I shouted through the window for the sergeant-major.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

Then the sergeant-major placed a shilling in my hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle] Reference

Being the senior sergeant, I acted as sergeant-major.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle] Reference

He inflated the suit again and thanked the sergeant-major weakly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference

He, too, was a sergeant-major of a line regiment in the old army.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference

The sergeant-major would see that the men ate when they wanted to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference

In the same year (1887), I was appointed sergeant-major of the 57th.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle] Reference

"Won't you wait and have breakfast, sir?" asked the sergeant-major.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

The captain took to his heels, but the sergeant-major was captured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

He adjusted his sighting rings while the sergeant-major glided away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference

The sergeant-major gave me an opportunity to see my relatives there.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle] Reference

"Some more recruits, sir," said his sergeant-major, opening the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference

"Splendid idea, sir," said the sergeant-major, saluting and falling out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference

Evidently the sergeant-major had been doing some calculations of his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference

Meanwhile, a superb sergeant-major of the National Guard, newly equipped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Get him up, "advised the colonel," the sergeant-major can carry on there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

"What is the trouble, men?" inquired Elder, with the air of a sergeant-major.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity] Reference

I told her, exultingly, that I was appointed sergeant-major of our battalion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Reed, and during their conversation asked Mr. Reed who his sergeant-major was.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle] Reference

So I cantered out and spent the night, turning my men over to a sergeant-major.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference

The sergeant-major had a final hunt round, and then gave the order "Walk march!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

"He was a gunner in my battery when I was sergeant-major of ---- Battery, R.H.A.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

He hoped the sergeant-major had sense enough to be waiting at some sensible place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference

The sergeant-major admitted that, strictly speaking, this was a correct statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

The rough beard and cap of an irresistible sergeant-major were the ruin of the girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

He was a sergeant-major in a certain famous regiment of the line in the British Army.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference

It was six in the morning, and I told the sergeant-major to have breakfast up at 7.30.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

I asked the sergeant-major to trot ahead and let me know how much farther we had to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

He was later promoted to sergeant-major and lost a leg in the storming of Fort Blakeley.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference

The fate of the sergeant-major I have not heard yet, though it is not difficult to guess.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference

What had become of the sergeant-major with the waggon that was to gather up our left kit?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

Down below the regimental sergeant-major was loading up the G.S. waggon and the Maltese cart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

"And you made no attempt to prevent it trotting until the sergeant-major told you to stop it?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

"Take off your coat," said the sergeant-major with emphasis, at the same time throwing off his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference