Marines
[mə'ri:ns]
Definition
(noun.) members of a body of troops trained to serve on land or at sea.
Editor: Shanna--From WordNet
Examples
- The gentleman who keeps her is a captain of horse-marines. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I only know that I believe to this hour that he WAS in the Marines once upon a time, without knowing why. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Porter landed a force of sailors and marines to move against the sea-front in co-operation with Ames's assault. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These sailors and marines had worked their way up to within a couple of hundred yards of the fort before the assault. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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