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cornet
1. Hence a lieutenant became a veld cornet or something and a lieutenant colonel a kommandant (that stayed until 1994)
2. To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, 5 That at what time you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut,
3. 8 Blow you the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after you,
4. I had a chocolate ice cream in a little cup and he had vanilla in a cornet
5. I watched, mesmerised, as he licked his way to the edge of the cornet and then ate the wafer like a KikKat
6. He was playing on the cornet and I was dancing
7. carrying the cornet to him
8. The first that stood up, to open the ball, were a cornet of horse, and
9. The first that stood up, to open the ball, were a cornet of horse, and that sweetest of olive-beauties, the soft and amorous Louisa
10. In July of 1912, Pat enlisted in the army and entered the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall, where he studied musical theory and learned to play both the cornet and the French horn, leaving aside his boxing gloves for now
11. The military band is arranged on the steps to the entrance of a building, an inked X identifies Pat and his cornet
12. The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an exception made, and Boris transferred into the regiment of Semenov Guards with the rank of cornet
13. Soon after Anna Pavlovna’s reception Anna Mikhaylovna returned to Moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the Rostovs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where and where her darling Bory, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being at once transferred to the Guards as a cornet, had been educated from childhood and lived for years at a time
14. Hussar cornet Zherkov had at one time, in Petersburg, belonged to the wild set led by Dolokhov
15. He waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned and went out
16. ‘I don’t myself know ‘to who,’’ replied the cornet in a serious tone, ‘but the prince told me
17. He knew from experience the tormenting expectation of terror and death the cornet was suffering and knew that only time could help him
18. A cornet, hearing the story, informed his commander
19. It may be that the chilled fingers faltered on the pistons of the cornet or at the valves of the French horn, that the time was irregular and that by an organ in a church, with a decorous congregation, the hymns they chose would have been better played and sung
20. There was a certain Cornet Stepanov, I must admit an extremely empty-headed worthless fellow not distinguished in any way
21. When Prince Sergaj' returned from the gambling saloon that night he wrote two letters—one to me, and the other to his old regiment, in which he had behaved so scandalously to Cornet Stepanov
22. “I have the honor to report myself, Cornet Kozeltzoff, 2d, ordered to the fifth light battery,” said Volodya, uttering the phrase which he had learned by heart, as he entered the room
23. "Give it me and you'll be made a cornet," says he
24. So you're here already,' said the cornet, with a careless nod
25. 'Yes, sir, exactly,' said the cornet, 'but I have a small business with you
26. 'Seeing that you are a gentleman,' began the cornet, 'and as I may understand myself to be in the rank of an officer too, and therefore we may always progressively negotiate, as gentlemen do
27. The cornet continued in the same strain for a long time
28. At last, not without difficulty, Olenin gathered that the cornet wished to let his rooms to him, Olenin, for six rubles a month
29. The cornet declined it
30. The cornet bowed, shook hands with Olenin, and went out
31. While Olenin was getting ready, he heard the cornet giving orders to his family in an authoritative and sensible tone, and a few minutes later he saw him pass by the window in a tattered coat with his trousers rolled up to his knees and a fishing net over his shoulder
32. He could not forget the cornet and kept on abusing him
33. Opposite her, on a spread-out horse-cloth, sat the cornet (who had returned from the school) washing his hands by pouring water on them from a little jug
34. The cornet wiped his hands, took off his cap, crossed himself, and moved nearer to the table
35. The cornet, having crossed himself once more, took a little jug of chikhir that stood behind him covered with a vine-leaf, and having had a drink from the mouth of the jug passed it to the old woman
36. 'That's not yet awhile,' said the cornet with a slight frown
37. 'No, I have not; but I spoke with the servant to-day,' said the cornet, 'and he said his master has again received a thousand rubles
38. 'Ah, you should go out there in that direction, go right as by compasses, there in a disused vineyard denominated as the Waste, hares are always to be found,' said the cornet, having at once changed his manner of speech
39. It's her old woman's silliness,' said the cornet, explaining and apparently correcting his wife's words
40. Among them was a smartly dressed young cornet, who happened to be in the village and who took command of the group of nine Cossacks who had joined for the expedition
41. All these Cossacks were privates, and although the cornet assumed the airs of a commanding officer, they only obeyed Lukashka
42. Of Olenin they took no notice at all, and when they had all mounted and started, and Olenin rode up to the cornet and began asking him what was taking place, the cornet, who was usually quite friendly, treated him with marked condescension
43. 'Ah, a good steed that!' said the cornet
44. The cornet became excited, and began giving orders to the Cossacks as to how they should divide and from which side they should approach
45. The cornet was pale and grew confused
46. The cornet listened to him and the corporal agreed
47. The cornet went up to him as if intending to pass by, and with a quick movement shot him in the ear
48. The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an exception made, and Borís transferred into the regiment of Semënov Guards with the rank of cornet
49. Soon after Anna Pávlovna’s reception Anna Mikháylovna returned to Moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the Rostóvs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling Bóry, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being at once transferred to the Guards as a cornet, had been educated from childhood and lived for years at a time
50. The hussar cornet of Kutúzov’s suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the carriage and rode up to Dólokhov