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  • He could hear their muster-roll called every morning, and their drums beat to quarters at night, and not a change of the sentinels escaped him.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • The muster-roll was swelled by the addition of more than thirty others from the rest of the allies, to whom the same principle of conscription applied, as also it did to the ships already engaged on foreign service.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Athens — just like them, I say — to go and elect, not me, who ever since my name first apepared on the muster-roll have literally worn myself out with military service — now as a captain, now as a colonel — and have received all these wounds from the enemy, look you!

    Memorabilia 2007

  • They also resolved to send a second fleet and an army of Athenians taken from the muster-roll and of allies.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • There are people whose names on the muster-roll of the world show sixty years of service, and yet in all that time they have not had two years of real life, whilst my record of thirty is doubled by the intensity of my love.

    Letters of Two Brides 2007

  • And if you want as large a force as possible at your command, where will you find a man better fitted to test the muster-roll than the general who has used it time and again?

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • At the same time they dispatched Demosthenes to Sicily, as they had intended, with sixty Athenian and five Chian vessels, twelve hundred Athenian heavy infantry from the muster-roll, and as many of the islanders as could be raised in the different quarters, drawing upon the other subject allies for whatever they could supply that would be of use for the war.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • They also voted to send out another army and navy, drawn partly from the Athenians on the muster-roll, partly from the allies.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • These were wont to be laid up at a distance from the city, in the temple of Jupiter Olympius, but were now brought forth for examination to furnish a muster-roll of young men for the war.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • It is not to be questioned that they were deeply affected by a sense of regret for their lost comrades, and astounded beyond measure at finding themselves the sole survivors of a garrison of 1,895 men, but with true British pluck and self-control, they had done nothing more than draw up a report that 1,882 names were missing from the muster-roll.

    Off on a Comet 2003

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