Sentence example with the word 'lieutenancy'

lieutenancy

Definition n. the position of a lieutenant

Last update: October 22, 2015


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Frost, in which he imparted the intelligence that he had been promoted to a second lieutenancy.   [Please select]

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Frank did not deem it necessary to tell the other that he held a lieutenancy in the British royal navy.   [Please select]

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The men wished to put up Allan Gold for the lieutenancy, but Allan declined.   [Please select]

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Sir Gervis Yelvis, who obtained the lieutenancy by Somerset's interest, was a creature devoted to his pleasure.   [Please select]

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I have put in for the first lieutenancy, so we won't run foul of each other.   [Please select]

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He served with me in the Vosges, distinguished himself greatly, and won his lieutenancy and the Cross.   [Please select]

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According to a precedent now prevailing for several reigns, the Lord-Lieutenancy was conferred upon the Duke of Bedford, the king's uncle, Kildare continuing, however, practically to exercise all the functions of government as his deputy.   [Please select]

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Dick Bumstead, too, manifested an ambition to fill his second lieutenancy, to which, so much to his own surprise, he had been elected, in such a manner as to justify the company in their choice.   [Please select]

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