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Enlistment   /ɛnlˈɪstmənt/   Listen
noun
Enlistment  n.  
1.
The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.
2.
The writing by which an enlisted man is bound.





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"Enlistment" Quotes from Famous Books



... preparing for the last and most elaborate feature of the day, Percival's enlistment was not discovered. It was not until the contestants ranged themselves in front of the judges' table that a buzz of fresh interest and amazement swept the deck. First came the Scot, lean, wiry, and deadly ...
— The Honorable Percival • Alice Hegan Rice
... lovers—in glowing June twilights, while the nightingales shouted from the laurels, or from the coppices in the park below—driven to the most desperate straits, to visions of cold poison, of horse-pistols, of immediate enlistment, or the consoling arms of Betty the housemaid, by the coquetries of some young lady captivating in powder and patches, or arrayed in the high-waisted, agreeably-revealing costume which our grandmothers judged it not improper to wear in their youth. He had seen husband and wife, too, wandering ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet
... Raged. Lincoln's Call for One Hundred Thousand Men. Enlistment. Captain Conwell. In Camp at Springfield, Mass. The ...
— Russell H. Conwell • Agnes Rush Burr
... from the parish was prodigious. In one week no less than three weavers and two cotton-spinners went over to Ayr, and took the bounty of the Royal Artillery. But I could not help remarking to myself, that the people were grown so used to changes and extraordinary adventures, that the single enlistment of Thomas Wilson, at the beginning of the American war, occasioned a far greater grief and work among us, than all the swarms that went off week after week in the months of November ...
— The Annals of the Parish • John Galt
... that Mr. Ray had returned, saw, moreover, that his sister was leaning on his arm, her eyes fixed on the speaker's weather-beaten face. Again it all flashed upon him—the story of Foster's infatuation for this lovely girl, his enlistment, and then his ...
— Ray's Daughter - A Story of Manila • Charles King


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