Prying sergeants and commissioned officers, mostly of hated German extraction, thundered at the door of Colonel Carvel's house, and other houses, there-for Glencoe was a border town.
"The Crisis, Volume 6"
Winston Churchill
Two of these were sergeants M'Donald and Davis, who were afterwards noted, the first for his daring spirit and address in single combat; the second, for his patient services, after being crippled by a wound.
"A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion"
William Dobein James
On landing we found an unusual number of people on the Hard for that early hour, while parties of soldiers, headed by sergeants, were passing at the double-quick march.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston