cadetship
Americannoun
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What had occurred, he asked, to make her feel renewed anxiety, to cause her to seek a cadetship for him?
From Under Fire by Cox, C. B.
He obtained a military cadetship through the kindness of Miss Coutts, and died at Calcutta on the last day of 1863, in his twenty-third year.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John
Still, even doting and distracted parents have been known to cherish such an ambition long months at a time, and to stimulate it by promises of "working all possible wires" to secure the much-desired cadetship.
From A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike by King, Charles
He received his early education at Taunton school, and was given a cadetship in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in 1848.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
He was intended for the Church, and spent a year at Oxford; but showed no clerical leanings, and found a more congenial profession when he obtained a cadetship in the Indian Army in 1842.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
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