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general's adjutant
noun as in adjutant general
Example Sentences
At the sight of the general's adjutant, the 'sbirri' had quickly vanished.
He was likewise a great deal too easy as to the satisfaction he demanded, for all he asked was to see the landlord and the 'sbirri' beg his pardon on their knees in the presence of the general's adjutant.
I had been in the coffee-house for half an hour when the general's adjutant came to tell me that his excellency ordered me to put myself under arrest on board the bastarda, a galley on which the prisoners had their legs in irons like galley slaves.
The officer at once placed four-and-twenty soldiers at the disposal of the General's adjutant.
Only three of them were mounted, the General's adjutant, Kamienszka, and himself, all the rest were on foot.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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