drill sergeant

Prince may have pranced around like a carefree libertine onstage, but in rehearsal he was more drill sergeant than sprite.

As I forced my exhausted body to exercise, I yelled at my legs like a drill sergeant, demanding five more minutes or one more set.

No, Drill Sergeant, I'm not religious, but I'm not saying I don't believe in God.

In a casual atmosphere, up to 12 guests get personal attention and gentle encouragement, rather than drill-sergeant discipline.

Shuck went on to become a drill sergeant and Gabe was assigned to a new handler.

A nation, with wonderful powers of thinking, it was a nation that ceased to think when the call of the drill sergeant came.

Very large schools and classes of an unwieldy size tend to turn the teacher into a mere drill sergeant.

Forethought, even as of a pipe-clayed drill-sergeant, did not preside over thee.

All of the same size divided into squads, each in the hands of a drill sergeant.

The state is a bloodless abstraction, which as a rule only materialises as a drill-sergeant or a tax-collector.