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  • It was in the SFWA suite, where I had been admitted as a newly-joined member, having sold all of three or four short stories.

    The Coveted Thelma Award, part one Steve Perry 2007

  • The plan was based on the strange fact that one of the newly-joined escapers had in his possession, in his cell, his 'Book-of-Life' - an identity document carried by all white

    Chapter 10 - First Escape Date 1987

  • To the newly-joined Subaltern, Guest Night conveyed the holy impression of a religious rite.

    "Contemptible", by "Casualty"

  • It was the last section of A Battery pulling out; in command young Stenson, a round-faced, newly-joined officer, alert and eager, and not ill-pleased with the responsibility placed upon him.

    Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

  • The day was hot, and as there was no water on the route the newly-joined militia reservists suffered considerably.

    The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

  • He saluted in the nervously precise fashion of the newly-joined officer.

    Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

  • This laudable maxim applies in a lesser degree to all his subordinates, right down to the newly-joined boy, who can't very well help seeing _some_ things done, unless he makes a habit of working with his eyes shut -- a practice which does not appeal particularly to P. O.'s.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919 Various

  • Among our last draft of recruits was a newly-joined officer who had been at the military business before.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914 Various

  • But the skipper, who was accustomed to the ways and tricks of newly-joined officers generally, and sub-lieutenants in particular, had been awake the whole time.

    Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories 1925

  • He had hero-worshipped Major Hunt in his first days of soldiering, when that much-enduring officer, a Mons veteran with the D.S.O. to his credit, had been chiefly responsible for the training of newly-joined subalterns: and Major Hunt, in his turn, had liked the two Australian boys, who, whatever their faults of carelessness or ignorance, were never anything but keen.

    Captain Jim Mary Grant Bruce 1918

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