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Sergeant

noun

Any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal.

A lawman with the rank of sergeant. Synonym: police sergeant.

An English barrister of the highest rank. Synonyms: sergeant-at-law, serjeant, serjeant-at-law.

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"Sergeant" Quotes from Famous Books

... really doing higher work. You are supposed to make the decisions and give the orders; but the negresses and the Chinese make up your minds for you and tell you what orders to give, just as my brother, who was a sergeant in the Guards, used to prompt his officers in the old days. When I want to get anything done at the Health Ministry I do not come to you: I go to the black lady who has been the real president during your present ...

— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw

... French lisp, her soft little red mouth, and Amor vincit omnia graven on her brooch. Learning is there in the portly person of the doctor of physics, rich with the profits of the pestilence—the busy sergeant-of-law, 'that ever seemed busier than he was'—the hollow-cheeked clerk of Oxford with his love of books and short sharp sentences that disguise a latent tenderness which breaks out at last in the story of Griseldis. Around them crowd types of English industry; the merchant; ...

— Inns and Taverns of Old London • Henry C. Shelley

... "The sergeant is inquiring for you," said Abram Atwater, with his mild, pleasant smile, calling him out ...

— The Drummer Boy • John Trowbridge

... was brilliant and unprecedented. In his first contest he met the foremost orator of the age, Sergeant Prentiss, and vanquished him on his own ground. In two years he took his seat in Congress, the favorite son ...

— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon

... the spirit's long since been a "goner," Though the uttermost heel-tap be drained, I will give them a place of high honour, Well knowing that once they contained My solace when seasons were rotten, When the cold put my courage to flight, Or the sergeant, perchance, had forgotten To kiss ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, April 14, 1920 • Various

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