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Caporal   Listen
noun
Caporal  n.  One who directs work; an overseer. (Sp. Amer.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Caporal" Quotes from Famous Books



... the sooner you are initiated into the mysteries of the craft the better, and no one will go through the ceremony more explicitly, briefly and satisfactorily, than myself—le Caporal Blon. First of all, mon brave, and most indispensable, as your good sense will teach you, it is necessary that every new comer is bound to pay his footing among the 'government boarders;' and as you, Monsieur le capitaine, seem to be the honored chef ...
— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer

... behind my chair: "Mon petit caporal"—he called me that because of a fancied likeness to the young Napoleon—"dites donc. Vous croyex quils vont passer par Amiens? Non, ce n'est pas possible, ca! Pour la deuxieme fois? Non. Je refuse a le croire. Mais c'est mauvais, c'est affreux, ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs

... said he, half to himself; "or strong enough, perhaps?—or clever enough?—and yet Alexander was a little man, and the Petit Caporal, and Nelson, and Caesar, too; and so was Saul of Tarsus, and weakly he was into the bargain. AEsop was a dwarf, and so was Attila; Shakspeare was lame; Alfred, a rickety weakling; Byron, clubfooted;—so much for body versus spirit—brute ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al



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