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Britain conscripted women between the ages of 19 and 30, offering them a choice between the armed services and essential war work, and, although this was not rigorously enforced, expected most women under the age of 60 to contribute in some way to the war effort.

Naomi Craig RA: Minorities and Women ITY Brown University 1941

I use the word conscripted purposely -- I know there is no such word in the English language -- neither is there any such word as conscribe, the one usually in vogue now a days.

The Great Speech of Hon. A.H. Stephens, Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, on Wednesday Night, March 16th, 1864, to which is Added Extracts prom [sic] Gov. Brown's Message to the Georgia Legislature. 1864

"The script is, first and foremost, a character-driven story about a soldier named John who was kidnapped or" conscripted "by the UNSC when he was just six years old, and then brutally trained to become an elite Spartan warrior known as Master Chief 117."

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I am not sure which is funnier, "conscripted" or "other soldierly movements".

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I am not sure which is funnier, "conscripted" or "other soldierly movements".

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Early in January General Rosecrans issued his orders that all the men that could possibly be spared from detail duty should be immediately placed into the ranks, and that negroes should be "conscripted" or captured to take their places as teamsters, blacksmiths, cooks, etc.

Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett

A recruiting officer might have "conscripted" nearly a brigade of the swaggering blusterers.

The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner John Wilkinson

Though "conscripted," as it were, and rather a passive agent, I could see no wrong in the proceeding.

Marse Henry : an autobiography, 1919

No need to tell either the particular circumstances that "conscripted" him at last, because although his name is not real the man himself is, and one has no wish to bring shame on him or his people.

Action Front Boyd Cable 1910

And so we have here not the first -- for, as has been said, the Heroic romance itself had much earlier been "conscripted" into the service of didactics -- but the first brilliant, or almost brilliant, example of that novel of purpose which will meet us so often hereafter.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889