sublieutenant's

Updated: May 18, 2025

And then the day of liberty had come, and under the breath of that liberty, so eagerly and impatiently expected, the chapters she had begun were blotted out, and so was the handsome head of a cherub or an Amadis in a sublieutenant's cap or in a chimney-pot.

Hector France - The Grip of Desire

The sublieutenant's argument, bawled from the bridge rail to the reeling little boat below, was a marvel in its own sweet way; it combined abuse and scorn with a cataclysmic blast of threat in six explosive sentences. "He says he'll take us in for ten pounds, sir," he reported, without the vestige of a smile. "Oh! Ask Mr. Hartley to step up on the bridge, will you?"

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East