54 Verbs to Use for the Word recruit

In the Philippines they gained new recruits among vagabonds, deserters, runaway criminals, and ruined spendthrifts; and from the same sources were made up the bands of highway robbers (tulisanes), which sometimes started up, and perpetuated acts of extraordinary daring.

They were carried into and established themselves in the new barracks of Camp Cameron in Cambridge, Massachusetts; but they are never found in the Boston House of Correction, which receives its recruits from the filthiest dens of iniquity, because the energetic master enforces thorough cleansing on every new-comer, and continues it so long as he remains.

The fame of his exploits had been the talk of those parts for above a twelvemonth, when, in the latter part of the year 1665, Captain Morgan, having made a very successful expedition against the Spaniards into the Gulf of Campeachywhere he took several important purchases from the plate fleetcame to the Barbadoes, there to fit out another such venture, and to enlist recruits.

The numbers gradually increased, though from time to time they were seriously affected by the spreading of malicious reports and the opposition of bigoted relatives and the only way to keep up the attendance was to go round visiting to obtain recruits, and to cultivate an acquaintance with the parents of the old scholars.

Butif it were to be done this wayof course the best thing possible was to work as widely as you could in getting your recruits; and,if England were too conservative to say, "We are twenty-eight millions, one-fifth fighting men,"too conservative to put rifles or muskets into the hands of those five or six million fighters,the next best thing was to rank as many as you could in your handful of upper-class riflemen.

It is from this "class," if we can call it so, that both the bureaucracy and the revolutionary movement draw their recruits.

"O Fragrant Ones," he shrilled, "I bring ten thousand recruits, to join our army and swear brotherhood.

The company that summer sent further recruits including two women and several Poles and Germans to make soap-ashes, glass and pitch"skilled workmen from foraine parts which may teach and set ours in the way where we may set thousands a work in these such like services."

Cary went about beating up recruits; while John Brimblecombe preached a fierce crusade against the Spaniards, and Frank grew more and more proud of his brother.

Under this central body are Women's Agricultural Committees in each county, with an organizing secretary whose duty it is to secure full-time recruits.

Coenus' brigade was on the right, and nearest to the shield-bearers; next to this stood the brigade of Perdiccas, then Meleager's, then Polysperchon's; and then the brigade of Amynias, but which was now commanded by Simmias, as Amynias had been sent to Macedonia to levy recruits.

It is difficult to find recruits even in times of distress.

What else could adjust in so exact a manner the Recruits of every Nation to its Losses, and divide these new Supplies of People into such equal Bodies of both Sexes?

Nor did she abandon the practice even when it was suggested to her that such an intercourse with those who were notoriously always on the watch to attract recruits of rank or consideration, might have the result of inclining the child to follow her great-aunt's example; and perhaps, by renouncing the world, to counteract plans which her parents might have preferred for her establishment in life.

One of them carried two hundred and twenty recruits, the other was manned with somewhat less than two hundred veterans.

In 1817, he landed near Barcelona, where he collected seven hundred recruits, and marched towards Caracas; but, being worsted in an affair at Clarines, he fell back again upon Barcelona, where he shut himself up with four hundred men, and made a successful resistance against a superior force.

Will you engage in my service for a few hours, with this for your bounty, and as much more for wages, provided you deal honestly?" The old man stretched out a hand, and took the guinea which Wilder had showed over his shoulder, without appearing to deem it at all necessary to face his recruit.

But the inhabitants of that city were either unable or unwilling to furnish recruits in proportion to their numbers.

The vessel touched at Monrovia, gathered as many recruits as possible from those sent out on the two previous expeditions, and finally anchored at Cape Palmas on February 11, 1834.

There he will inspect the newly arrived recruits, who will be attached to his regiment.

And there was much to be doneshe found a profitable task in instructing new recruits in the rules of picketingand also in investigating cases of need.

Remain here in the 'unassigned' camp, where you may be transferred into any regiment in the service that needs recruits; or go, as Colonel Grandison has very kindly consented to have you, as orderlies or clerks.

Having lost half a million men amid the snows of Russia, Napoleon had called for 200,000 more soldiers, and the little Breton fishing village of Kromlaix had to provide twenty-five recruits.

But to turn these recruits at the shortest possible notice, under the hammer-blows of a war, in which our enemies had every initial advantage, into armies equipped and trained according to modern standards, might well have seemed to those who undertook it an impossible task.

If he wanted recruits he was to take them from the legions which Publius Cornelius, the propraetor, commanded in Sicily, provided he did not choose any soldier who was of the number of those whom the senate had refused to allow to be discharged, or to return home till the war was put an end to.

54 Verbs to Use for the Word  recruit