Sample sentences for AIDE-DE-CAMP

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one who acts as an assistant to another — especially a military officer to a more senior officer

For a time he was Napoleon's aide-de-camp.

Omar had not merely approved Max's request to speak with his charge about serving as aide-de-camp; he had given his enthusiastic blessing.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
His aide-de-camp used to come out and ask people what they wanted to see him for and let some of them in.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
As a reward, you shall have the honor of accompanying me as an aide-de-camp before fulfilling your obligation to the witches.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
I asked my aide-de-camp to bring him here.
Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman
The executioner, we later learned, was the Emperor's aide-de-camp, a man General Mebratu had known for years.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
Having introduced his parlor game and seeing that it was a hit, the director departed with his aide-de-camp in tow.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
-JOURNAL OF SAMUEL B. WEBB, WASHINGTON'S AIDE-DE-CAMP
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Chains
Among his duties is chief military aide-de-camp.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
He exchanges a few words with a thin aide-de-camp, who translates to the mayor.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
Ask Martingale; he was in Spain, aide-de-camp to General Blazes.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his side.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
He had served gallantly with the British army in Spain, and as aide-de-camp to the King of Poland.
David G. McCullough -- 1776
As a "fighting Quaker," he had since become Washington's aide-de-camp.
David McCullough -- John Adams
Fearfully rich, handsome, great connections, an aide-de-camp, and with all that a very nice, good-natured fellow.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
I always tell him: Here he is Uncle's aide-de-camp, a most brilliant position.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
Fortune willed, however, that the hurried approach of Mrs. Fisher, as whose aide-de-camp Van Alstyne was acting, should break up the group before Selden reached the threshold of the room.
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
AIDE-DE-CAMP Very good, sir.
Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman
AIDE-DE-CAMP What do we do about the invasion?
Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman
AIDE-DE-CAMP Sir, there's a group of women chanting up the hill.
Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman

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