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I got fever after Targai; was invalided home; and here I am recruiting and finishing 144 my book.

From The Mistress of Shenstone by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)

I am recruiting again; I believe our regiment won't go abroad this summer.

From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

I am recruiting myself," said Porthos, "I am recruiting myself.

From The Three Musketeers by Dumas père, Alexandre

I am recruiting my resources for a movement into the interior of the hills, in which I shall follow Wilcox’s route, taking with me 15 coolies, for whom I am collecting grain. 

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William