voluntaire

In answer to questions, I informed them that I was a student for five years at Harvard (expressing great surprise that they had never heard of Harvard), that I had come to New York and studied painting, that I had enlisted in New York as _conducteur voluntaire_, embarking for France shortly after, about the middle of April.

The Enormous Room 1928

We obtained a picture of Max Crepin, carbinier voluntaire, in which he looks seventy years of age -- he was really seventeen.

In the Claws of the German Eagle Albert Rhys Williams 1922

According to De Thou and the majority of historians, it was on the occasion of the insurrection in Guienne against the Babel that Stephen de la Boetie, the young and intimate friend of Montaigne, wrote his celebrated _Discours de la Servitude voluntaire, ou le Contre-un, _ an eloquent declamation against monarchy.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 1830

The fact that they never have and never will is the only thing that makes it possible for George Will, Dinesh D’Souza, and the other complacent creeps of the noblesse voluntaire not to notice the lie in their own claim to membership in decent society.

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