Crossword-Solution: ENLISTIN 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Who sent him to war? Who filled his head full of rubbish about patriotism, and duty to the country, and all the rest of the rotten Wall Street stuff? Who put my boy up to enlistin', Jed Winslow?" Jed's foot swung slowly back and forth.

When he came to me to ask what he ought to do about enlistin', asked what I'd do if I was he, I told him; that's all there was to it." Babbitt extended a shaking forefinger.

And when he came back from enlistin' he was goin' straight to you to make a clean breast of everything.

Say, Al, you didn't say anything about--about my--er--enlistin' to Cap'n Lote, did you? I meant to ask you not to.” “I didn't, Labe.

But I don't want the other to be kicked into doin' summat; which is what'll happen to us farmin' chaps if we don't start enlistin'." "The aggericultural community," persisted his father, who had picked up that resonant term at meetings of the Farmers' Union, "is, an' always has been, the backbone of England." "Then 'tis time we showed it, in the Yeomanry." "I wish you'd hold your tongue on that word; when you know your mother never hears it spoke but she wakes me up at night with the palpitations.