King's Regulations
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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By King's Regulations an officer under arrest may wear neither sword nor spurs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The peacetime R.A.F. would not have Bader without legs, but when war began, not even the King's Regulations could hold him back.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once he slipped into anecdote à propos of the helplessness of British soldiers in any matter outside the scope of the King's Regulations.
From The Wings of the Morning by Tracy, Louis
But the subject of the King's Regulations was even more distasteful to the cuddy than Pine's interminable anecdotes, and Mrs. Vickers hastened to change the subject.
From For the Term of His Natural Life by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop
I fined him for neglecting to observe the King's Regulations and Orders, and his comrades who had warned him against trying to "put anything over" on the Commanding Officer gave him the laugh.
From "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders by Currie, John Allister
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