Archive 2006-03-01

• “The ex-sergeant was busy staunching the blood of a long scratch on his cheek.”

  Falk, by Joseph Conrad

• “On the third day he thanked the maimed ex-sergeant and told him the story of Ralphie and Linda.”

  Simon & Schuster: Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

• “This bloke, ex-sergeant, had asked the C.O. for a reference, set him up in Civvy Street, and the C.O. had written in his file: 'Suitable for petrol pump attendant.”

  Civvies

• “He had bought the foul stuff that passed for wine from one such commercial traveler, and the surplus - canvas had come from an enterprising young ex-sergeant who had bought up hundreds of old tents cheap when the border camps were disbanded.”

  The Misenchanted Sword

• “A man who was clearly an ex-sergeant, superb in a crested baize apron, motioned him towards an inner room.”

  Cargo of Eagles

• “I hailed him by name, and asked him why he had left his old regiment He told me that he was suffering from hernia and pulmonary consumption; and when I left the place, after seeing the picture on glass which I had been invited to view, I enjoyed the sweetest vengeance of my lifetime in tipping the ex-sergeant half-a-crown, and in leaving him without any disclosure of my own identity.”

  Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile

• “Huh," ejaculated the ex-sergeant gruffly as he dug up the war-tax, "I think we bought it.”

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