Lieut.
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Elaine Fairless ; both for the second time; in Huntington, W. Va. Lieut. and Mrs. Fairless attended the bridal couple.
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Lieut. null fighter snapped to bits in mid-air when something, possibly the propeller, broke.
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But his eyes take in the situation, while he asks the question, and Rosser's answer, "Lieut., some rascal has filled my bugle and it's full of ice," is really not needed.
From A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A. by James Robert Maxwell
That he this Deponent shewed said Lieut. his Licence telling him at the same time that they were Spaniards and the Vessel and Cargoe Span'h property, From whence they came and whither Bound.
From Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents by J. Franklin (John Franklin) Jameson
At this town we left a small garrison of one Capt., one Lieut. and fifty men, exclusive of invalids, with some flour, horses and cattle.
From The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade by John Leonard Hardenbergh
Fl Lieut Stark told the coroner that he did not have a full memory of the actual moment he ejected from the aircraft.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2021
They ran out of their tunnel and hid under a bridge where Lieut.
From Fox News ● Jun. 3, 2019
The story that Mr. Gray has chosen seems an unlikely candidate for such revisionism because it turns on Lieut.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2017
“We’re seeing initial successes in this fight,” Army Lieut.
From Time ● Dec. 19, 2014
I cannot but Approve of your having Permitted Captain Campbell and Lieut.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
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