Lieutenants
[lef'tenənts]
Examples
- But the devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Generally lieutenants were appointed to captaincies to fill vacancies in the staff corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The preparations at Corpus Christi for an advance progressed as rapidly in the absence of some twenty or more lieutenants as if we had been there. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He used to talk of that vision to the 'cabinet' of political lieutenants which met every Sunday night at his house. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Lieutenants in the army get about a dollar a day, and common soldiers a couple of cents. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Captains approved, the Lieutenants applauded, the Ensigns admired. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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