cornetcy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The king has appointed him to a cornetcy in the 3rd Royal Dragoon Guards, but he is going to be one of my aides-de-camp.
From With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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 Tolstoy, Leo, graf
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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
So they bought Mr. Ferdinand Fitzroy a cornetcy in the —— regiment of dragoons.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) by Various
In 1794 he was gazetted to a cornetcy in the Tenth Hussars, the gift of its colonel the Prince of Wales.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various
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