He may not be the deserter they search--I do not know--but if he is not the deserter he is something else.
For that very night a British sailor came on board the Constitution, who said he was a deserter from the Havana.
Lieutenant Morris sent word to the Havana that a deserter from his ship was on the Constitution.
One night a British officer came on board and said there was an American deserter on his ship, the Havana, and that the Americans could have him if they sent for him.
A deserter reported the enemy in this direction to consist of 6,000 men.
Yes, I knew that he had asked for his dismissal, because to serve after his son had become a deserter did not accord with his ideas of honor.
But the deserter had not risen to the sun--the earth had held him fast; the rich, green meadow had drawn him down deeper and deeper.
Lag's ridin' through the countryside, and what dae ye think he'll say if he finds that a deserter is serving-man at Daldowie?
Are ye after the deserter tae, like the twa dragoons that were here a bittock syne?
Haud up it till ye come to a bend, and that's the place whaur the deserter will maist likely try to cross it.
The next four days were spent by the fleet in sounding, to discover whether the statements of the French deserter were correct.
Benares lay at least ten hours by rail from the cantonments, and nothing in the world could have saved Mulvaney from arrest as a deserter had he appeared there in the apparel of his orgies.
Further, no one would think of seeking a deserter in a first-class carriage.
The Colonel had, twenty years ago, assisted at a Frontier expedition; one of the Majors had seen service at the Cape; a confirmed deserter in E Company had helped to clear streets in Ireland; but that was all.
He was in the Wessex, before the hospital people made a deserter of him.
It's entirely owing to them that he's a deserter now.
Peter hung him in effigy; but the Swedes themselves improved upon this by hanging the deserter in the flesh.
It was lucky for the deserter that we found him before they did, for his shrift would have been short.
We picked up a Turk deserter who was trying to reach our lines.
The doctor thought it best to diplomatically accept the statement that the deserter was sick, but none the less he deemed it wise to decrease the load hauled by the Eskimo, doing so at the expense of the half-breeds.
Mertuk married Hans Hendrik, an Eskimo of Moravian faith from Danish West Greenland, who was practically a deserter from Kane.
Not this merely," exclaimed Grantham, "but a traitor to his country, and a deserter from our service.
This commanded Boston Neck, and the south part of the town, and a deserter brought a false report to the British that a general assault was intended.
He was an Irishman, and had been a deserter from the British army.
He was on the point of returning to Fort Duquesne, when a deserter arrived, who gave word that Washington had come to a halt in the Great Meadows, where his troops were in a starving condition.
A deserter from the corps brought word to the British commander that the legion was cantoned about twelve miles up the river; the infantry in three houses by themselves; Count Pulaski with the cavalry at some distance apart.
I wish it was nothing but the last, Captain Lyon; but we have the disagreeable duty of trying a spy and a deserter before us.
And when the enemy spied him, they thought at first that some deserter was coming over to them, but when he came near and put his hand to his bow, twenty men, not knowing who he might be, went out against him.
A deserterwas an outlaw and found it impossible to remain neutral.
At this time, Governor Shorter said that affairs in lower Henry County were in bad condition; that the deserter element was strong and threatened the security of loyal people; and that the soldiers were afraid to leave their families.
The tory and deserter element, with a few from the obstructionists of the war time and malcontents of the present who wanted office, made up the native portion of the party.
Outrages by Tories and Deserters The tory and the deserter often led squads of Federal soldiers on expeditions of destruction and pillage.
Castleberry was convicted by a military commission, fined $200, and imprisoned for one year for purchasing stolen property and for assisting a deserter to escape.
If a deserter were arrested, some member released him; the members claimed that the society caused the loss of the battle of Missionary Ridge and the surrender at Vicksburg.
Chapter 31 The Deserter About the end of January, Slyme left Easton's.
But perhaps one deserter is enough for a family--and you beat me to it.
What in the world did she mean by saying she'd like to be a deserter herself?
He sat down on the edge of the table, and at the deserter pointed his forefinger.
Semmes or his Lieutenant, gave an order that my hair should be cut off as a punishment: and accordingly four of them seized me and held me down, while a fellow named Jim Brown, a deserter from the 31st Illinois, hacked off my hair.
A few miles above Camp Colorado, we found a deserter from the regular service, wandering about in irons.
A deserter from the Russian cavalry on the 30th said the Russians were without tents or cover; their fare was scanty and miserable, and their sufferings great.
A deserter came in, and was taken before Lord Raglan.
A Polish deserter came in on the 27th with a strange story.
From a deserter at Head-Quarters I gleaned some particulars respecting the formation of the Russian army.
