field-officers

He had the whole Army List by heart — that is, as far as the field-officers: all below them he scorned.

The Bedford-Row Conspiracy 2006

Henry, then on the Lower Rhine, and put up at the best hotel of the place, where the field-officers of the garrison had their ordinary.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

He rejoiced to see general and field-officers riding desolately about the barren camp deprived of their commands.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

This news when the captain had received, he communicated to the other field-officers, and they again to their soldiers and men of war.

The Holy War 2001

Then we thought we might get positions as field-officers under an old friend of mine, Colonelnow GeneralFrancis V. Greene, of New York, the Colonel of the Seventy-first; but again there were no vacancies.

The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

In a curious spirit of contradiction, the infantry adopted brass spurs, anticipatory, perhaps, of their promotion to field-officers 'rank; and, bearing in mind, that

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

I take the liberty to recommend in preference some honourary present, especially to the field-officers.

The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat

The Paymaster's brothers were not there, for though he was the brother with the money they were field-officers and they never forgot it.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

All gentlemen, or, as it is expressed here, noblesse, have been recalled from the army, and replaced by officers chosen by the soldiers themselves, [Under the rank of field-officers.] whose affections are often conciliated by qualities not essentially military, though sometimes professional.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

"With nothing less than field-officers, I hope?" said a superb cavalier, with a superb smile.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various