The Barbarian condescended, by producing an accurate list, to expose the bold falsehood of Vigilius, who had affirmed that no more than seventeen deserterscould be found.
But the deserters had foreseen that contingency, and had cut the falls just inside the lowering cleat, so that the whaler could not be lowered.
I used to meet thedeserters on shore, and they used to chaff me.
Then, by stripping all the forts below, he could bring together forty-five hundred men; while several French deserters assured him that Montcalm had nearly twelve thousand.
Deserters said that Lévis would assault the town; and the soldiers replied: "Let him come on; he will catch a Tartar.
Two deserters came from the camp of Bougainville with intelligence that, at ebb tide on the next night, he was to send down a convoy of provisions to Montcalm.
From the time when the English took possession of Quebec, reports had come in through deserters that Lévis meant to attack and recover it.
It was but a confirmation of what had already been learned from deserters and prisoners, who declared that the main fort was but a loopholed wall held by six or seven hundred men, ill fed, discontented, and mutinous.
The priest Piquet was of the party; and five deserters declared that he solemnly blessed them, and told them to give the English no quarter.
In May three pretended French deserters were detected among them inciting them to take arms against the English.
French deserterstold Washington that the party came as spies, and were to show the summons only if threatened by a superior force.
Wolfe saw at once that, if his own boats went down in advance of the convoy, he could turn the intelligence of the deserters to good account.
Deserters say that he will try us again in a few days.
Desherbiers is then told that His Majesty desires him to aid English deserters in escaping from Halifax.
Very soon deserters began to come within our lines who reported that the lines in our front were being evacuated.
Within a month from their escape from the Melampus, the first three of these deserters offered themselves for enlistment, and were received on board the Chesapeake, then at Norfolk, Va.
Deserters to us on the morning of the 25th reported that a large force was at Charleston, Tenn.
The desertersalso said that fully one third of the garrison were in hospital, and that officers, as well as men, had begun to despair of relief from Johnston.
The prisoners and the deserters who daily came in told us that this was the common report in their army.
These, combined with the quoted experiences in attempting to identify deserters in the United States, allow a high value to this method, though not so high as has been claimed for it, and show the importance of supplementary means.
Recruits without tattoos are not compared withdeserters with tattoos; but recruits with tattoos are compared with both classes.
But the value to honest men is always great of being able to identify offenders, whether they be merely deserters or formerly convicted criminals, and the method of finger prints is shown to be applicable to that purpose.
Detection of repeaters possible if all body marks of all recruits recorded, all deserters noted, and all recruits compared with previous deserters.
On entering the city the troops were fired upon by the released convicts, and possibly by deserters and hostile citizens.
I recollect at this place that some of the gunners who had stood their ground, were deserters from General Taylor's army on the Rio Grande.
The country back of Vicksburg was filled with deserters from Pemberton's army and, it was reported, many from Johnston's also.
The Dutch took immediate possession of the Defence, and brought all our rascally deserters into their castle, where they examined them as to our proceedings at Puloroon and Nylacka, in regard to our fortifications and means of defence.
The master of our ship, Mr James Foster, returned from Nangasaki on the 7th, bringing our skiff with him, but all the deserters had got sanctuary in that town, so that he had not been able to see or speak with any of them.
By this mistake our deserters had the more time to get away.
On the evening of the twenty-sixth, however, deserters brought news that the garrison was in retreat, and shortly afterwards a loud explosion told its own tale.
It was for this reason that he had to learn from the deserters the form of the ground which lay on the other side.
The enemy was informed of this circumstance by some deserters from the troop of L.
And the law of nations authorises us to attack an enemy in every place: An opinion supported by most legal authorities: thus Marcian says "that deserters may be killed in the same manner as enemies, wherever they are found.
Neither are deserters to be given up, unless it be so agreed.
Shoot them as flagrant deserters taken in arms against the Emperor," answered the Baron, clenching his hand, and frowning darkly.
Remember to tell no one about the happy lives the deserters lead among the Circassians.
It is said that pretended deserters deliberately trapped Belgians into aiding them, and then betrayed their hosts.
Deserters and traitors were tracked down like dogs.
On the other hand we harassed them continuously, with the result that deserters began to come in freely, sometimes singly, and often in twos and threes.
It is strange, but true, that until we came into the valley, prisoners and deserters were very scarce.
But the poor deserters were thinly clad, and they had not the boiling heart of Catalina.
Yet they made themselves sycophantic servants of the King of Spain; and they dogged his deserters up to the summit of the Cordilleras, more surely than any Spanish bloodhound, or any Spanish tirailleur's bullet.
But I heard say that the sirkar has offered pardons to all deserters who return.
There was a surge toward the tents, but King called to his deserters and they clustered back to him.
A number of the deserters at Stornoway had left their effects on board, and these were disposed of by sale among the passengers.
Deserters brought in reports of the vast preparations, and the confidence they inspired.
One day a couple of deserters were brought to the Governor, one of whom proved to be uncommonly intelligent, and gave important information.
Many of the men met with in the mountains were of the class known as "lyers out," deserters from the Confederate army, and fugitive conscripts.
Deserters exhausted their ingenuity in finding ways to reach the cavalry videttes; and some gladly swam across the Rappahannock in the coldest nights of the year.
Large numbers ofdeserters had recently left the {443} Confederate army and walked across to Grant's lines, bringing their arms with them, and this circumstance was now used for a ruse.
I spent a week examining Grant's lines, learning from deserters and men captured the names of the Federal officers and their commands in the front.
There was about an equal number of deserters and stragglers from Johnston's army; but the nature of the ground was not such as to concentrate them where the eye could take them all in at one grand review.
Deserters and contrabands are frequently discovered fording the Rapidan, whose chilly waters have less terrors for the escaping parties than the tribulations left behind.
Deserters are in constant evidence, all coming in ragged and hungry.
Almost every day brings one or more deserters from the rebel ranks, men who are convinced that the game is really lost and can see no pleasure or profit in the "last ditch" idea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deserters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
