 | 1827 - 472 pagina’s
...exercise which they were obliged to perform. An intelligent serjeunt whispered from time to time the word of command, which his captain would have been...that the pleasures of the mess, or of the card or billiard-table, should occupy too much of the leisure of those who had so few duties to perform, and... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pagina’s
...perform. An intelligent sergeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which his captain-would have been ashamed to have known without prompting;...duties to perform, and that extravagance, with all its disreputable consequences, should be the characteristic of many ; while others, despairing of promotion,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 500 pagina’s
...exercise which they were obliged to perform. An intelligent sergeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which his captain would have been...duties to perform, and that extravagance, with all its disreputable consequences, should be the characteristic of many officers, while others, despairing... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1827 - 1072 pagina’s
...the par which they were obliged to perform. An intelligent sergeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which his captain would have been...duties to perform, and that extravagance, with all its disreputable consequences, should be the characteristic of many ; while others, despairing of promotion,... | |
 | 1827 - 616 pagina’s
...exercise which they were obliged to perform. An intelligent sergeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which his captain would have been...duties to perform, and that extravagance, with all its disreputable consequences, should be the characteristic of many, while others, despairing of promotion,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 506 pagina’s
...exercise which they were obliged to perform. An intelligent sergeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which his captain would have been...duties to perform, and that extravagance, with all its disreputable consequences, should be the characteristic of many officers, while others, despairing... | |
 | 1827 - 730 pagina’s
...the last week, they were obliged to perform. An intelligent scrjeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which his captain would have been...occupy too much of the leisure of those who had so feiv duties to perform, — and that extravagance, with all its disreputable consequences, should be... | |
 | 1827 - 700 pagina’s
...exercise, which they were obliged to perform. An intelligent serjeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which his captain would have been...table, should occupy too much of the leisure of those, whd had so few duties to perform, and that extravagance, with all its disreputable consequences, should... | |
 | 1827 - 574 pagina’s
...exercise which they were obliged to perform. An intelligent sergeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which his captain would have been...circumstances, that the pleasures of the mess, or of the cardor billiard table, should occupy too much of the leisure of those who had so few duties to perform,... | |
 | 1827 - 728 pagina’s
...exercise which they were obliged to perform. An intelligent Serjeant whispered from time to tine the word of command, which his captain would have been...under such circumstances, that the pleasures of the mesa, or of the card or billiard table, should occupy too much of the leisure of those who had so few... | |
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An intelligent sergeant whispered from time to time the word of command, which his captain would have been ashamed to have known without prompting ; and thus the duty of the field-day was huddled over rather than performed. 
