Noun : sergeant of the larder; sergeant-caterer. From Dictionary.com.
But the head nurseship of a hospital serjeant is the more essential, the more important, the more inexperienced the nurses. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not] Reference
Why the serjeant is a scholar to be sure, and has the gift of reading. From Wordnik.com. [St. Patrick's day, or, the scheming lieutenant : a farce in one act] Reference
For the serjeant was a rising man, and Lady Demolines was not exactly progressing in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
At last, calling the serjeant aside, I asked him, 'If I was too old to be accepted in place of my son?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Man of Feeling] Reference
It could soften the ferocity of your highland serjeant. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 2, 5 October 1758 - 9 April 1759] Reference
At the same time he sent a serjeant with the tailor to find him. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
He was placed under the care of the serjeant of Marines, who instructed. From Wordnik.com. [Kalli, the Esquimaux Christian A Memoir] Reference
He is a serjeant in one of the Companies of some Battalion or other here. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 23 April 1776] Reference
I fear, the serjeant was shot on his way, as I heard nothing of him afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1] Reference
Boutell has figured this brass, which he states to be that of a serjeant-at-law. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
A serjeant said -- "You are a traitor; what have you been talking to the enemy?". From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1] Reference
A serjeant, Corporal & 12 men daily to mount as a guard at Gen. Nixon's quarters. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
A young pig was shot by a serjeant; the mother and the rest of the family escaped. From Wordnik.com. [The Wreck on the Andamans] Reference
Sir John Maynard (1602-90), 'the king's eldest serjeant, but advanced no farther'. From Wordnik.com. [Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles] Reference
He had tried to force the serjeant-major to take him to the room in which she was. From Wordnik.com. [The Guermantes Way] Reference
The serjeant, a Syrio-Frank named Malik, said nothing, but Sabin sensed his relief. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
The serjeant of the guard came to the door, and asked whether this was the Moravian meeting?. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
In the back-ground is a serjeant, teaching a company of young recruits their manual exercise. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
He had been dreaming, he explained to me, that he was in the country with the serjeant-major. From Wordnik.com. [The Guermantes Way] Reference
A dollar was demanded of each on leaving prison, and they were conducted by a single serjeant. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
He is weaponed rather in the street, than the highway, for he fears not a thief, but a serjeant. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
By her mother she was taught to read, and a well-informed serjeant made her acquainted with writing. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
They appointed a serjeant-major their major-general, and at a given signal on the morning of the 1st of. From Wordnik.com. [The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773] Reference
The serjeant and the tailor went immediately, and brought the barber, whom they presented to the sultan. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
The Duke of Montrose, as master of the horse to the King, performed the office of serjeant of the silver scullery. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
The serjeant added, he had the happiness to fall into the hands of a good master, who favoured his escape to Mobile. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
He then brought actions against the speaker and the serjeant-at-arms, but the courts upheld the action of the House. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
A learned serjeant, since a judge, being once asked what he would do if a man owed him £10, and refused to pay him. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection] Reference
Such was the account the serjeant himself gave me of the fight, and I have no reason to suspect him of exaggeration. From Wordnik.com. [A Peep into Toorkisthhan] Reference
The serjeant led the horses away to the stables with the instruction to bring the baggage pack along to the hall later. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
The guard on board the Runnymede was now formed by convalescent soldiers, being one serjeant and six privates of the 80th. From Wordnik.com. [The Wreck on the Andamans] Reference
The serjeant of the guard, quite a civil man, advised to take all loose things out of the chapel before the prisoners came in. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
A little time after, a serjeant of the garrison of the Illinois arrived at New Orleans, who reported, that, in consequence of the. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
He was quick to learn, adept and resourceful He would make a fine serjeant - perhaps even rise to knighthood one day … if he lived. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Malone, prime serjeant; Dilks, the quarter-master general; and abolishing the pension of Boyle, a near relative of the obnoxious speaker. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference
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