Aide

Examples

• You go as General Tufto's aide-de-camp. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Firkin rushed downstairs to Bowls who was reading out the Fire and the Frying Pan to his aide-de-camp in a loud and ghostly voice. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I allude to the Duke of York's aide-de-camp. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I must soon join my regiment in Yorkshire, said he: he was, at that time aide-de-camp to General Mackenzie: God knows when we may meet again! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Stevenson, of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was assigned as his aide. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• George was always welcome in the apartments (very close indeed to those of the General) which the aide-de-camp and his wife occupied in the hotel. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Comstock, aide-de-camp (now brevet brigadier-general), who accompanied the former expedition, was assigned, in orders, as chief-engineer to this. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The aide-de-camp must have arrived sometime while Jos and Rebecca were making their bargain together, or the latter was inspecting his purchase. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Countess was shocked at the familiarity of General Tufto with the aide-de-camp's wife. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Colonel and his aide-de-camp went out to meet the gentleman, rightly conjecturing that he was an emissary of Lord Steyne. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Ask Martingale; he was in Spain, aide-de-camp to General Blazes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She was the _chère amie_ Colonel Armstrong, an aide-de-camp of the Duke of York. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Ten men had been so decorated when the aide called out, John Carter, air scout! Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• His function as aide-de-camp to General Tufto had ceased previously. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He wished George to be his aide-de-camp; but George would not go. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• And then swiftly he dispatched his aides-de-camp to command the horse to fall on the routed enemy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The ladies there are only to be our aides-de-camp, and at their peril they speak, till we have settled the whole business. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Think of those two aides-de-camp of Mr. Moses, the sheriff's-officer, who watched our lodging for a week. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Kantos Kan saluted and turned to deliver my instructions to his waiting aides. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The aides, which correspond to the excise in England, are very different in different provinces. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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