staff-sergeant

The staff-sergeant fitter returned with a ten-foot stove-pipe that he had found in the neighbouring village; and before ten o'clock our first mess fire since the end of April was crackling merrily and burning up spare ammunition boxes.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

It was only the year before that he, then a staff-sergeant, had handed over that district to Inspector

Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth

"These confounded feet of mine!" grunted the staff-sergeant.

The Valley of Silent Men James Oliver Curwood 1903

O'Connor, staff-sergeant, was like one struck dumb.

The Valley of Silent Men James Oliver Curwood 1903

More than once they had worked out enigmas of this kind together, and the staff-sergeant saw the old, eager glow in his eyes.

The Valley of Silent Men James Oliver Curwood 1903

He had made fun of O'Connor when the big staff-sergeant had described the effect of the girl's eyes on Inspector Kedsty.

The Valley of Silent Men James Oliver Curwood 1903

The staff-sergeant was not easily excited, yet he was visibly disturbed now.

The Valley of Silent Men James Oliver Curwood 1903

When the door closed again, the staff-sergeant was in the room alone with Kent.

The Valley of Silent Men James Oliver Curwood 1903

He has been in the Dublin Fusiliers, and a lieutenant in Weatherby's Horse, enlisted in the 5th Lancers, and rose from private to staff-sergeant, and ten months later would have had his commission.

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

He has been in the Dublin Fusiliers, and a lieutenant in Weatherby's Horse, enlisted in the 5th Lancers, and rose from private to staff-sergeant, and ten months later would have had his commission.

An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma George Ernest Morrison 1891