Bilko and Pepper

Usage examples of noncoms.

Trailed by his bugler, the squadron colors and a couple of supernumerary junior noncoms, Gaib was leading his charger, which appeared on the verge of throwing a shoe, toward a still-unpacked traveling forge, his lips moving in curses at well-bred bumpkins who carried their feelings ill balanced on their armguards and gave not one damn for his military rank, rendering him what little deference they did only because he was heir to a Kindred vahrohnos.

A mindspoken warning from one of the lancer noncoms caused him to glance back the way they had come yesterday, at the body of mounted men now approaching, a bedraggled-looking lot from what he could see of them.

Except in combat, they would argue with noncoms, officers, captains, and any grade of nobility, deferring only to those few who had earned respect.

One of the mercenary noncoms claimed that they stood atop the ruins of one of the Cities of the Gods.

When what was left of their Black Horse compatriots came straggling back to the capital, Demetriosin the grip of one of the screaming, tooth-gnashing fits, which had possessed him since childhood whenever he was thwarted or disappointedordered the common troopers killed and the surviving noncoms thrown into his dungeon to await his pleasure.

When two more weeks went by without even a token payment, the entire squadron packed, armed, mounted, and after freeing the Black Horse noncoms, rode out of Kehnooryos Atheenahs unopposed.

Klahrk and his noncoms redoubled their efforts, for the more depth the formation possessed, the better their chances were of stopping the horsemen.