"Commandeer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... your orders. Commandeer the necessary canoes and notify Ludwig to have the men in readiness for the full moon. Work out the details and ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle
... again, and wondered what they were all doing there, and whether the Boers had interfered with my father because he was an Englishman. This brought up the thought that if the war went against the Boers they might go so far as to commandeer both my father and ...
— Charge! - A Story of Briton and Boer • George Manville Fenn
... had stopped, to go to the occupants and say, "I know the Lord has sent you for the purpose of giving me a lift." It was quite a natural consequence of this for me to be taken in. One day at Estaires I tried to commandeer a fine car standing in the square, but desisted when I was informed by the driver that it was the private property of the (p. 047) Prince of Wales. I am sure that if the Prince had been there to hear the text, he would have driven me anywhere ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott |
