Sergeant-major

Watching him compose them, Sergeant-major Cyril Allinson reported: His face was very tired but calm as he wrote.

Lea Lane: Beautiful, Horrible Words on War Lea Lane 2010

Watching him compose them, Sergeant-major Cyril Allinson reported: His face was very tired but calm as he wrote.

Lea Lane: Beautiful, Horrible Words on War Lea Lane 2010

Sergeant-major Loaf assures me that you do business in such a way as well, which is why I have stopped at O to deal with you, if you are interested in performing the service I require.

Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010

Watching him compose them, Sergeant-major Cyril Allinson reported: His face was very tired but calm as he wrote.

Lea Lane: Beautiful, Horrible Words on War Lea Lane 2010

Sergeant-major was the highest rank an enlisted man could attain.

The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

Halfway across the room Rip turned suddenly and bumped into Sergeant-major

Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet Blake Savage

Sergeant-major Koa and his men had made it before the valve closed.

Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet Blake Savage

Sergeant-major Koa was seated against a vertical brace, his brown face wreathed in a grin as he waited for his new officer.

Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet Blake Savage

His conduct being excellent, he was appointed Sergeant-major in 1829.

The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson

It was long in coming, and they learned afterwards that the regimental Sergeant-major, whose duty it ought to have been to relieve them on that Christmas morning, was dead from dysentery, poor fellow, and as a matter of fact it turned out that he was buried in the muddy earth and half frozen in there before anybody remembered to take up his duty.

VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray