recruity

But a voice awoke the recruity from his reverie -- a voice of authority which asked with a most unnecessary emphasis what the blank, blank he meant by skulking there, when he knew conventionally well that he had been conventionally well ordered to the quartermaster's stores to get his conventional kit.

VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray

The new recruity stood there planted in the barrack square, as innocent of his surroundings as if he had been asleep, and mechanically filled and lit his pipe, and stood on with his chin sunk upon his breast, scarcely aware of his own thoughts, and as yet realising little but solitude and an ache in the doleful middle of it.

VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray

And amazement sat on many foreheads when the carriage rolled away, and the General stood up to wave his hat to the recruity, and the lady stood up to wave her hand, and the recruity, unconscious of the interest he excited, waved the shabby old sealskin cap in answer until the equipage was ringingly saluted at the gate, and swung swiftly out of sight.

VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray

'Wanst upon a time, as the childer-books say, I was a recruity.'

Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

_ Me that taught you how for to walk abroad like a man -- whin you was a dhirty little, fish-backed little, whimperin 'little recruity.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

'I was a betther recruity than you iver was or will be, but that's neither here nor there.

Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

Sergeant's wife whin McKenna died, but she b'longs to B Comp'ny; and this tale I'm tellin 'you-_wid_ a proper appreciashin av Jhansi McKenna -- I've belted into ivry recruity av the Comp'ny as he was drafted.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

"Wanst upon a time, as the childer-books say, I was a recruity."

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

Me that taught you how for to walk abroad like a man -- whin you was a dhirty little, fish-backed little, whimperin 'little recruity.

Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

Then she laughed a little, and said: "Only a raw recruity would look at an officer's daughter, or any lady of the line."

The Desert and the Sown Mary Hallock Foote 1892