Mustering
[mʌstərɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Muster
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Examples
- Yes, but scandal with it--a hideous mustering of tongues. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- One thing is certain,--that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a _dies ir?_ coming on, sooner or later. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Forward they went--tramp, tramp--with mustering, manifold, slow-filing tread. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He had been a brigadier, in command at Cairo, while I was mustering officer at Springfield without any rank. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On mustering our company, we found them to consist of fourteen hundred souls, men, women, and children. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Brigadier-General John Pope was stationed at Springfield, as United States mustering officer, all the time I was in the State service. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I had charge of mustering these regiments into the State service. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On mustering our numbers for the night, three were found missing. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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