"Deserter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... appears to be this—that he insists that the race must always count for more than the individual, and that the individual must fall in line and step with the average conventions of the race at the expense of his own well-being, or be judged a deserter and a recreant. ...
— The Quest of the Simple Life • William J. Dawson
... enemy showed no disposition to renew the attack. We could perceive, however, from the road to the southward, by the long columns of dust, that reinforcements were still arriving; and learned during the morning, from a deserter, that Massena himself had come up, and Bessieres also, with twelve hundred cavalry, and a battery of ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... choice once made was his own choice, and he adhered to it as such. Conversions from one sect to another were of quite rare occurrence. A certain Dionysius of Heraclea, who went over from the Stoics to the Cyrenaics, was ever afterward known as "the deserter." It was as difficult to be independent in philosophy as it is with us to be independent in politics. When a young man joined a school, he committed himself to all its opinions, not only as to the end of life, which was the main point of division, ...
— A Little Book of Stoicism • St George Stock
... here, my lad,' said the Sergeant. 'You've been through the mill before, you have. You're a deserter, you know, that's what ...
— VC -- A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea • David Christie Murray
... be," answered Maitland; "he might not have gained her love, but her obedience still was due to him. He left her, too, in charge of the castle, and now she has fled from her post like a deserter. Poor lassie, I would not be hard on her, though; and I doubt not by this time she is wishing herself on shore again, for the gallant ship she thought so brave must be pitching and rolling pretty heavily ...
— Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships - A Story of the Last Naval War • W.H.G. Kingston
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