cornetcy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He was sent to Eton and to Trinity College, and a cornetcy was bought for him in the Grenadier Guards.
From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall
Rostov, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought Denisov's horse, Bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and the sutlers.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
He reached home to find that his mother, who believed in keeping young men employed, had procured him a cornetcy in Lord Lomond's Troop of Horse.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Mrs. H—— became very desirous of procuring for her eldest son a cornetcy in the regiment once commanded by his father; as she was now too poor to purchase, the matter required management and negotiation.
From The Lumley Autograph by Susan Fenimore Cooper
Luckily, they found me out before the ship sailed, and made the best of a bad bargain by purchasing me a cornetcy in a dragoon regiment.
From In the Days of My Youth by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
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