| 1. | "Well, he's really a good fellow, one can serve under him," said Timokhin to the subaltern beside him. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 2. | She was an extraordinarily beautiful girl, Margaret Devereux, and made all the men frantic by running away with a penniless young fellow--a mere nobody, sir, a subaltern in a foot regiment, or something of that kind. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 3. | A group of soldiers, a quartermaster, and several subalterns came up to the balcony with Vronsky. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |