adjutant stork

But the stork was cruel and would not heed him, and led Cedric a weary chase through the marshes and the brakes.

Stuckup, great tall stork of a woman, that lords it over a man as though she was a goddess.

Mr. Wright, my Adjutant, saw one strike in a puddle between him and myself as we marched at the head of the Regiment.

"You may be thankful if you don't get those two young alligators in the other tank," said a gruff-voiced adjutant.

That was a difficulty at first, as neither the adjutant's nor my book gave the French for bacon.