Word: commandeering
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...schoolteacher, it seemed, was recently examining him in grammar and desired to elicit the information that, in Italian, a verb may take the imperative mood in the second or third person but not in the first. "Now Bruno," said the examiner, "tell me in what person one cannot command...
Bruno, obviously puzzled and apparently ignorant upon this point of grammar, showed himself the smart son of a smart sire by replying: "There are two persons one cannot command, the King and my father...
Prints of some of Audubon's bird engravings now command many thousands of dollars. Audubon murals would have been a priceless haul for a natural history or art museum; may yet be if art salvagers have sufficient ingenuity...
...Danesacre to the wide sea; her worship of lovely ships is a more compelling idolatry than that which she offers her second husband, Hugh Hervey. She loves him deeply, but, since love and ship-building touch in her the same depths, ship-building more perfectly satisfies her sense of command. Just after her marriage...
Campbell has been spending several days at the Wakefield Rifle Range under command of Captain W. W. Walker of the U. S. Marine Corps...