Meanings of brilliant officer in English

She was walking with an officer, a handsome, commanding, haughty, brilliant officer.

Would a brave and brilliant officer like him be bought for drinks, he asked.

He was a brilliant officer, bold, vigorous, original.

The students were invisible, implacable, and many a brilliant officer of the imperial guard disappeared, never to return.

I know you for a dashing and brilliant officer, far and away superior to those nominally above you.

With Gallipoli suddenness I had leapt into this exalted rank, while Doe, a more brilliant officer, remained only a Second Lieutenant.

Aide-de-camp of the Duke of Bordeaux, and lieutenant-colonel; he was a brilliant officer who had received glorious wounds in the Russian campaign.

I was dining the other day with a young and brilliant officer, who has seen two months' active service in the A.S.C.

But the authorities of Sparta were jealous of their brilliant officer, and their chief anxiety was to recover the prisoners taken at Sphacteria.

He had just acquired an inexplicable but genuine enthusiasm for stockbroking when the War gave him the opportunity of developing into a remarkably brilliant officer.

A moment later, a horse was champing his bit under the porch, and the brilliant officer, enveloped in his night cloak, passed rapidly before Quasimodo.

He had proved himself a brilliant officer on many occasions, and Turenne did not feel in any way aggrieved at his being placed over him.