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But the head nurseship of a hospital serjeant is the more essential, the more important, the more inexperienced the nurses.

Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 1860

For the serjeant was a rising man, and Lady Demolines was not exactly progressing in the world.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

This artifice, to which he is impelled by towering ambition, the serjeant seems disposed to connive at -- and the serjeant is a hero, and a great man in his way; "your hero always must be tall, you know."

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler

At last, calling the serjeant aside, I asked him, 'If I was too old to be accepted in place of my son?'

The Man of Feeling Henry Mackenzie 1788

Why the serjeant is a scholar to be sure, and has the gift of reading.

St. Patrick's day, or, the scheming lieutenant : a farce in one act Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1783

The following was the procession of the 3d J Regt on the aforesaid day first one serjeant drest in an

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Rather like prefects in a well-run school, or serjeant-majors in the army, they find out what the masters/officers cannot.

The Spectator's Notes 2009

I suspected that the serjeant might have rode past him asleep under the tree; I therefore got three volunteers to go with me, and look for him.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

He had been thirty-one years a soldier, twelve times a corporal, nine times a serjeant; but an unfortunate attachment to the bottle always returned him into the ranks.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

Sent the serjeant after Bloore on one of the horses; he rode back as far as Sankaree without seeing him, and concluded he had lost the path.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008