sergeant-major's

I had to sit, so I moved around the desk and sat in the sergeant-major's chair.

Nutrition 2010

I checked the drains and trash bins with the sergeant-major's help, but we came up with nothing, except uniforms caked in sweat.

Nutrition 2010

I had to sit, so I moved around the desk and sat in the sergeant-major's chair.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

I checked the drains and trash bins with the sergeant-major's help, but we came up with nothing, except uniforms caked in sweat.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

He raised a hand and the line of pikemen parted, allowing the sergeant-major's charger to trot forward.

The Kinslayer Wars Niles, Douglas 1991

He seemed to know his way about the kitchen, for he at once directed me to the right quarter-a biscuit tin on the scullery shelf-and explained that the family all drank China, except his wife, who liked "sergeant-major's tea, Indian, sweet, and strong" -which was made for her in her own room by Nurse Cutler.

Crime On the Coast Carr, John Dickson 1984

In the morning my new companions informed me that there was to be a sergeant-major's parade at eight o'clock, in shirt-sleeve order and I felt a little apprehensive because I now had no time to blanco my equipment; there was nothing for it but to go on parade multi-coloured.

Coming of Age: 1939-1946 John Cox

The non-commissioned officer is designated by name from the sergeant-major's office.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Various

A terrible thing happened during the night; the sergeant-major's horse had got loose from our lines and was missing.

A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

The sergeant-major's nephew was found in the act of pipeclaying a pair of gauntlet gloves which bore my number, and the immediate consequence of this was a stand-up fight in the riding-school in the presence of some fifty or sixty of the men and two or three officers who looked on from the gallery.

The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography David Christie Murray