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    deserter


    1. "As a military deserter we have legal control over you and the duty to carry it out," Alfred pointed out


    2. So you have your military case that I'm a military deserter," Alan said, "But you have no moral ground as a mother for what you're doing


    3. They already consider me a deserter and will call me a traitor for talking to you


    4. As expected, with no evidence to convict the Deserter General, Blackburn was exonerated of all charges and was let go


    5. consul, according to Waddell, offered one deserter a promise of


    6. When he didn’t return to Grabensheim, he would be listed as a deserter from the Army, and his family would be shamed


    7. Because he was now undoubtedly classified as a deserter, if he made it out of Poland, he was probably destined to spend the rest of his enlistment, perhaps longer, in a military prison somewhere


    8. He had been AWOL for over 90 days, and accepted the fact that he was now classified as a deserter three times over


    9. Well, Sergeant Colling, if that is who you are, you are listed as a deserter from the United States Army


    10. Colling, as you say, you are a deserter, and I am not in the habit of discussing matters with the family members of deserters and criminals

    11. Should I be caught I would be shot as a deserter, no questions asked


    12. He probably knew how close he had come to being shot as a deserter


    13. Stories had it that only one deserter ever made it alive to the end of the first part


    14. At heart, this ordained ambassador of the kingdom was already a deserter; it only remained for him to find some plausible excuse for an open break with the Master


    15. In its last motive of conscious intention, Judas's betrayal of Jesus was the cowardly act of a selfish deserter whose only thought was his own safety and glorification, no matter what might be the results of his conduct upon his Master and upon his former associates


    16. "You are an Imperialist pig! A traitor! A deserter!" He nodded at the naval infantry officer


    17. “Technically, you are either AWOL or a deserter and can be punished for that fact


    18. “What about our friends and relatives here? Wouldn’t you also be considered a deserter for leaving like this in the middle of the war?”


    19. I even got to shoot one such deserter as he was trying to break down our door while Henri was absent


    20. Cai now going on, increasing my unease by telling me, “You should have seen what happened to him after he found out you were gone, deserter

    21. He thought you had betrayed him, deserter


    22. The colonel in charge of defending Saint-Malo has made speeches to these men, speeches about valor, about how any hour the Hermann Göring Division will break the American line at Avranches, how reinforcements will pour in from Italy and possibly Belgium, tanks and Stukas, truckloads of fifty-millimeter mortars, how the people of Berlin believe in them like a nun believes in God, how no one will abandon his post and if he does he’ll be executed as a deserter, but von Rumpel is thinking now of the vine inside of him


    23. The opening verse described grieving relatives trying to contact an executed deserter at a séance just after the First World War


    24. We all profess the Christian law of forgiveness of injuries and love of our neighbors, the law in honor of which we have built in Moscow forty times forty churches- but yesterday a deserter was knouted to death and a minister of that same law of love and forgiveness, a priest, gave the soldier a cross to kiss before his execution


    25. Toward dawn, Count Orlov-Denisov, who had dozed off, was awakened by a deserter from the French army being brought to him


    26. And who put the flowers here, may I ask? Was it you, Lorkyn, you traitor to everything they believed? It had to be, did it not? You petty deserter


    27. The first, as I afterwards learnt, was the deserter, Corporal Béloborodoff


    28. I looked with disgust upon a gentleman at the feet of a Cossack deserter


    29. The criminals most cruelly whipped, and who were celebrated as brigands of the first order, enjoyed more respect and attention than a simple deserter, a recruit, like the one who had just been brought in


    30. I do not know how it was he became a soldier, for perhaps he lied, and had always been a deserter and vagabond

    31. He had committed no crime—at least, he was under suspicion of none—but all through his life he had been a deserter, a deserter from every post


    32. We all profess the Christian law of forgiveness of injuries and love of our neighbors, the law in honor of which we have built in Moscow forty times forty churches—but yesterday a deserter was knouted to death and a minister of that same law of love and forgiveness, a priest, gave the soldier a cross to kiss before his execution


    33. Ritter Winter now forgot that he was speaking with a deserter, whom it was his duty to arrest


    34. This goes to prove, as far as the authority of the gentleman from Vermont and of my worthy friend from South Carolina has influence, that a long course of opposition has instilled into the gentleman something of the principles which did not belong to his friends while in power; that he is a deserter from his party, and consequently that I have remained a faithful sentinel at my post


    35. Under this act, made expressly for the protection of American seamen, every foreign seaman, almost, at the moment of setting his feet on our shores, has obtained a certificate from some collector, that he is a citizen of the United States; and, with this certificate in his pocket, although perhaps a deserter from his own Government, he enters a public or private vessel, as an American seaman


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    Synonyms for "deserter"

    defector deserter apostate ratter recreant renegade turncoat craven dastard traitor

    "deserter" definitions

    a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.


    a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post)