The post of captain

Usage examples of captaincy.

Fawkes was given a position and became an alferez or ensign and by the summer of 1603 was being recommended for a captaincy.

Tears, of cockatrices shed: When the heart is vowed for freedom, Captaincy it yields to head.

The captaincy was most in dispute between Dietrich Schill and Berthold Schmidt, who, in the heat and constancy of contention, were gradually losing likeness to man.

Harry Price was the next most senior living officer, so Sharpe had made him into a Major and given Simon Doggett a Captaincy, though he had warned both men that the promotions might not stand up to the scrutiny of the civil servants in Whitehall.

Mal squirmed in his chair, reminding himself that this guy was his ticket to a captaincy and Chief DA's Investigator.

I told you the grand jury guarantees me a captaincy, Chief DA's Investigator and the prestige to keep my son?

We understand that he has obtained a captaincy in the _th regiment, about to march to the threatened seat of war.

XX Read that riddle, scorning pity's Tears, of cockatrices shed: When the heart is vowed for freedom, Captaincy it yields to head.

The Lions formed the rear guard together with the stoutest companies of light cavalry left to Bayan, now under the captaincy of Margrave Judith's second daughter and her admired troop of fighters.

British blockade and, under Killick's captaincy, the Thuella had become a thorn in the Royal Navy's self-esteem.

His bride was called Anne Nickerson, the daughter of an Essex landowner whose reluctant consent to an army marriage had turned to wholehearted approval when Peter d'Alembord had put up his captaincy for sale.

The captaincy would sell for fifteen hundred pounds which was a good enough fortune for any young man contemplating marriage, but a majority would fetch two thousand six hundred pounds, and so d'Alembord, with some misgivings, but reassured by the prospects of a fine marriage portion, had agreed to Ford's request.

I wear this uniform in virtue of a captaincy in the Austrian service, but I have never served in reality.

Once off the ship, the duke and duchess turned the captaincy of their army over to another necromancer, who shook his head at the sight of the cadavers and marched them off to effect what repairs he could.

Our present Captaincies might be declared hundreds for the present, with a power to the courts to alter them occasionally.