Meaning

(dated) A female sergeant..

Example Sentences

Mrs. Taradoodle,Sergeantess at Mace.

Ordered, That the Sergeanteſs at Arms, attending this House, do forthwith go with the Mace, to ſummon all the Members to attend the Service of this Houſe on Tueſday next.

They have regular recruiting sergeants and sergeantesses, whom they send out to lie in wait for the unwary, and after intoxicating them with the poison of superstition, induce them to enlist.

This sister, who, we were told, bore the title and rank of sergeantess (sargenta), possessed the remains of great beauty, and her (probably) forty summers had not injured her commanding and graceful figure.

Imagine Sam. going down Broadway some afternoon with a captainess in front of him, a lieutenantess on either side of him, and a sergeantess in the rear!

Miss Belle Rolston was the orderly sergeantess, as Richard Grant White might say, and acquitted herself of her important duties in a faultless manner, receiving the highest praise for her accurate knowledge of every detail and graceful demeanor.

The girls are uniformed, armed and soldierly equipped, wearing navy blue dresses with white trimmings and fatigue caps. The gun is the same that was used during the recent political campaign by marching political organizations. There are thirty-two in the company. Franc. Oliver, one of the teachers, is “first sergeantess.”

Miss Skittish was carrying on a fan flirtation with a distinguished male stranger in the gallery, and this being severely animadverted on by six or seven hon. members at the same moment, the deep-bayed voice of the Sergeantess-at-Arms was not at first heard.

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