Recruits
[rɪ'krʊt]
Examples
- Whatever they could prove (which is usually anything you like), they proved there, in an army constantly strengthening by the arrival of new recruits. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I will see that the buttons of the recruits are properly bright and that the sergeants make no mistakes in their accounts. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- 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. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The recruits were principally men from regiments stationed there and already in the service, bound for three years if the war lasted that long. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They were a caste and a class apart, attracting intelligent recruits from the general population. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Recruits come from time to time, but I admit none but those who are physically perfect and passably moral. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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