inlisting

I find there is a great number of discharged soldiers in this State, who have been at home for some weeks, that are inclined to inlist again, but as many of them came home almost naked, and remain so still, a principal in - ducement to their inlisting is the expectation of being immediately clothed.

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

P.S. you need not fear my inlisting either under Mr W. the patriot or Sir G.O. the Courtier.

Letter 265 2009

If GWB was intent on having the world despise the USA he could have ended the war on terror much more effectively by launching a full scale war on Syria and Iran by inlisting Saddam to rule the newly established region.

earth has no sorrow 2006

Goverment now see to their sorrow their deplorable mistake in not inlisting their Army during the war.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 5 July 1780 1973

These were for raising Eighty Eight Battalions, with a Bounty for inlisting the Men during the War, granting Lands &c.

John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961

Company of Rangers, now in the Province of _Nova-Scotia_, commanded by _Joseph Gorham, Esq_; shall, on inlisting, receive good Pay and Cloathing, a large Bounty, with a Crown to drink the King's Health.

The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts Various

This is 'inlisting the affections in the cause of virtue' ten times more than ever Richardson did; for whose male and female pedants, all-excelling as they are, I never could care half so much as I found myself inclined to do for Jeanie before I finished the first volume ....

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) 1824

A bill was likewise passed, to prevent the subjects of England from inlisting into the service of any foreign state at war with another, which bill was intended to apply to the colonies of Spain.

Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 Henry Hunt 1804

He has one set of dispositions which tend to his animal preservation, and to the continuance of his race; another which lead to society, and by inlisting him on the side of one tribe or community, frequently engage him in war and contention with the rest of mankind.

An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition Adam Ferguson 1769

Christian Religion does more real service to that cause, than the inlisting legions under that denomination whose immoveable faith proceeds only from their ignorance; that is, who believing without any reason, can possibly have no reason for doubting.

A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil. In Six Letters to ���. 1704-1787 1761