Lexicographical Neighbors of Embusques
Literary usage of Embusques
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. En Repos and Elsewhere Over There: Verses Written in France, 1917-1918 by Lansing Warren, Robert A. Donaldson (1918)
"We 've had them among us just the same, And shall have when we 've finished the
strife - The embusques of civilian life. There '11 be plenty of indigent ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"... their mourning; to throw their sufferings, as a reproach, into the faces of
those who have not yet suffered from the same cause — of the embusques. ..."
3. The First World War, 1914-1918: Personal Experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à by Charles à Court Repington (1920)
"... but that there were two faults, namely, the list of certified occupations
which still permitted the embusques to escape service, and, secondly, ..."
4. High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall (1918)
"... were many of those despised of all the rest, the embusques, as they are called,
who hold the comfortable billets in safe places well back of the lines. ..."
5. Cavalry of the Clouds by Alan Bott (1917)
"No, it was untrue that England contained four million civilian embusques of
military age. No, the report that officers of the British Flying Corps received ..."
6. My War Diary by Mary Alsop King Waddington (1917)
"There are no young ones left in town, and the embusques who work at the Ministeres
or Etat-Major don't show themselves at the club. ..."
7. The World at War by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1917)
"a chase for les embusques — slackers — and while in England volunteers were asked
to enter the army for nine shillings a day, in Germany not only conscripts ..."
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