Example Sentences

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"See if I don't get promoted to a sublieutenancy."

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Shortly after this he was promoted to a sublieutenancy.

From Maximilian in Mexico A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 by Stevenson, Sara Yorke