Word: commandeering
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Then came a squad of high College officials, mounted on ostriches, each bird being shod with gold, and wearing the shield of the University emblazoned on its breast. The skill of the riders did not seem to command the attention that it deserved, perhaps because they have so long ridden a high horse, that every one expected them to do it well...
...epitaph, written at the request of a grief-stricken family, was made, by command, short and realistic...
...University, and therefore have a perfect right to obtain their meals at Memorial. But have a certain number of them a right to impose upon their table companions their arguments, reaching nearly to quarrels sometimes, and their discussions, carried on in a high voice, so high as to command the attention of all those sitting at their table and even of many who sit at neighboring tables? Their language, and also their subjects for discussion, are often objectionable to many who sit near them...
...will be able to profit by his services. We believe that positive advantage will be derived from this new experiment; for whatever may be the result, it is evidence of a desire on the part of the College government to widen the scope of the University curriculum, which must command the approval, not only of Harvard students, but of all true friends of education throughout the country...
...divest myself of the military habits formed by four years of arduous service, I continued to follow the occupation for which I was best adapted by nature and most familiar by practice. But here I must pause, for with the remembrance of the Monday night drill, the words of command and battle struggle for utterance. Yes, gentlemen, let the historian chronicle my exploits in war if he will; let the poet sing them in paeans of martial melody: but do you, while memory keeps her tablet green, treasure me in your hearts as the FOUNDER OF THE HARVARD RIFLE CORPS...