colonies
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But since both husband and wife may rise to colonelcies, the family income may conceivably total $58.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frankfort, Ky. For further news concerning Kentucky and its colonelcies, see p. 34.�ED.
From Time Magazine Archive
To that end, a selection board has lately scanned a list of some 800 majors and lieutenant colonels, recommended the best of them for temporary promotions to colonelcies.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sovereign, foreign sovereigns, royal princes and others, hold honorary colonelcies, as colonels-in-chief or honorary colonels of many regiments.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
He moved large reductions in the salaries of the commander-in-chief and the military secretary, in respect of their holding incomes from colonelcies, and repeated his motion in 1871.
From Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities by Jeans, J. Stephen (James Stephen)
