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"You Lintons generally appear bearing your sheaves with you," he said. "Well, you're very welcome. How many of you do I keep?" "Tommy and Norah, for certain," said Mr. Linton. "And as many more of us as you please. Want us all, doctor?" "Well, I really don't; there are a good many men volunteers. But if I might commandeer the car and a driver for a few hours, I should be glad," the doctor went on.
"Well!" resumed the latter, "as I told you we bivouacked among the olive trees on the way to Cannes. The Emperor had already sent Cambronne on ahead with forty of his grenadiers to commandeer what horses and mules he could, as we were not able to bring many across from Porto Ferrajo.
Then I began thinking about home again, and wondered what they were all doing there, and whether the Boers had interfered with my father because he was an Englishman. This brought up the thought that if the war went against the Boers they might go so far as to commandeer both my father and Bob. The thought was horrible.
Well, I got into German territory all right, and then a skellum of an officer came along, and commandeered all my mules, and wanted to commandeer me with them for his fool army. He was a very ugly man with a yellow face. Peter filled a deep pipe from a kudu-skin pouch. 'Were you commandeered? I asked. 'No. I shot him not so as to kill, but to wound badly.
Before them was a regiment of regulars advancing in column of fours, at the "double." An officer sprang to the front of the car and seated himself beside Ford. "I'll have to commandeer this," he said. "Run back to Cromer. Don't crush my men, but go like the devil!" "We heard firing here," explained the officer at the Coast Guard station. "The Guard drove them back to the sea.
It will be a great point in our favour to be able to go before our delegates and tell them that they are guaranteed on this point, for most of them are officers." Lord Kitchener: "I understand that General Botha refers not to commandeer or requisition notes, but only to actual receipts issued on the Treasury." Lord Milner: "I do not see any difference between these receipts and commandeer notes.
The secretary was to see to the washing of the sick member's clothes and pay for the work from the lodge's funds, as well as the doctor's fees. The marshal was to have charge of funerals, with power to commandeer the services of such members as might be required. He might fee the officiating minister to the extent of not more than $2.50, and draw pay for himself on a similar schedule.
On opening my eyes I found, to my astonishment, that the road was filled with armed revolutionaries marching, not towards, but away from Dresden, and some of them were trying to commandeer the coach to relieve their weariness on the way back. 'What is the matter? I cried. 'Where are you going? 'Home, was the reply. 'It is all over in Dresden.
The Q. people have still to commandeer offices for Woodward's men, three quarters of whom stay here permanently to do the casualty work; they have to formulate a local code of discipline; take up buildings for base hospitals and arrange for their personnel and equipment; outline their schemes for getting sick and wounded back from the front; finish up the loading of the ships, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum.
Stella had overtaken her work and snared a fleeting hour of idleness in mid-afternoon of a hot day in early August. Under a branchy alder at the cook-house-end she piled all the pillows she could commandeer in their quarters and curled herself upon them at grateful ease.
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