That happened in Portsmouth, and then it was inevitable that, hungry and weak, he should be picked up by a marine recruiting-sergeant marching through the streets with a band. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower In The West Indies]
Here were these poor recruits, a few weeks since dragged from their native hearths, constrained by regal power to illustrate themselves by the sword -- when their hearts and characters were formed for domestic cares, and those agricultural labours which sweetened their rustic meal, and only trying to evade their direst enemy -- the recruiting-sergeant of Napoleon!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 570, October 13, 1832] Reference
Waverley to a recruiting-sergeant of his own regiment. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference
The two young men then went out to look for the recruiting-sergeant. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading] Reference
"Well rowed, five," is echoed from the bank; it is that cunning man, the recruiting-sergeant. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference
The Thespian army had no need of a recruiting-sergeant or a press-gang to reinforce its ranks. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference
An arrogant foreman bore down upon him, estimating his muscles with the eye of a recruiting-sergeant. From Wordnik.com. [Roads of Destiny] Reference
A recruiting-sergeant in Trafalgar Square tapped me on the arm, and said: 'Young man, your country wants you.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Road] Reference
The recruiting-sergeant went out into the highways and hedges to collect the fuel for Lord Kitchener's final operation. From Wordnik.com. [On the Heels of De Wet] Reference
Judkins (a sight to make a recruiting-sergeant shudder) forever taunt one with having enlisted as a private soldier?. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Ibbetson] Reference
Government; and Government launched a big ship with hurrahs, and ordered the recruiting-sergeant to be seen conspicuously. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
Through all these bargains and blessings, the recruiting-sergeant watchfully elbowed his way, a thread of War in the peaceful skein. From Wordnik.com. [Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices] Reference
The birds 'instinctive economy would not be benefited by a tax-gatherer, a recruiting-sergeant, a sect or two of theologians, and the other usual organs of human polity. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
In every town where they stopped she wished to examine the corps de garde, if there was one, and once very narrowly missed introducing Waverley to a recruiting-sergeant of his own regiment. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
In every town where they stopped, she wished to examine the CORPS DE GARDE, if there was one, and once very narrowly missed introducing Waverley to a recruiting-sergeant of his own regiment. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference
No one could have been fitter for the duties of a recruiting-sergeant than Jacques Chapeau; and to his great natural talents in that line, he added a patriotic zeal, which he copied from his master. From Wordnik.com. [La Vendée] Reference
The young Scot was beguiled by the fascinating tongue of a recruiting-sergeant into his Britannic majesty's service, and was taken prisoner by General La Hoche during the latter's invasion of Ireland. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Italian and French Composers]
On that we handed back our shillings to the sergeant of the 44th regiment; the recruiting-sergeant of the 90th Light Infantry putting fresh shillings in our hands, and thus enlisting us in his regiment. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading] Reference
Tall, broad-shouldered, deep-chested, and athletic, with an active step, erect gait, and clear laughing eye, he was one whom a recruiting-sergeant in the Guards would have looked upon with a covetous sigh. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference
Dependence was placed upon the ordinary wiles of the recruiting-sergeant, and upon Nelson's own popularity in the adjacent counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, from which the bulk of his ship's company was actually drawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain] Reference
But come, recruiting-sergeant, what of our volunteers? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel] Reference
You must needs have patience, good recruiting-sergeant, till I can have it dyed the royal red. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel] Reference
A village into the drill of a capital, and see it a year after; it may tower a head higher than its recruiting-sergeant. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
London, "I agreed with a Columbia professor who said preponderant power in men and money was bound to win the war; but now I have a stronger argument -- one which fell from the lips of a recruiting-sergeant in the. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
The very moment, sir, a recruiting-sergeant puts a shilling into your hand, sir, you are a soldier. ". From Wordnik.com. [Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations Related in his Revival Work by the Great Evangilist] Reference
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