As we marched along in close array, we gathered many recruits by the way, notwithstanding that we were in the territory which had submitted to the English rule.
Many thousands of fresh recruits were won over, but once again their designs for the acquisition of land--as well as of souls--stirred up a crusade against them.
At last after six months two thousand five hundredrecruits had been assembled by dint of advertising and coaxing and pressure.
Over there, over there, the Yanks are coming," sang the soldiers in training camp as they changed from recruits into fighting units of the 85th Division at Battle Creek.
Although I feel myself strong enough for offensive operations, I am holding on quietly to get advantage of recruits and convalescents, who are coming forward very rapidly.
There were recruiting stations all over town, with notices, rudely lettered on boards over the doors, announcing the arm of service and length of time for which recruits at that station would be received.
The recruits were principally men from regiments stationed there and already in the service, bound for three years if the war lasted that long.
It was my belief that while the enemy could get no more recruits they were losing at least a regiment a day, taking it throughout the entire army, by desertions alone.
About 9 o'clock we threw forward our pickets and, in the darkness, many of their raw recruits came into our lines, their guns and accoutrements perfectly new; some of them had not fired a shot and could scarcely tell their nativity.
Pirates who fell in with ships usually sought to gain recruits among the captured crews.
Not that these very questionable recruits were willingly accepted.
The mob was easily roused, as when it broke open the house of the Provost Marshal Tooley in Holborn, "to whom they owed a grudge for impressing men to sell as recruits to Flanders.
Officer Dunn had informed them they might be forwarded to the nearest navy yard that night with a batch of recruits signed up during the week.
A special car awaited therecruits at the railway terminal.
For several weeks the Brighton recruits were kept busily at the business of mastering submarine navigation.
After an exchange of salutes between the deck officer of the Exeter and the visiting officer, and a brief chat, the recruits were ordered to fall in.
Bill Witt had sized up, the situation one evening when he and the Brighton recruits had been discussing the likelihood of their getting out on the firing line at an early date.
Passing the armed sentries at the gate, the party of recruits were marched first to the commandant's office, where their arrival was officially reported.
An insurrection was inaugurated and recruits came in rapidly.
General Kleber was now placed in command of the Army of Egypt by Napoleon who informed his successor of the reasons of his departure for France, and his intention of sending recruits and munitions at the earliest possible moment.
The French army, to which recruits were now flocking from every hospital and depot within reach, was ordered to prepare for instant motion.
Wurmser's orders, too, were to strengthen himself, on his march, by whatever recruits he could raise among the warlike and loyal population of the Tyrol.
The older soldiers in some cases called these recruits in a jesting way "conscripts.
A number of therecruits obtained, came to us while we were at Cumberland.
The peasants on the rivers Lena and Yenisei are exempted from furnishing recruits on certain conditions, such as providing horses for travellers, and conveying the post, for which services they are of course paid besides.
These were recruits who were being registered, passing one by one into the bureau, and coming out again by the same crowded doorway.
His mission was to convey recruits thence to St. Petersburg.
In each zone recruits are levied every alternate five years.
The abortive treaty proved, however, to the King's advantage, for its failure turned the tide in his favour, and brought recruits to his banner.
Recruits now flocked to his standard, and his march became a triumphal progress; so great was the enthusiasm of the loyal town of Wigan, that rushes, flowers and boughs were strewn in the streets before him.
In the summer Rupert hoped to really fight the Parliament fleet, and with that view he personally sought recruits in all the neighbouring port towns.
All the recruits he could gain were "new-levied Welsh and unexperienced men," and even of these there were but few.
Recruits are formed of the lower orders of white persons, and of the people of colour.
Recruits are made of some of the worst individuals in the province; this mode of recruiting, and their most wretched pay, account completely for the depreciated character of the soldiers of the line[26].
Julian, Count and Illustris, Tata is ordered to conduct recruits to, v.
The vessel was on her way to Chili and was filled with recruits for the war then raging with the Indians, and Catalina of course at once declared her wish to throw in her lot with them.
Very smart the recruits looked, and none was smarter than Blind Jack, who stood six feet two inches in his stockings.
When a large number of recruits is needed, the Pinkertons usually advertise in the newspapers asking for able-bodied men of courage, but without stating for whose service.
In New York, prospective recruits are brought to a building on lower Broadway where the Pinkertons have an armory, stocked with Winchester rifles, revolvers, policemen's clubs and uniforms.
Similar trips were made every day thereafter, the safe arrival of the first batches of recruits having emboldened others.
The Federal troops in Alexandria, who were for the most part young recruits who had just arrived from the North and West, looked with astonishment upon these thin and ragged men, several of whom were barefooted.
The new recruits that had been sent to fill up the gaps were far inferior troops to those with which he had commenced the campaign.
Meals for the first contingent of pioneer recruits ranged from rank to worse, until the boys parted company with their French civilian cooks and set up their own culinary department with Sergeant Joseph A.
After, what seemed like hours to the recruits lined-up, roll of the seven hundred was called, divisions made, and the first quota of Battery D was marched to 019.
Of course, the new recruits were given a dinner shortly after their arrival--but not without first taking a bath.
On October 4th and 5th morerecruits arrived and then on November 2nd another large contingent arrived and was assigned to Battery D.
Many of the battery detail were recruits who did not have the lessons in equitation at Camp Meade that the older members of the battery experienced.
Before the call, "Come and Get It" was sounded the more ambitious of the recruits folded their blankets and tidied up their cots.
The time on the drill field was spent in learning the rudiments in much the same manner as the training was started and progressed with the first recruitsat Camp Meade.
These men, recruits for the most part, made in their ignorance of war a joyful noise, but the Reservists and old hands looked grave and sad, and hardly joined in the singing or cheering.
Brave and highly disciplined seamen in whose vocabulary defeat had had no place, with recruits like Perry's taken from the army, and an auxiliary force of Indian sharp-shooters.
England is profuse in condemnation of our Government for permitting such an institution as polygamy, which she fosters however by sending one-half the recruits that come yearly to our shores to practise it.
On communicating to the captain my orders, I advised him to immediately cause the bells of the town to be rung, and to get all the recruits he could.
Much could be related, incidentally, with regard to the recruiting march just mentioned; it was the march of the men of a district through that district, and aimed at getting more recruits for the men's own unit.
Meantime, from the day on which the first recruits had arrived, training was carried on with the utmost vigour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recruits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
