"Military service" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... except in January and February, when the winds from the snows are very trying, it is pleasant. In the plains the chief tribes are Rajputs and Awans. Gakkhars are of some importance in Kahuta. In the Murree the leading tribes are the Dhunds and the Sattis, the latter a fine race, keen on military service. ...
— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie
... was in 1875 that Von Schlichmann went north and entered the military service of the Transvaal. It was, I know, when preparations were being made to attack Sekukuni. I was one of those enrolled in the expedition that escorted the arms and ammunition for that campaign from Delagoa ...
— Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer • W. C. Scully
... any way born into the priesthood. They were an order composed of persons selected, when young, out of the higher ranks of the community, either for speciality of intellect, or from disposition, or by the will of their parents, or from a desire to avoid military service, from which the Druids were exempt. There were no tribal distinctions among them. Their head- quarters were in Britain, to which those who aspired to initiation in the more profound mysteries repaired ...
— Caesar: A Sketch • James Anthony Froude
... remained in his encampment at Edendune. This seems to have been the principal concentration of the forces of the Danes which were marshaled for military service; and yet there were large numbers of the people, disbanded soldiers, or non-combatants, who had come over in the train of the armies, that had taken possession of the lands which they had conquered, and had settled upon them for cultivation, as if to make them their permanent home. These intruders ...
— King Alfred of England - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... in time to be of service in the present campaign. The Covenanters, though hailing the rule of William as a deliverance from the rule of James, were persuaded by their ministers that it was a sin to take military service, even against the abhorred Dundee, with men whose orthodoxy was, to say the least, not above suspicion. Seaforth, Lovat, Breadalbane, and the other great lords of the east and south Highlands, ...
— Claverhouse • Mowbray Morris
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