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The long cloud of gentlemen, breaking into fragments, mixed with the rainbow line of ladies; two or three officer-like men approached the King and conversed with him.

Villette 2003

In the Military Colleges, over and above academics, cadets are failed for lack of physical fitness, for lack of officer-like qualities, and in military studies.

Canada's Military Colleges 1965

From now on he proposed to manifest very active officer-like behavior.

The Other Side Of Nowhere Leinster, Murray 1964

Captain Dixon shewed the greatest courage, and officer-like conduct, in placing his ship on the enemy's bow, as she had only three hundred men on board, and the enemy one thousand two hundred and twenty.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

I should judge, stepped up to me in officer-like style.

A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

Admiral Hotham, in his dispatches to government, inclosing the account of this business which he had received from Captain Nelson, handsomely remarks that "his officer-like conduct upon this, and indeed upon every occasion, where his services are called forth, reflects on him the highest credit."

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

Agamemnon; who, by his spirited and officer-like conduct, saved the

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

New Jersey and Kansas stand proudly apart, officer-like, on the opposite side of the avenue; the regimental canteen, in the shape of the Southern Restaurant, jostling them rather too closely.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various

I cannot but notice the active exertions and officer-like conduct of Lieutenant Gordon, and the other lieutenants of the

The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat

He advanced in the most prompt and officer-like style, and in a few minutes was in close action upon the plain, with a superior force of British regular troops.

The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat