Volunteers

As discipline improved and the men began to feel that they were no longer simply volunteers, but _enlisted volunteers_, the romantic devotion which they had felt was succeeded by a feeling of constraint and necessity, and while the army was in reality very much improved and strengthened by the change, the soldiers imagined the contrary to be the case. ❋ Carlton McCarthy (1872)

And as I sit outside and listen to the siren wail and wonder what it calls the volunteers to face, tradition has me cross myself and then, whoops, I remember: I've already bothered Him or It or Whatever this day, this week, this month, this year. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The villains know that there are hundreds of men, friends of the prisoners with whom they have crowded the jails, who would tear them down stone by stone, if they had the power; but in addition to the prison warders -- not the men that used to be there, but men taken from the lowest class in the town -- the prisons are watched by what they call the volunteers, fifteen hundred men belonging to the scum of the city -- the men from the slaughterhouses, the skinners ', and the tan yards Some of these are ever on guard round the prisons, night and day. ❋ Stanley L. Wood (1867)

Only when they saw that militia and short-term volunteers could not hold their own against the British at New York did they agree to create an army of men serving for at least three years and under strict discipline. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)

Two volunteers from the Department of Wildlife came by to get it. ❋ Terrie (2009)

"We are seeing a rebirth of the kind of idealism that we saw during the Kennedy era" of the 1960s, when the Peace Corps was founded, she says, noting that the average age of Peace Corps volunteers is 27. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For more than a year they relied on militia and short-term volunteers organized into a Continental Army under George Washington to resist the British at Boston and New York and sustain their petitions to the crown. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)

Data show that the number of volunteers is steadily growing among all age groups. ❋ Douglas LaBier (2010)

The maintenance manager for Fusion UVC Systems said he started volunteering originally because his job received a request for volunteers from the Montgomery County government. ❋ Christopher Dean Hopkins (2010)

It is written for staff and volunteers from the third sector and is especially useful for people who provide support to other organisations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The average age of Peace Corps volunteers is 28, but 7 percent are over age 50 (the oldest is 86). ❋ Ed O'Keefe (2010)

And to judge by its promotional video, in which a dashing company of volunteers is seen hurtling after criminals in a blaze of sirens, searchlights and helicopter racket, being a special does look fantastic, like taking the central role in a police drama at the same time that you become an accredited philanthropist in the tradition of Spiderman and other precursors of the "big society". ❋ Catherine Bennett (2010)

Free-fall blogging for volunteers is good fun, with no worrying about if peers approve/are impressed etc, that it was pointed out museum professionals have to continually think about. ❋ Mia (2009)

Lately, I have had an increase in volunteers because of the reasons that you mention. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the [game came] on TV, all the volunteers left [the job] to [watch it]. ❋ Alfredo Fettucini (2013)

If the [volunteers] at urban dictionary don't fucking post this [they deserve] to die [in a hole]. ❋ Brade-steed (2018)

1)-"Where were you Saturday?" -"I was volunteering... [tutoring] little kids in math." -"Wasn't it lame?" -"Not really. They even sorta looked up to me. It was cool." -"[Okay then]..." 2) She was volunteering at the library every weekend to log enough [community service] hours to graduate. ❋ Andriod5 (2005)

[Attorney]: if you don't want to go on [probation], you had better get your 24 hours of [volunteering] done. I recommend seniors and the latino employment fair. ❋ CAMOBLACKICEXXXXX (2009)

"I hate [my job]. My [boss] totally volunteered me to do the [budget]" ❋ ScottG (2007)

That [volunteer] didn’t even [read] [my definition] ❋ Bronelson (2020)

They want us to do work for free, that they would have to pay outside contractors to do, and they call it volunteer service. I call it [screwing] [the help], but I'll do it because [I need this] job. ❋ Benth (2009)

I will volunteer to help fascilitate a presentation at my favorite [conference] for the benefit of [reduced] [registration] costs. ❋ Matt Buckman (2007)

Let's go [Vols]! I attend [the University] of [Tennessee], home of the Volunteers. ❋ JTHNASH (2009)

Our organization is proud have so many [volunteers] willing to [give up] their [spare time] to help in our goals. ❋ DueyDooDah (2011)