The house over there was used as a billet in the Civil War. From LearnThat.org.
Verb (used with object) : We arranged with the townspeople to billet the students. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : They billeted in youth hostels. From Dictionary.com.
Teaching in a boys 'cramming-joint down in Pennsylvania, and of all private little hells such a billet is the limit. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 32] Reference
The billet was a scrap on which was written only. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
Our billet was a farm just on the edge of the village. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
No, you must play underhand with me, knowing that this billet was the one chance for me to get on my feet again. From Wordnik.com. [Bunches of Knuckles] Reference
I have been offered exactly the kind of billet I wanted -- that of estate-agent to a big land-owner. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
"I object to the word billet," he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of The American Legion] Reference
Matt lived with "billet" parents, next door to the high school. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Whoso transgressed received a 'billet', which he took to headquarters. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
In the present instance Miss Pinkerton's "billet" was to the following effect. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
Hodges told the panel he believes he would have remembered terms like "billet" and. From Wordnik.com. [C - Advertising News] Reference
Matt lived with "billet" parents Gwen and Steve Milligan, friends of his coach, next door to the high school. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: All Blogs] Reference
With the aid of the buddy, I was able to reach our billet. From Wordnik.com. [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference
A centurion presented a billet which set forth that he was not. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
It was on a sharp grade, but a billet of wood held it in place. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Fire Fighters or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed] Reference
A trench mirror four inches by six hung on the wall of my billet. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
Plenty of barns and roosts were found in which to billet the battery. From Wordnik.com. [The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces] Reference
Rubbing his eyes, and more asleep than awake, the marquis took the billet, and read. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Before leaving the billet we made a large bonfire with boxes from the C. Q.M.'s stores. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918] Reference
Three women died when an Iraqi Scud missile struck their billet near the end of the war. From Wordnik.com. [War And The Second Sex] Reference
Both had found their billet in the body of the bear; but neither had struck a vital spot. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
"Well, Desmond," cried Ebenezer Brown, "I need an office-boy; how would you like the billet?". From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
The result of this night's work provided fuel and light for several days in the billet of the raiding party. From Wordnik.com. [The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces] Reference
The next day, at noon, I received a beautiful bouquet of flowers, and a perfumed billet-doux; they were from Angelo. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Over each arch rises a lofty pediment, bounded by the wave and billet ornaments, and surmounted by a perforated cross. From Wordnik.com. [The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral] Reference
Every vacant house, barn or shed that possibly could be pressed into service, was designated as a billet for the troops. From Wordnik.com. [The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces] Reference
Other modifications include upgraded brakes, high-flow exhaust system, and 22-inch Yenko-specific billet aluminum wheels. From Wordnik.com. [2009 SEMA Show: Our favorite modified Chevrolet Camaros] Reference
I have this facility to do the billet rims, to build molds, to do all kinds of stuff and we started investigating rubber. From Wordnik.com. [An Oldie Is New Again: High-Tech Soap Box Racing] Reference
We agreed we must put a billet doux there, if another day passed without the sign, though it was dangerously near Pirate Hall. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
The house had been foreman's shed to a large factory, had been a Boche canteen, and, finally, the billet of the wrecking party. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
It may sound like myth, but it is a fact that a rat in one billet dragged an army mess kit across the floor -- they were some rats. From Wordnik.com. [The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces] Reference
What if she sent a tender billet to the young woman-hater, and said, 'Come and love me, if you have the heart and courage of a man.'. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Gone, those pals of three years in camp, trench, billet and shell hole; but we never knew how great a part of our life they had become. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918] Reference
But she became quite intractable and snubbed another agent who suggested a one day's billet in a tiny music-hall at a ridiculous price. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
After routine morning duties, Joe Mauser returned to his billet and mystified Max Mainz by not only changing into mufti himself but having. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
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