Never will he have a finer opportunity to gain the marshal's baton.

It will be a jolly sight more useful than a marshal's baton!

It is the marshal's baton in our profession, as the old actor said.

That field- marshal's baton may have been in your pack after all!

Glory and the field- marshal's baton, after fifty-one years of hard work!

Who gave me the ducal title, and the marshal's baton?

Gassion, who had just earned his marshal's baton, was the sole exception to the rule.

He who has a major's epaulettes at thirty may carry a marshal's baton at fifty.

No one, least of all myself, guessed that you carried a field- marshal's baton in your knapsack.

May my cane grow into a marshal's baton.

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field- marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

There was a time when the mighty Napoleon said that every soldier carried a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

Grandmother is the field- marshal's baton.

Neither will there be any objections to the survivors bringing back a marshal's baton, if they can get one.

Vandamme, however, was ambitious of earning the marshal's baton by something more than mere obedience to an order received.

After the battle of Polotsk, Wittgenstein was compelled to withdraw, and Gouvion St. Cyr received at last his marshal's baton.