brevet
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I hereby grant you the rank of brevet colonel in the army of the level-headed, Pacific Command.
From Fox News ● Nov. 27, 2019
Rolling in after 407km, we got our brevet cards stamped and tucked into warming bowls of homemade daal.
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2018
The use of brevet jurists was proposed last year by the American Board of Trial Advocates, an association of Western lawyers.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his own absence from Washington, Johnson has increasingly relied on the Defense Secretary to act as unofficial brevet deputy President.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Confederate authorities gave him the rank of captain by brevet.
From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger
By the time the Big Parade was over, Hero York had been lionized, publicized, feted, decorated and breveted "the one-man army."
From Time Magazine Archive
What with the pilots already breveted, and the élèves, or pupils in the training-schools, there were quite enough of our compatriots to man the dozen airplanes in one escadrille.
From Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun by James R. (James Rogers) McConnell
I am not a sentimentalist; therefore it is not a great consolation to me to see all these people breveted as “Heroes” by the penny and halfpenny Press.
From Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad
Before that day had ended Roderick Hardinge was breveted a Major.
From The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 by John Lespérance
In the Civil War he was colonel of the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was breveted a general.
From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street
A dog hunting through a wood is always said to be "breveting."
From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs
After the war’s end, Otis was brevetted with the rank of lieutenant colonel by his commander Rutherford B. Hayes, who commended Otis for his “gallantry and meritorious services.”
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2016
Into the breach sped an army of energetic amateurs who were soon brevetted with official status.
From Time Magazine Archive
That Peter Junior had come home brevetted a captain for his bravery 66 crowned him with glory.
From The Eye of Dread by Payne Erskine
Born in 1842, he served during the Civil War, and was brevetted major for distinguished services.
From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various
He took part in the Mexican War, and was brevetted Captain for gallant services.
From A History of the Republican Party by George Washington Platt
