Noun, : His adjutancy allows him certain privileges. From Dictionary.com.
I was offered the adjutancy, and I accepted it rejoicingly. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
Henry is still hankering after the Regulars, and as his project of purchasing the adjutancy of the. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Captain Lowndes, the adjutant, who had been home after his severe wound at Talana, now rejoined the regiment, and took over the adjutancy from Captain Fetherstonhaugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
Oxfordshire is now over, he has got a scheme in his head about getting a lieutenancy and adjutancy in the 86th, a new-raised regiment, which he fancies will be ordered to the Cape of Good Hope. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
I immediately offered the vacant adjutancy to Captain Warren, but he declined it, saying that he now had the cares of a company on his shoulders and was taking a great deal of enjoyment out of it. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
He was given the coveted cadet adjutancy of his corps. From Wordnik.com. [Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers] Reference
He was appointed to an ensigncy and adjutancy, and came to Canada. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems.] Reference
They've shelved me at the War Office; they talk about a home adjutancy. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdom of the Blind] Reference
A few months after his marriage he accepted an adjutancy in the Northumberland Yeomanry. From Wordnik.com. [Sir John French]
However, very soon the new governor-general gave him the adjutancy of his own regiment, then at. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Book of Heroes] Reference
In 1809 he succeeded to a lieutenancy; and resigned the adjutancy to command a small detachment in the field. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems.] Reference
This breaking away from the 'traditional' policy of adjutancy-in-waiting to the Central Powers was indicated by the visit of. From Wordnik.com. [The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey] Reference
He is just succeeding in obtaining what is called an 'adjutancy,' which, with the half pay, will put an end to many anxieties. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett]
He has been offish to me ever since our first meeting here, and was one of the men whose failure to congratulate me on the adjutancy I felt. From Wordnik.com. [Marion's Faith.] Reference
But he did not know that soon after Truscott's resignation the colonel had tendered the adjutancy to Ray, and that impolitic youth had promptly declined. From Wordnik.com. [Marion's Faith.] Reference
It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division, in which (I speak it with submission) the old marshals were as able as the modern martinets. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)] Reference
To his great joy a few months later his eldest son was given the adjutancy of the 10th Foot, and he himself was promoted to various posts where the pay was good and the work light. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Book of Heroes] Reference
At Mount Vernon George must have heard much of fighting as a lad, and when the ill health of Lawrence compelled resignation of command of the district militia, the younger brother succeeded to the adjutancy. From Wordnik.com. [The True George Washington]
It was all well enough where Bucketts was concerned; he had been quartermaster for years and no one expected anything else, but there were those in the regiment who hoped there might be a change in the adjutancy. From Wordnik.com. [Marion's Faith.] Reference
This cost the 'Lord of the White Elephant' nothing, and did no good to Havelock; and six months after the troops left Burmah he was glad to accept the adjutancy of a regiment in a pleasant part of India, near some friends. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Book of Heroes] Reference
Captain Erskine E. Boyce had been relieved as regimental adjutant and assigned as captain of Headquarters Company, Captain Westfeldt, of Headquarters Company, going to the regimental adjutancy and becoming also regimental operations officer. From Wordnik.com. [History of the 113th Field Artillery 30th Division] Reference
Stryker would get the detail as soon as he returned from abroad, whither he had gone on leave after making, as mountain scout leader, the best four years 'record in the regiment; but Stryker came just as Billings did, and to Billings, not Stryker, was the adjutancy tendered. From Wordnik.com. [Marion's Faith.] Reference
Henry is still hankering after the Regulars, and as his project of purchasing the adjutancy of the Oxfordshire is now over, he has got a scheme in his head about getting a lieutenancy and adjutancy in the 86th, a new-raised regiment, which he fancies will be ordered to the Cape of Good Hope. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others] Reference
Of course, he had heard by that time just why Truscott had resigned and refused to re-accept the position; he also knew that the colonel had said that he could give it to no officer who had not served with them in the rough days in Arizona; and, moreover, that he had once declared that offering the adjutancy to a second lieutenant was equivalent to saying that no first lieutenant was capable of performing the duties. From Wordnik.com. [Marion's Faith.] Reference
Each, however, had cordially liked the other, and Billings would have been slow to believe the statement as told him for a single instant except for two things, -- one was that Gleason was a new acquaintance of whom up to that time he knew nothing really discreditable; the other was that just before the regiment came East from Arizona the adjutancy became vacant, Lieutenant Truscott, who had long held the position, was detailed for duty at West Point and speedily promoted to his captaincy; Billings was brought in wounded and sent off by sea to San Francisco as soon as he could travel, and so heard little of the particulars of some strange mystery that was going on at regimental headquarters, and when, some months later, he rejoined the regiment in Kansas, it was with much mental perturbation that he received from "Old Catnip" the offer of the still vacant adjutancy. From Wordnik.com. [Marion's Faith.] Reference
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