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Second lieutenant

noun

A commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps holding the lowest rank. Synonym: 2nd lieutenant.

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... at its height when Strahan entered, dressed plainly in the uniform of a second lieutenant. He was greeted with a shout of laughter by the young men, who knew him well, and by a cordial pressure from Marian's hand. This made the gauntlet which he knew he must run of little consequence to him. All except Lane drew up and gave ...

— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe

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... a long sight. Just go in for a commission as second lieutenant of marines. You can get that and hold it. A marine officer doesn't have to know anything but the manual of arms and a ...

— Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock

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... sun was an hour old, by which time too the rain had stopped falling, the second lieutenant of the Dolphin was transferred to the command of the captured dhow, our 'First Swab' having been wounded, taking with him all the prisoners that had been previously removed to our vessel for safety, although they were now bound securely ...

— The Penang Pirate - and, The Lost Pinnace • John Conroy Hutcheson

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... vive till daylight, and prepared for the combat. The fishing implements were laid along the hammock nettings. The second lieutenant loaded the blunder busses, which could throw harpoons to the distance of a mile, and long duck-guns, with explosive bullets, which inflicted mortal wounds even to the most terrible animals. Ned Land contented himself with sharpening his harpoon—a ...

— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne

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... as clear as a razor hollowed and carved away by the water long ago. And the grass is as high as a stirrup and the trees very plentiful after the plains of Texas. The men at Fort Reno were the best I have met, indeed I am just a little tired of trying to talk of things of interest to the Second Lieutenant's intellect. But I had to leave there because I had missed the beef issue and had to see it and as it was due here I pushed on. This post is very beautiful but the men are very young and civil appointments mainly, which means that they have not been to West Point ...

— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis

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