drill-master

Thus Leopold, heartily supported by Frederick William, who was himself called the great drill-master of Europe, turned to good account the twenty years following the peace with Sweden.

The Old Dessauer Der Alte Fritz 2008

In the past he had spent unnumbered weeks in the guard-house, but recently, thanks to the drill-master famine, he had been elevated to his present pinnacle.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

It would not do for Kyrtian to be seen wading in as if he was of no higher estate than his own drill-master.

Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

If the drill-master permit carelessness, then, authority alone can force the men through the evolutions; but if he insist on the greatest precision, they return to their task every morning, for twenty years, with fresh and increasing interest.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

Thus Leopold, heartily supported by Frederick William, who was himself called the great drill-master of Europe, turned to good account the twenty years following the peace with Sweden.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

In noticing the squad-drills, I perceive that the men learn less laboriously than whites that "double, double, toil and trouble," which is the elementary vexation of the drill-master, -- that they more rarely mistake their left for their right, -- and are more grave and sedate while under instruction.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

A youthful hero, who, under less happy auspices, might have been known only as the competent drill-master of regiments, elevated by the sagacity of

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

Like the father of Frederick the Great, he was an ideal drill-master, but an indifferent general.

The Story of Garfield Farm-boy, Soldier, and President William G. Rutherford

Spalding had no respect for the civic and rural forces they attempted to embody, and speaks of a petty bailie "who brought in ane drill-master to learn our poor bodies to handle their arms, who had more need to handle the plough and win their livings."

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

Full of enthusiasm for their cause, and of the best material, officers and men were, with few exceptions, without instruction, and the number of educated officers was, as in all the southern armies, too limited to satisfy the imperious demands of the staff, much less those of the drill-master.

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor