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But over time she even gets him to compose a letter she dictates indicating his interest and provoking her commanding-officer uncle (Corduner) to turn on Giorgio.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine "Passion" Gives Passion a Bad Name 2010
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He said good-bye to his commanding-officer, and went over to his bedroom-hut.
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But over time she even gets him to compose a letter she dictates indicating his interest and provoking her commanding-officer uncle (Corduner) to turn on Giorgio.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine "Passion" Gives Passion a Bad Name 2010
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But over time she even gets him to compose a letter she dictates indicating his interest and provoking her commanding-officer uncle (Corduner) to turn on Giorgio.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine "Passion" Gives Passion a Bad Name 2010
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But over time she even gets him to compose a letter she dictates indicating his interest and provoking her commanding-officer uncle (Corduner) to turn on Giorgio.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine "Passion" Gives Passion a Bad Name 2010
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With these thoughts passing through his mind, some tacit apprehension. arose of a rebuke on the part of his commanding-officer; for this officer, notwithstanding his strictness, Sir Aymer loved as well as feared.
Castle Dangerous 2008
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I obeyed, and when the soldier came up, desired to be conducted to his commanding-officer.
Rob Roy 2005
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One fellow had agility enough to spring over their boarding-netting, and was levelling a blow with his war-club at Mr. Oliver, the commanding-officer, who had the good fortune to shoot him.
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 Edward Edwards
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In vain did the officers endeavour to rally the men, and to lead them back to the rescue of their commanding-officer and their comrades; only one man, private Stewart of the 44th, listened to the appeal and returned.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various
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General Prescot, commanding-officer on Rhode Island, had imprudently fixed his headquarters near the western shore, at a considerable distance from his troops.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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