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    desertion


    1. desertion elements of truth in the ministry today,


    2. with crops, and there was little sign of desertion or


    3. We think that they may have known something about his desertion and that he was trying to silence them whatever happened they are dead Sir and Corporal Lamb is still alive


    4. Not returning from leave would have been regarded as desertion and that carried a serious penalty, so it seldom happened


    5. There had been little flogging, and that only in flagrant cases; and in consequence of the respect generated by the white officers, there had been no desertion, and no disaffection among the thousands of men of various tribes employed as bearers, and in other capacities


    6. Caroline filed for divorce, citing François’ history of violence, desertion, armed assault and cocaine addiction


    7. That reminded Colling that the issue of his desertion still loomed ahead, but he did not mention his concern


    8. Isn’t desertion a better proposition? Or is it really! Won’t the outcome be the same for the hapless woman? How unbecoming life can become to a woman in this man’s world


    9. They were all surprisingly startled by the suddenness and completeness of the desertion of the populace


    10. 7 In ordinary circumstances the apostles would have bidden the Master a personal good night, but this evening they were so preoccupied with the sudden realization of Judas's desertion and so overcome by the unusual nature of the Master's farewell prayer that they listened to his good-bye salutation and went away in silence

    11. This desertion, however, was the direct cause of Aquilonia's defeat by the desperate Nemedians, and brought down on the Bossonians the cruel wrath of the imperialists—intolerant and short-sighted as imperialists invariably are


    12. They could even charge you with desertion


    13. However, this desertion at five o’clock had a


    14. Desertion on the part of those who seem to have been treated quite well has also been documented in many cases


    15. The son that they would lose in the SOLDIER desertion, but neither would know that in this moment of happiness


    16. The corporal could well be saying the truth, but his word would count for little against that of a Caucasian officer and he was still technically guilty of desertion, on top of having fired on fellow American troops


    17. Those men here are now under arrest and will have to face a court martial for desertion and attempted murder of American soldiers


    18. states that men who fear desertion by women should admonish them, leave them alone in the


    19. Because the conscripts needed the horses more than the soldiers did, Ackerly decided to hold off the desertion until the night following their arrival


    20. What’s worse, desertion that is a corollary to seduction could affect her self-belief all the more

    21. When in the end, the inevitable desertion is on hand; won’t women wonder about the futility of it all? And it looks like your idea could be a via media


    22. They had lost men from desertion on the road to Sevenoaks but had received reinforcements from Sussex


    23. This isn’t just punishment for attacking Glenn, but for your desertion


    24. mother's death and Polly's desertion, none of which had served to help enlighten me


    25. without assumption declare, that, though I could excuse the birth, I could not the desertion of this unfortunate babe:--and, while I despised the man, it was not


    26. And the calumnious, baseless, gratuitous, circumstantial lie charging poor Captain Smith with desertion of his post by means of suicide is the vilest and most ugly thing of all in this outburst of journalistic enterprise, without feeling, without honour, without decency


    27. She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart; his seduction and desertion of Miss Williams, the misery of that poor girl, and the doubt of what his designs might once have been on herself, preyed altogether so much on her spirits, that she could not bring herself to speak of what she felt even to Elinor; and, brooding over her sorrows in silence, gave more pain to her sister than could have been communicated by the most open and most frequent confession of them


    28. However much his influence among his people had been impaired by his occasional and besetting weakness, as well as by his desertion of the tribe, his courage and his fame as an orator were undeniable


    29. Most of all he commented adversely on the desertion of Stephen by all his pubhunting confreres but one, a most glaring piece of ratting on the part of his brother medicos under all the circs


    30. You have only to remain in Paris for about a fortnight, telling the world you are abandoned, and relating the details of this desertion to your best friends, who will soon spread the report

    31. In the following cases: physical defect in the married parties, desertion without communication for five years,’ he said, crooking a short finger covered with hair, ‘adultery’ (this word he pronounced with obvious satisfaction), ‘subdivided as follows’ (he continued to crook his fat fingers, though the three cases and their subdivisions could obviously not be classified together): ‘physical defect of the husband or of the wife, adultery of the husband or of the wife


    32. Do you see that, Capataz? He need fear no desertion as long as some hope remains of that enormous plunder turning up


    33. “Plow furloughs” were not looked upon in the same light as desertion in the face of the enemy, but they weakened the army just the same


    34. Or even walking, it’s a nice night”—which it wasn’t, it was a sweltering, tropical, miserable night, with the gunpowder stink of the fireworks just ended, and already, out of the humid desertion of post-celebratory streets, a cab had materialized, a big yellow answer to a question Mercer didn’t know how to formulate


    35. “But the Captain,” Horatio continu’d, “was swiftly punish’d for his Desertion of his Men—for the greatest Shark I’ve e’er seen (in Pictures or at Sea) fairly seiz’d him from the Boat and snapp’d him in two! ’Twas verily as if the Devil himself had come in the Guise of a Fish and in an Instant he ate his Hindquarters, then his Torso and his Arms, but left his Head bobbing like an Orange upon the Sea


    36. My mother-in-law came to me in tears and said that Helene was here and that she implored me to hear her; that she was innocent and unhappy at my desertion, and much more


    37. "But Mona, in the time of my desertion, had made love with Michael and was already carrying a Taltos child, though she didn't know it


    38. She felt the loss of Willoughby’s character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart; his seduction and desertion of Miss Williams, the misery of that poor girl, and the doubt of what his designs might ONCE have been on herself, preyed altogether so much on her spirits, that she could not bring herself to speak of what she felt even to Elinor; and, brooding over her sorrows in silence, gave more pain to her sister than could have been communicated by the most open and most frequent confession of them


    39. The curate, who had been crouching silently with his arms over his head, looked up as I passed, cried out quite loudly at my desertion of him, and came running after me


    40. Where there was no black powder, it was curiously like a Sunday in the City, with the closed shops, the houses locked up and the blinds drawn, the desertion, and the stillness

    41. This Gavrilka, while still tramping about, had been mixed up in some way with the Lomofs (his confinement in one jail was for quite a short sentence, for desertion from the army and tramping)


    42. With tears and lamentations she reproached Pyotr Stepanovitch for his "desertion


    43. My mother-in-law came to me in tears and said that Hélène was here and that she implored me to hear her; that she was innocent and unhappy at my desertion, and much more


    44. To what purpose do we keep up the Marines, another branch of the Establishment? If I am correctly informed, these men are willing to run away whenever they have a chance to desert—if they can get an opportunity—and I am willing that they shall quit the service without being exposed to be brought to a court martial for desertion


    45. Sir, to us, it matters little whether our cities tumble into ruin by desertion for want of employment, by poverty produced by British wrongs and aggression, or, in vindicating the cause of our country, fall by a quicker process


    46. Death, resignation, and desertion had thinned their ranks


    47. Under those laws, a clear obligation is created upon the apprentice to serve till of age; and in some States, to compensate for absence or desertion during the stipulated apprenticeship; for a faithful performance, the parent or guardian becomes responsible; and for non-performance, liable for damages to the master


    48. Can the authors of this bill imagine that those solemn obligations contained in indentures of apprenticeship, will dissolve and vanish under the charm of the bill? Can the fundamental principles of the constitution, rendering contracts sacred, be thus uprooted and destroyed? Can this bill deprive the master of his action, secured to him by the laws of the State, against the master or guardian for absence or desertion of the apprentice? Here is a most serious bearing upon the laws of the States, regulating this important relation


    49. said he would ask his worthy colleague, what he supposed would have been the fate of a certain Benedict Arnold, had he been brought alive to the American camp, after his desertion from it? On that subject there can be but one opinion


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    Synonyms for "desertion"

    abandonment defection desertion forsaking escape flight evasion disaffection disavowal renunciation

    "desertion" definitions

    withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility


    the act of giving something up