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Harry Jekyl be not considering how far his own interference with such a naughty business will be well taken at Head-quarters; and so, without pausing on that question, I shall barely and briefly say, that you cannot be more sensible than I am of the madness of bringing matters to such an extremity — I have no such intention,
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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For there are certain administrative rules of which the public knows nothing but which, for the men of Police Head-quarters, are sometimes of great importance.
Maigret has Scruples Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1958
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The Commander of the Corps had been a great favorite at the Head-quarters of the army -- perhaps because in this old
Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong
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General Washington's Head-quarters, where they delivered your petition to him, representing your disagreeable situation at this extreme hot season of the year, and in your names solicited his Excellency to grant your speedy relief, by exchanging you for a part of the British
American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge
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There are too many of these half-hearted Head-quarters in the army.
Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong
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A council of war nearly caused Head-quarters to cancel a battalion parade, but they pulled themselves together and held the drill, and the appointed
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 5, 1919 Various
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Head-quarters, and this morning I was ordered to present myself at
The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" George Davidson
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There are also a High Court of Appeals, and the Head-quarters Staff, who supervise the execution of all military duties.
Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute Theo. F. Rodenbough
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Head-quarters of the army were established at Fairfax Court House, and thither repaired the corps commanders to hold a council in regard to our future movements.
Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 George T. Stevens
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C. Davis, but found him absent; stopped at Department Head-quarters and saw General Reynolds, chief of staff; caught sight of Generals Hooker, Howard, and Gordon Granger.
The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty
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