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Definition of Midshipmen
1. midshipman [n] - See also: midshipman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Midshipmen
Literary usage of Midshipmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern Literary Messenger (1850)
"The annual average demand then, for passed midshipmen to nil the grades of the
lino is 14.5; consequently, there are about eighteen times as many passed ..."
2. The Story of the Exposition: Being the Official History of the International by Frank Morton Todd (1921)
"These were not only the first battleships over the isthmus of Panama, but it was
the first practice cruise of midshipmen into the Pacific Ocean. ..."
3. The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford by Charles Beresford (1914)
"CHAPTER XLVIII HER MAJESTY'S midshipmen HAVING adopted the practice of asking
the officers in the Fleet under my command to write essays upon subjects ..."
4. Service with the French Troops in Africa by Philip Kearny, Mayne Reid (1913)
"It must be here acknowledged that Captain Jones treated his midshipmen with a
good deal of respect in some particulars, and in others with a degree of ..."
5. The National Almanac and Annual Record (1863)
"Matthews, Assistant to Commandant of midshipmen, Instructor of Naval Gunnery and
Field ... Charlee L. Harris, Clerk to the Commandant of midshipmen. ..."
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