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Definition of Recruiting-sergeant
1. Noun. A sergeant deputized to enlist recruits.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recruiting-sergeant
Literary usage of Recruiting-sergeant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"[The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual
who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth, ..."
2. The British Drama: A Collection of the Most Esteemed Tragedies, Comedies (1854)
"... THE RECRUITING SERGEANT: A MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT, IN ONE ACT. BY ISAAC BICKERSTAFF.
REMARKS. TBS musical merit« of th» ..."
3. The British Drama: A Collection of the Most Esteemed Tragedies, Comedies (1859)
"... THE RECRUITING SERGEANT: A MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT, IN ONE ACT. BY ISAAC BICKERSTAFF.
REMARKS. Тн« musical merit» of Ihn ..."
4. History of the Sinn Fein Movement and the Irish Rebellion of 1916 by Francis P. Jones (1917)
"CHAPTER XVII THE RECRUITING SERGEANT IT is not uncharitable to suppose that the
outbreak of the European War was looked on by at least some of the ..."
5. War Lyrics: And Songs of the South by Kentucky (1866)
"THE RECRUITING SERGEANT. ... a Southern Recruiting Sergeant, oho ! The way that
the ranks can be filled up I know. I wonder what maiden has got spunk enough ..."
6. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries: To-day and in Days of Old by Charles George Harper (1895)
"The recruiting sergeant was a scarcely less familiar figure on the road than the
stage-coach a hundred years ago, and a figure, too, that has ever been ..."
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