"Length of service" Quotes from Famous Books
... took about ten thousand dollars to educate me where I could write your darned stuff for you. Anyway, as far as length of service goes, you've got stenographers here you've paid fifteen a week for ... — This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... been unpleasantly struck by the frequent Courts-Martial on the younger soldiers, and by the disproportionate number of these lads to be met with in the military prisons. Even when the prisoners happened to be of some length of service, I usually found that they had undergone previous imprisonments, and had been severely punished within a short time of their enlistment. I urged that, in the first two or three years of a soldier's ... — Forty-one years in India - From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief • Frederick Sleigh Roberts |