brevet

How To Use brevet In A Sentence

• He had been promoted to captain, and later he was brevetted major for ‘gallant and meritorious service’.
• He was often breveted for gallantry, and became quartermaster general of the U.S. Army.
• One handful of twilight was left, but Brevet General Thurman Dynamics fit skeet shooting into his day.
• We would have expected a bit more clearance for chubbier, sportive-friendly tyres 25s or maybe even 28s and single mudguard eyelets also wouldn't hurt – performance is never compromised with slightly larger tyres, and the likelihood of a 566 Origin owner doing a wet brevet/grand fondo/sportive is high. Archive 2009-07-01
• This notch on a stick was the Indian mode of gazetting a warrior; and a certain number of these notches was pretty certain to procure for him a sort of savage brevet, which answered his purpose quite as well as the modern mode of brevetting at Washington answers our purpose. Oak Openings
• It was rumored that she was brevetted a colonel, but there is no evidence of this.
• A musical test was instituted at the examination for the Brevet superieur [252] which made the study of solfeggio a more serious matter in the Ecoles Normales. Musicians of To-Day
• The ex - convict Brevet wore the black and gray waistcoat of the central prisons.
• One of the topics, Beyond the Century, mentioned race across america and brevets. BSNYC Fidray Fun Quiz!
• Lorimer; she was not more than seventeen when the poet made her acquaintance, and though she had got a sort of brevet-right from an officer of the army, to use his southron name of Whelpdale, she loved best to be addressed by her maiden designation, while the poet chose to veil her in the numerous lyrics, to which she gave life, under the names of "Chloris," "The lass of Craigie-burnwood," and "The lassie wi 'the lintwhite locks. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham