top sergeant

Historical Examples

• When Newt scowled in that fashion the top-sergeant was troubled with apprehension.

  The Code of the Mountains

  Charles Neville Buck

• His top-sergeant had seen to that, even though the soldier had surreptitiously sought to slip a revolver inside his army shirt.

  The Code of the Mountains

  Charles Neville Buck

• Top-Sergeant Peter Spooner glanced at that scowl, and a faint frown crossed his own features.

  The Code of the Mountains

  Charles Neville Buck

• If he paused even a second in his reports a top-sergeant's yell from the Colonel's throat came back for him to keep talking.

  Shipwreck in the Sky

  Eando Binder

• Then early in the afternoon my top-sergeant got a bayonet, and a hand-grenade got a group of my non-commissioned officers.

  Soldier Silhouettes on our Front

  William L. Stidger