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Muster

verb

(past & past part. mustered; pres. part. mustering)

Gather or bring together. Synonyms: come up, muster up, rally, summon. "She rallied her intellect" , "Summon all your courage"

Call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc..

noun

A gathering of military personnel for duty.

Compulsory military service. Synonyms: conscription, draft, selective service.

Must

adjective

Highly recommended.

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"Muster" Quotes from Famous Books

... old man Rhett said it was. Sundays his do'yard looked like a militia muster. They told it on him that he hadn't cut a stick of wood since Polly was risin' twelve. I reckon, without exaggeration, I fit every unmarried man in that end of the county, and two lookin' widowers ...

— The Prodigal Judge • Vaughan Kester

... instead of bemoaning their fate they had set to work with right good will, and after ten months' labour had succeeded in building two little ships which they named the Patience and the Deliverance. Then, having filled them with such stores as they could muster, they set sail joyfully to join their comrades at Jamestown. But now what horror and astonishment was theirs! They had hoped to find a flourishing town, surrounded by well tilled fields. Instead they saw ruins and desolation. They had hoped to be greeted joyfully by stalwart, ...

— This Country Of Ours • H. E. Marshall Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

... to carry some of them on the deck, without imminent danger of their lives: but, as we likewise knew it would be to no purpose for us to remonstrate against it, we repaired to the quarter-deck in a body, to see this extraordinary muster; Morgan observing by the way, that the captain was going to send to the other world a great many evidences to testify against himself. When we appeared upon deck, the captain bade the doctor, who stood ...

— The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett

... or some other improbable place. In silence Maggie obeyed, pouting the while a very little, partly because she should not again see Henry, partly because she had confidently expected to ride home with Mr. Carrollton, and partly because she wished to stay to the firemen's muster, which had long been talked about, and was to take place on the morrow. They were ready at last, and then in a very perturbed state of feeling Madam Conway waited for her carriage, which was not forthcoming, and upon inquiry George Douglas learned ...

— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes

... comes in, so that the court looks more like a university than a palace. Would to God the houses of the nobles were ruled like the queen's! The nobility are followed by great troops of serving-men in showy liveries; and it is a goodly sight to see them muster at court, which, being filled with them, "is made like to the show of a peacock's tail in the full beauty, or of some meadow garnished with infinite kinds and diversity of pleasant flowers." Such was the discipline of Elizabeth's court that any man who struck another ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

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