Conscripts
[kɔn,skrɪpts]
Examples
- They will fight nature no longer as dull conscripts of the pick and plough, but for a splendid conquest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His conscripts were generally old men and boys. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He now had principally conscripts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The father in 1811, at the age of twenty, was one of Napoleon's conscripts, and in 1814 received from the Emperor, for valor and fidelity, the Cross of t he Legion of Honor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- On the 23d of October I learned of Pemberton's being in command at Holly Springs and much reinforced by conscripts and troops from Alabama and Texas. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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