war-office

The reply was equally unsatisfactory, the fact being that Haubitz senior, like an implacable old savage as he was, had made interest at the war-office for the refusal of all such requests on the part of his scapegrace offspring.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

The managers of the war-office were doomed to similar attacks as those of the admiralty.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

_Don't tread on me_, which is yet partially retained in the seal of the war-office.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

Von Breuning, who always had a faculty of being of service to Beethoven, was a counsellor in the war-office.

Beethoven A Character Study Fischer, George A 1905

Taking a war-office map, he divided it into small squares, which he visited one after the other, entering the farmhouses making the peasants talk, calling on the schoolmasters, the mayors, the parish priests, chatting to the women.

The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin Maurice Leblanc 1902

Precisely at the time Courtlandt stepped into the automobile outside the war-office, a scene, peculiar in character, but inconspicuous in that it did not attract attention, was enacted in the Gare de l'Est.

The Place of Honeymoons Harold MacGrath 1901

I heard years ago of a young Englishman who disputed in Berlin the war-office plans of his father's estate.

The Audacious War 1891

French war-office records, on Jewish vital statistics, 175

History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886

I seem to see him now, leaning against the railing that divides the war-office from the White House, while the carriage is waiting at the door, and listening to the grievance of a plain man, then sitting down upon the coping and writing on a card an order to have the case investigated and remedied.

Abraham Lincoln; His Life and Its Lessons 1865

In spite of continued visits to the war-office, and an amount of importunity which must have been exceedingly annoying to the gentlemen of the red tape, I found myself, at the end of August, apparently no nearer to an

Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee John Esten Cooke 1858