colour-sergeant

The half-caste woman who looked after him she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait told the missionaries that she was Kim's mother's sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a Colonel's family and had married Kimball O'Hara, a young colour-sergeant of the Mavericks, and Irish regiment...

Archive 2009-04-01 Karen Burnham 2009

The half-caste woman who looked after him she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait told the missionaries that she was Kim's mother's sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a Colonel's family and had married Kimball O'Hara, a young colour-sergeant of the Mavericks, and Irish regiment...

Less a Review, and More a Thank You Karen Burnham 2009

Once the colour-sergeant was away, and it was suggested we should go to the open-air meeting without the Flag.

The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" Minnie Lindsay Rowell Carpenter

He successively and successfully discharged the duties of drill-instructor, pay-sergeant, and other non-commissioned offices, and held the rank of colour-sergeant at the commencement of the Afghan campaign, wherein he repeatedly so greatly distinguished himself.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

A colour-sergeant of the 2nd Black Watch writing from hospital thus described the moments when the unlucky Brigade which had stood gloriously against the terrific shock first became disorganised: --

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke

He had just been made a colour-sergeant, and determined to wake things up.

The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939

Once Rogers had said to the House colour-sergeant:

The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939

Rumour had it yesterday that we would go to Egypt; to-day my mate, the blue-eyed Jersey youth, heard from a friend, who heard it from a colour-sergeant, that we are going out to India, where we will be kept as guardians of the King's Empire for a matter of four years.

The Amateur Army Patrick MacGill 1926

He employed the disc string to fasten the water-bottle of the man on his left to the haversack of the man on his right, and the colour-sergeant, livid with rage, vowed to chasten him by confining him eternally to barracks.

The Amateur Army Patrick MacGill 1926

The colour-sergeant, standing at the end of the street, whistle in hand, was in a nasty temper.

The Amateur Army Patrick MacGill 1926