Note: This panegyric on the soldiery is rather too liberal. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
The pilgrims then muster in great numbers; but the soldiery is reduced to a small escort. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference
He became an Independent, and all the soldiery were his friends. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference
There can be no doubt of it -- the soldiery were a very considerable part of the nation. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
In addition to the soldiery was a multitude of non-combatants and other incumbrances, which. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality] Reference
The colonist detested him for his exactions, while his soldiery were a scourge to every district they were quartered upon. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ireland] Reference
He is popular with the soldiery and with the higher officers. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Jealous of the interests of her brave soldiery; for they are our own. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
The soldiery told numberless tales of his eccentricity -- laughed at, mimicked, and adored him. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
The soldiery tumbled the building over the precipice, and the land was free of all incumbrances. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Moreover, the sympathy 'extended to the soldiery' is the sympathy not of the American people, but of 'the. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Dr. Scarlett-Synge, with the picture of drunken soldiery very vivid in her remembrance, ventured to remonstrate. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
Act for quartering and billetting the soldiery; and the eleventh granted for the clerks of parliament £88 1s. 9d. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
An intelligent soldiery gathered in this way, will not let attachments to men blind them as to the effects of measures. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
Endangered by the fire of their friends if they continue within the city, and plundered by the soldiery if they leave it. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
Defeat had befallen him so far and death, sickness, fatigue and discomfiture had its depressing effect upon his soldiery. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
As far as spirit went there was no deficiency, but Canada was worse off for money than the United States was for soldiery. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Yet they stood at attention and made no noise or movement at our passing, instead being the essence of well disciplined soldiery. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolutions of Time] Reference
The boys called him a "mongrel"; and neither the Federal nor Confederate commands of boy soldiery would allow him in their ranks. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
General Grant, was so sorrowfully and universally mourned by the volunteer soldiery of the Union as was the death of General Logan. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
For the Flemish soldiery, who had brought the fool and herself to the camp, the young girl had a nod and a word, but it was the men of. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
With a wind blowing straight for France the English soldiery spread their sails to try one more campaign against their ancient enemies. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
A hurried, many-voiced reply, and hastening on past a heterogeneous collection of soldiery -- couriers, cavalry-men, malingerers, stragglers. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The details of these battles, which for endurance and bravery on the part of the soldiery, have rarely been surpassed, are given in the report of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Richmond, could not have more completely labored by their half-hearted, inefficient, and tyrannizing course, to crush the spirit of our soldiery. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
It was notorious during the winter and spring of the year 1655, that he had appeased discontent among his soldiery; had quieted, in prison, Harrison. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Paul should be pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiery to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle. From Wordnik.com. [The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union.] Reference
Reformers must, however, remember, that to keep our citizen-soldiery effective, they must not make too much of the citizen and too little of the soldier. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
The soldiery in Pakistan comes from the poorest of areas, which would empty if their sons did not serve in the armed forces and labor in the Gulf countries. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call And Correction: Not Everyone's War] Reference
The wind died away, and the night deepened, cool, tranquil, starlit, on a camp of weary soldiery, where contentment and good will ruled for the hour over all. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Celt, Thomas Cargill, of Ballyshannon, saved the records of Concord when the British soldiery went out from Boston to destroy the military stores in Middlesex. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
I will at once to Cardinal Monti, complain that my daughter has been seized by the bandits and offer with the aid of Captain Morrel to lead a detachment of soldiery against them. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Strategically it was important then as it is important now, and Roman soldiery of the past, as the automobilist of to-day, had here four great thoroughfares leading from the city. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
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