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
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  • 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.
  • She drew a great deal of attention from the assembled soldiery, not all of it just consisting of admiring glances: if she weren't wearing armour-plating, Smith reflected, she must be permanently black and blue. Where Eagles Dare
  • The tribes swiftly rebelled, resentment at foreign incursion compounded by the licentious British soldiery. Times, Sunday Times
  • These mercenaries were, of course, a fierce and rapacious soldiery, and having an idle tale current among themselves, that a lanzknecht was refused admittance into heaven on account of his vices, and into hell on the score of his tumultuous, mutinous, and insubordinate disposition, they manfully acted as if they neither sought the one nor eschewed the other. Quentin Durward
  • This enabled them to keep their distance while they fought, and avoid the risk of being grappled by the larger Spanish ships with their massed ranks of soldiery.
  • July 4, 1779, he related that ‘the soldiery behaved with the most decency that I ever knew them to during the war.’
  • The tribes swiftly rebelled, resentment at foreign incursion compounded by the licentious British soldiery. Times, Sunday Times
  • Behind this rush came some of the heavily armored soldiery of the corridor. SABRIEL
  • The soldiery perceiving him, paused in their onset; he did not swerve from the bullets that passed near him, but rode immediately between the opposing lines. II.9
  • 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. The Automobilist Abroad
  • Civic fathers, fearing for the virtue of their daughters and the sobriety of their sons, lamented the corrupting presence of the ‘drunken and licentious soldiery’.
  • In his writing about the soldiers of Athens, Pressfield salutes citizen soldiery.
  • One of the highest-priced items to be had among the soldiery was a deck of cards. Storm Breaking
  • `They'll never miss one," Dev had said, and it had made a few shillings for the impoverished soldiery. DISPLACED PERSON
  • There was some murmuring among the crowd during this long ceremony; for while Jeanne was alive the English soldiery dared attempt nothing fresh; and they only saw in her refusals to "abjure" an immediate reason for handing her over from the ecclesiastical justice to the secular, whose ways were swifter. The Story of Rouen
  • Grounded in figures of soldiery, of gladiators, of the hunt, of animals enraged or ruttish, it is like a manual of instructions, such as The Prince. An Exchange on Machiavelli
  • Sure, there is patriotism and a noble notion of never disrespecting your side's soldiery.
  • Unwisely, they accompanied their agitation among the soldiery with incitements to mutiny.
  • Now the morning meal was being prepared, the cub once again passed among the waking soldiery passing out bowls of food with deferential ducks of his head.
  • The scientific doctor of Russia was the _feldsher_ or army surgeon, whose sole schooling was obtained among the soldiery and whose knowledge did not extend beyond dressing wounds and giving an occasional dose of physic. Rabbi and Priest A Story
  • Whenever she could, she had a few brief words with the some of the soldiery, all of whom had gathered ‘round the radios.
  • They show how puny the supposed threat can seem, how feeble strutting columns of third world soldiery can abruptly become.
  • Captain Dean voices the sentiment of centuries of colonial soldiery.
  • And we could even espy the flashing red, blue and silver uniforms of the Prussian soldiery themselves. ANTI-ICE
  • The sleepiest and shabbiest of soldiery go wandering about, with the double curse of laziness and poverty, uncouthly wrinkling their misfitting regimentals; the dirtiest of children play with their impromptu toys (pigs and mud) in the feeblest of gutters; and the gauntest of dogs trot in and out of the dullest of archways, in perpetual search of something to eat, which they never seem to find. Pictures from Italy
  • The kings of the Greek Bronze Age counted scribes among their servants, but here too the application was restricted to terse summaries of the palace store s and brief orders to the soldiery.
  • In dread of the Roman soldiery, they returned to the hiding place behind barred doors.
  • When I left the Superintendent he was deciding what to do with these unprepossessing specimens of the soldiery. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
  • At Baugé in 1421 the Scots soldiery tilted the balance against the English.
  • Note: This panegyric on the soldiery is rather too liberal. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Modern warfare, modern weaponry is so hi-tech that if you try to run our defences on the basis of conscription, you have your professional soldiery permanently employed training successive cohorts of conscripts.
  • Needless to say, these measures were generally foiled by the watchfulness of the soldiery; so poker, pontoon, crown-and - anchor and the like continued to flourish, along with housie-housie.
  • And we could even espy the flashing red, blue and silver uniforms of the Prussian soldiery themselves. ANTI-ICE
  • The colonist detested him for his exactions, while his soldiery were a scourge to every district they were quartered upon. The Story of Ireland
  • As Commander of the Oases, Laperrine developed a force of Sahariens, soldiers mounted on racing camels, recruited on strict criteria: knowledge of Arabic, competent soldiery, a clean service record.
  • Both Feudal Japan and Ancient Sparta are renowned for their outstanding soldiery.
  • By this time he had decided to act, and doubtless the fervid Jacobinism of the soldiery was the chief cause determining his action. The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
  • Rim soldiery was everywhere: troopers and cavalry, wagon trains carrying troops and supplies.
  • Behind this rush came some of the heavily armored soldiery of the corridor. SABRIEL
  • The soldiery of the Rhinegrave have mutinied, plucked down the banners of their master, and set up an independent ensign, which they call the pennon of St. Nicholas, under which they declare that they will maintain peace with God, and war with all the world. Anne of Geierstein
  • Not long ago, I took a political blogger named billmon to task for insulting conservative bloggers he didn't like by using the word 'homoerotic' to describe their apparent fixation with America's heroic soldiery. Friday Night Open Thread: Comics
  • -- when their lords travelled from place to place -- with summer-oats, with providing for their cosherings, or feasts, at Christmas and Easter, with "black men and black money," for border defence, and with workmen and axemen from every ploughland, to work in the ditches, or to hew passages for the soldiery through the woods. A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete
  • They marched by the sound of atabal and comet, and, as they traversed the streets of the capital amidst the acclamations of the soldiery, they made the city ring with the shouts of "Castile and Tlascala, long live our sovereign, the emperor. History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes
  • 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 Alcibiades to The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • He has not properly distinguished between the view of rebel leaders and those of the soldiery.
  • Also, there are references wherein he was not exactly a "commoner" and may have received professional training in soldiery.
  • He became an Independent, and all the soldiery were his friends. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
  • For this he was upbraided in the Senate by Fabius Maximus, and called the corrupter of the Roman soldiery. The Prince
  • The camp-fires were lighted; and round them — eating, reposing, talking, looking at the merry steps of the dancing-girls, or listening to the stories of some Dhol Baut (or Indian improvisatore) were thousands of dusky soldiery. Burlesques
  • At the close of the Seven Years' War, the customary dread of a disbanding soldiery was tempered by concern for men whose courage had conquered new territories around the globe.
  • She surveys the endless ranks of his soldiery behind him.
  • The unsuccessful campaign ended disastrously with the death of five-sixths of the colonial soldiery.
  • These were so continuously misleading and disingenuous that the lawyer politicaster who played such a rôle at Paris seemed despicable to the soldiery, and "rogue of a lawyer" was almost synonymous to the military mind with place-holder and civil ruler. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
  • The stocky man was an adventurer; his Father had took soldiery in the Blackhawk Wars in the Old Northwest, and as a frontiersman's son he had no trouble with backwoodsing for weeks, if necessary.
  • He undertook to restore discipline in the army, and the licentious soldiery found a new candidate for the empire in the person of Avitus, of the family of Severus, a beautiful boy of seventeen, who officiated as priest of the sun in Syria, and whose name in history, from the god he served, is called Elagabalus, or Heliogabalus. Ancient States and Empires
  • Beyond the river was a solid wall of soldiery, completely blockading the ford.
  • The local soldiery accompanied Qutubuddin Aibek when he went to Lahore in 1206 to become the first independent Sultan of North India.
  • The pilgrims then muster in great numbers; but the soldiery is reduced to a small escort. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
  • Captain Dean voices the sentiment of centuries of colonial soldiery.
  • There can be no doubt of it -- the soldiery were a very considerable part of the nation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847

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