Colonel
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195 examples of Colonel in a sentence
"I think if we had the thing to do over again," continued the colonel, raising himself on his feet, "we might alter the case very materially, though the chief thing the rebels have now to boast of is my capture; they were repulsed, you saw, in their attempt to drive us from the wood."
"At least they would have been, had they made an attack," said the captain, throwing the rest of his clothes within reach of the
colonel.
"True - true," cried the colonel, with animation.
"We will not differ about terms, sir," said the colonel, haughtily.
"If anything can sweeten captivity and wounds, it must be the happiness of suffering in the society of the ladies who have left us," gallantly observed the colonel, as he resumed his seat after closing the door.
The
colonel
bowed.
"You must have observed the dreadful havoc made in your ranks by the men who were led by this gentleman"; the
colonel
looked grave, again; "how, when blows lighted on their frames, life was invariably extinguished, beyond all hope of scientific reparation; how certain yawning wounds were inflicted, that must set at defiance the art of the most experienced practitioner; now, sir, to you I triumphantly appeal, therefore, to know whether your detachment would not have been as effectually defeated, if the men had all lost a right arm, for instance, as if they had all lost their heads."
"I am yet to learn that the cause of liberty is in any manner advanced by the services of any gentleman in the rebel army," rejoined the
colonel.
This argument, which is thought by most of the
colonel'
s countrymen a triumphant answer to a thousand eloquent facts, lost none of its weight by the manner in which it was uttered.
asked the colonel, impressively.
"You will except Great Britain," cried the colonel, proudly.
All the ordinary topics of conversation were exhausted, when the colonel, with a little of the uneasiness that is in some degree inseparable from conscious error, touched lightly on the transactions of the preceding day.
"And yet the pleasure of such society as this accident has introduced me to, would more than repay the pain of a mortified spirit and wounded body," added the colonel, in a manner of peculiar softness.
"Trifling, indeed, compared to the former," returned the colonel, in the same manner.
She, however, turned her eyes on the colonel, and saw him gazing at her fine face with an admiration that was quite as manifest, and much more soothing, than any words could make it.
A little nettled at the contumacious deportment of the British colonel, Sitgreaves, after once more tendering services that were again rejected, withdrew to the chamber of young Singleton, whither Lawton had already preceded him.
Wellmere sprang to receive the hand that, with an averted face, she extended towards him, and, for the first time, the English
colonel
appeared fully conscious of the important part that he was to act in the approaching ceremony.
The English
colonel
exhibited a proper portion of uneasiness at this unexpected interruption of his felicity, and he sat with a varying countenance by the side of Sarah, who seemed to be profiting by the delay to gather fortitude for the solemn ceremony.
inquired the colonel, leaning towards her with paternal interest.
asked the colonel, in a suppressed voice, avoiding the penetrating looks of his companions.
"But you wrote him - you urged the visit; surely, young lady, you wished to see your brother?" added the impatient
colonel.
"With whom!" exclaimed the colonel, turning pale, and shrinking as from the sting of an adder.
lovely innocent, forbear!" said the colonel, with strong emotion; "you injure none, but distress us all."
"It is impossible," repeated the colonel, in a voice that was nearly choked.
Hear me,
Colonel
Singleton; as God will listen to your dying prayers, hear me, and spare my brother!""Remove her," said the colonel, gently endeavoring to extricate his hand; but none appeared disposed to obey.
"Lead on, gentlemen," said the colonel, motioning towards the door, and erecting himself into an air of military grandeur, in the vain hope of quieting his feelings.
One of the judges placed in his hand a written sentence, that he had prepared while the
colonel
was engaged with Frances, and declared it to be the opinion of himself and his companion.
"Then to Washington will I go," cried the colonel, returning the paper with his signature; "and if the services of an old man like me, or that brave boy of mine, entitle me to his ear, I will yet save the youth."
"Softly, softly, gentlemen," returned the
colonel.
"A very plausible plan," cried the colonel, "and one that must succeed; but let a messenger be dispatched to Dunwoodie, or he may continue at the ferry until it proves too late; though doubtless the runaways will lie in the mountains to-night."
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