For the duration of this duty you are brevetted to the rank of sublieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [Between Planets]
Ensign was the lowest rank in the US Army until 1800; the naval rank of ensign wasn't used until 1862, and of course the British equivalent is still sublieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [princeofcairo: In Memoriam] Reference
The number of European troops in the Colony was fixed at 400 men-at-arms, divided into six companies, each under a captain, a sublieutenant, a sergeant, and two corporals. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Yesterday, half a million people met at Revolution Plaza to bid farewell to the sublieutenant who was killed by one of these criminals who hijacked a boat to travel to the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Fidel Castro's 8 Aug News Conference] Reference
Danlot quartered me with a young sublieutenant, or rokor and Ero Shan with another, with the understanding that we would have to sleep while these men were on duty, and give up the cabins to them when they returned to their quarters. From Wordnik.com. [Escape on Venus]
But it is hard to say, because although under age, he enlisted as an Ordinary Seaman on the outbreak of World War II, later going to the Fleet Air Arm as a telegraphist air gunner, earned a commission, and served overseas - at eighteen years of age probably the youngest sublieutenant in the RCNVR. From Wordnik.com. [Looking for Trouble] Reference
The sublieutenant hauled himself in turn to windward. From Wordnik.com. [Told in the East] Reference
"He says he wants a tow for that boat of his," reported the sublieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [Told in the East] Reference
As to my forefathers, they have always been a poor lot; my own father was a sublieutenant in the army. From Wordnik.com. [The Idiot] Reference
(Journal Particulier, by Count de Revel, sublieutenant in the regiment of Monsieur-Infanterie, p. 131.). From Wordnik.com. [Rochambeau and the French in America. I. From Unpublished Documents. VII] Reference
Momonoff raised a regiment for the state, and would only serve in it as a sublieutenant; a Countess Orloff, amiable and wealthy in the. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son.] Reference
One-third of the simple members of the corps enjoy the rank of captain, one-third that of lieutenant, and the remaining third that of sublieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
Hanoi - Authorities in northern Vietnam have arrested a police sublieutenant suspected of beating a man to death, a police official and state media reported. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
He was educated in his native city and at the School of Military Engineering at St. Petersburg, from which he graduated in 1843 with the grade of sublieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [Biographical Note] Reference
"It beats me how any man can keep a coat on him this weather," he remarked, and the sublieutenant noticed that the streams that ran down both his temples were not sea water. From Wordnik.com. [Told in the East] Reference
He became sublieutenant in the Thirty-fifth Regiment of infantry, and afterward, as lieutenant in the same corps, he signalized himself in Italy by a courage which was proof against everything. From Wordnik.com. [Renée Mauperin] Reference
The little boat had drifted fast before the wind, and the sublieutenant had to bellow through a megaphone to where the three men bailed and the ragged oarsmen swung their weight against the storm. From Wordnik.com. [Told in the East] Reference
So she sent one sublieutenant, whom the skipper kept very drunk, for he did not wish to make the tow too easy, and, moreover, he had an inconspicuous little rope hanging from the stem of his ship. From Wordnik.com. [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference
A young Count de Momonoff raised a regiment for the state, and would only serve in it as a sublieutenant; a Countess Orloff, amiable and wealthy in the Asiatic style, gave the fourth of her income. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Years' Exile]
Aboard Invincible, a sublieutenant was “struck by the magnificent weather conditions and, seizing my camera, climbed up the mast into the main top. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
I learned that when I was a sublieutenant. ". From Wordnik.com. [Tunnel In The Sky]
Again, if one of them wishes for some career, he must become a soldier: if he is a sublieutenant, he is the slave of the lieutenant; if he is a lieutenant, he is the slave of the captain, and the captain of the major, and so on up to the emperor, who is nobody's slave, but who one fine day is surprised at the table, while walking, or in his bed, and is poisoned, stabbed, or strangled. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Crimes (Complete)] Reference
This plan occurred to me, first, because I should not like to abandon literature, with which it is impossible for me to occupy myself in this camp life; and, secondly, because it seems to me I am beginning to become ambitious, or rather, not ambitious, but I should like to do some good, and, in order to do that, it is necessary to be something more than a sublieutenant; thirdly, because I should like to see you all and all my friends. From Wordnik.com. [Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood] Reference
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