Example Sentences

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"At your service, sir," said Diogenes gaily, "I am saluting a greater blackguard than I can ever hope to be myself."

From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

I am saluting a brave officer, whose orders I have obeyed in a hard fight, and to whom I and my comrades probably owed our lives.

From Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War by Paget, Walter