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After the lower-ranked warrant-officers offer their views, "The opinions of the others grew gradually more explicit and clear, as they ascended in the scale of rank" (75).
Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott 2006
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"This was not agreed on, nor the fact that only academically qualified warrant-officers would be considered for promotion to the exclusion of warrant-officers to be promoted on merit."
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The designations of captain and lieutenant would combine to the title of captain, while warrant-officers would be called inspectors.
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The commissions of warrant-officers who qualified for promotion to the rank of lieutenant had been submitted to President Nelson Mandela for approval.
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In an argument on admissibility, lawyer Mr W P de Villiers said statements by both the accused, warrant-officers Nicolaas van Dyk,
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I heard uttered by one of the warrant-officers, who came past where we stood clustered together, certainly sounded uncommonly like the name of the lambs 'mothers I have just mentioned, showing that its ` eidolon' remained.
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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The thousand ounces for the several persons on board the Vanguard were thus apportioned, by his lordship's directions -- The wardroom, one hundred ounces; twenty-seven gentlemen of the quarter-deck, and warrant-officers, four ounces each; five hundred and seventy-nine seamen and marines, one and one-third of an ounce each; twenty-six boys, half an ounce each; and a surplus of seven ounces, to be expended for general use.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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He kept hold of the cable, however, and seemed determined not to put himself in harm's way, until a little, wicked urchin, who used to wait on the warrant-officers 'mess, a small meddling snipe of a creature, who got flogged in well behaved weeks
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832 Various
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The lieutenants and other commissioned gentlemen forming Captain Vere's staff it is not necessary here to particularize, nor needs it to make any mention of any of the warrant-officers.
Billy Budd 1924
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There is a most efficient body of men called warrant-officers, who wear
The U-boat hunters 1912
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