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These Commissaries, one after another, from Mirbeck to Hédouville, have insulted the colony, and sown quarrels in it, from end to end.”

From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Martineau, Harriet

That the Commissaries are steeped to the lips in this horrible business has been amply shown in these paragraphs.

From The Crime of the Congo by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

"Commissaries will prepare twelve days' rations," was his order, which meant a long march, and the annihilation of Lee's army.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various

For the Commissaries seeing that their pacyent spake not at all, summoned the Gentlewoman to pay the Penaltye pronounced in the Edict, or else to loose hyr lyfe.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William

The Commissaries could no longer refuse, and Bonaparte was appointed colonel of artillery.

From Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Alison, Archibald, Sir