1 There was in the English infantry, particularly in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES 2 These recruits displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES 3 The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS 4 Our recruits from Bearn are not generally very rich, and I have no reason to think matters have much changed in this respect since I left the province.
5 The troop of cavalry had been organized three months before, the very day that Georgia seceded from the Union, and since then the recruits had been whistling for war.
6 Still, he could not put a whole faith in veteran's tales, for recruits were their prey.
7 Orders were given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia.
8 Militiamen and recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously interpreted.
9 But first they resolved to sell the goods the ship, and then go to Madagascar for recruits, several among them having died since my confinement.
10 I made his acquaintance in Tver when I was there on official business, and he came there for the levy of recruits.
11 As the piano had twice begun the prelude to the first figure Mary Jane led her recruits quickly from the room.
12 In the beginning, the Troop had been recruited exclusively from the sons of planters, a gentleman's outfit, each man supplying his own horse, arms, equipment, uniform and body servant.
13 The managers and superintendents and clerks of Packingtown were all recruited from another class, and never from the workers; they scorned the workers, the very meanest of them.
14 He must then go home and rest, sleep much and eat much, that he may be recruited of what he has so given to his love.
15 This time I watched whilst Van Helsing recruited himself and rested.