How To Use soldiery In A Sentence
- Born at Eleusis, reared there, trained in soldiery, he fought when about thirty-five in the famous battle of Marathon, during which the small Athenian army defeated the mighty Persians.
- He wore a long cloak that flapped in the breeze; clasped on one shoulder with the brooch of the Silver Guard, it was a relic from his days of legitimate soldiery.
- As a soldiery's widow, her love has a bloody full stop and left two childrens and her.
- Meanwhile the chiefs at Samos, and especially Thrasybulus, who from the moment that he had changed the government had remained firmly resolved to recall Alcibiades, at last in an assembly brought over the mass of the soldiery, and upon their voting for his recall and amnesty, sailed over to Tissaphernes and brought The History of the Peloponnesian War
- In addition to the soldiery was a multitude of non-combatants and other incumbrances, which Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
- Gathered in convents which were also barracks, combining with the passive obedience of the soldier, the spontaneous submission of the religious, living shoulder to shoulder in brotherly union, commander and subordinate, these orders surpassed, in that cohesiveness which is the ideal of every military organization, the most famous bodies of picked soldiery known to history, from the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- My master and the Prince accompanied by K'ang Yu-wei and a small garrison of quickly degenerating soldiery fled eastward toward Ch'I-chou.
- While the soldiery long saw it as a right, at the highest level looting was authorised to create new collections: in Napoleon's case, the Louvre.
- And truly, until my hands were bound, and I was limited, (to my own great satisfaction, as many can bear me witness,) while I had in my hands so great a power and arbitrariness -- the soldiery were a very considerable part of these nations, especially all government being dissolved. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
- In the light of modern ideas about soldiery and a somewhat clearer understanding of shell shock, or post-traumatic stress disorder, most people have greeted the news with approval.