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The singular mlange of vainglorious boastings and lamentable shortcomings, of military tailoring, scandalous jobs, female influence, and incompetent officering, is gradually dying out before the stern exigencies of the occasion.

London, Saturday, September21, 1861 1861

So he told me what he'd been up to-on the stage, and here and there, a little peace-officering, a little gambling, drifting a good deal.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

We have at last found the right way to make them fight, by officering them with Englishmen, but we must not neglect the shooting process whenever they dare to turn tail.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

They know how to die like men, so they do, and there's no call for you to be officering them, sir, they're doing their duty.

Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

So he told me what he'd been up to-on the stage, and here and there, a little peace-officering, a little gambling, drifting a good deal.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

So he told me what he'd been up to-on the stage, and here and there, a little peace-officering, a little gambling, drifting a good deal.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

At one time, while officering it in a prison not one thousand miles -- as the penny papers say -- from the State of New-York, we received into our hands about as degraded a specimen of the _genus_

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

The Lieutenant, who was one of the very young recruits now officering the German Army, feeling overpowered by the presence of Royalty, had given the order, and the men were unstrapping the cover when the

L.P.M. : the end of the Great War

"The cult of the Asiatic life" is the latest definition of Christianity given by a recent apologist of Hinduism, one of a small company of Europeans in India officering the Hindu revival.

New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments John Morrison

General Arthur, by special request of Governor Morgan, resumed his duties as quartermaster-general and established a system of recruiting and officering the new levies, which proved wonderfully successful.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 Various