How To Use Common soldier In A Sentence
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His letters are generally easy reading, and are filled with great detail about the life of the common soldier.
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He was a common soldier in Company E of the 25th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, finishing the war as a corporal.
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Now, fully half of Napoleon's marshals had started their careers as common soldiers.
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Historians have for years analyzed the social aspects of the Civil War and the common soldiers who fought it.
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This encouragement must be particularly addressed to the common soldiers by a priest appointed, and, the Jews say, anointed, for that purpose, whom they call the anointed of the war, a very proper title for our anointed Redeemer, the captain of our salvation: This priest, in God's name, was to animate the people; and who so fit to do that as he whose office it was as priest to pray for them?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
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The brave warriors smiled upon their king as he removed his commander's helmet and donned one of a common soldier who had fallen in battle.
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A general of an army may be of more consequence to the welfare of a nation than a thousand common soldiers; so one idea like that of evolution may be worth a full ten thousand like the fact that "our neighbor's cat kittened yesterday.
How to Study and Teaching How to Study
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Whilst the chamade was beating, Colonel Cotton, sent by General Wills, rode up the street, and alighted at the sign of the Mitre: the firing meantime had not ceased from several of the houses: the common soldiers were ignorant of the real state of the case, and believed that General
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
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His account of his experiences as a common soldier are riveting, and they magnificently capture the monotony of endless drilling, guard duty, and camp chores that consumed most of his days.
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But now, "he wagged his head again," these are cutch-sahibs, not pakka-sahibs - and the English common soldiers are no better.
Fiancée
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Notables, some were of balass-ruby and some of carnelian, others of coral or Comorin aloes-wood and yet others of ebony or silver or gold; and each had his own idol, after the measure of his competence; whilst the idols of the common soldiers and of the people were some of granite, some of wood, some of pottery and some of mud; and all were of various hues yellow and red; green, black and white.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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From a kind of foppery peculiar to himself, he wears the thick cloak of a common soldier.
A Hero of Our Time
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As many as goe out to warfare doe prouide all things of their owne cost: they fight not on foote, but altogether on horsebacke: their armour is a coate of maile, and a helmet: the coate of maile without is gilded, or els adorned with silke, although it pertaine to a common soldier: they haue a great pride in shewing their wealth: they vse bowes, and arrowes, as the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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He was just a common soldier and his ranks are growing thin.
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The heroism and suffering of the common soldiers who served under him moved him deeply.
Times, Sunday Times
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Punning on the political spoilsman, he produced three volumes of war correspondence from the viewpoint of a tipsy literary bohemian among the common soldiers.
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He's not an officer, but a common soldier.
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She gave a tribute to the common soldiers whom she felt were the true heroes of the war, selflessly diminishing the importance of her own sacrifice.
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Despite their variety, some of the better memoirs come from the perspective of the common soldier.
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I am not asking about those points, says he; I am going to add as judges, common soldiers of the legion of Alaudae; 1 for our friends say that that is the only measure by which they can be saved.
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What was life like for the common soldier?
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But these conditions were rarely met, and as the war dragged on, the condition of the common soldiers deteriorated more than ever.
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Wert makes his most intriguing assessment in describing the morale and attitudes of the common soldier who filled the ranks of the Army of the Potomac.
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So please your idiocy, thou art an ass," said Cromwell; but, instantly recollecting that the corporal had been one of the adjutators or tribunes of the common soldiers, and was therefore to be treated with suitable respect, he said, "Nevertheless, if it be the device of Satan, please it the Lord we will resist him, and the foul slave shall fly from us.
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
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After dealing so extensively with the political context and the experiences of common soldiers, Rable devotes only 80 pages to the actual fighting of 13 December 1862.
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Sledge gives the common soldier his just due in eloquent prose that explores the emotions and trauma associated with a brutal war and its consequences.
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The deliberate burial of an unknown soldier could not arise until the idea that common soldiers ought to have individual graves had arisen.
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Soon disillusioned by the lot of the common soldier, he deserted and returned home; his youth saving him from military punishment.
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Dedicated in 1921 as a monument to World War I's common soldier, the Tomb ennobles the common people of a democratic society.
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The Theban hoplites drilled endlessly and, whether common soldier or wealthy cavalryman, were ruled by iron discipline.
Alexander the Great
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“So please your idiocy, thou art an ass,” said Cromwell; but, instantly recollecting that the corporal had been one of the adjutators or tribunes of the common soldiers, and was therefore to be treated with suitable respect, he said, “Nevertheless, if it be the device of Satan, please it the Lord we will resist him, and the foul slave shall fly from us. —
Woodstock
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Padded jacks and brigandines are still prevalent for common soldiers.
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The badge, not generally awarded to officers above the rank of lieutenant colonel, symbolized Matthew Ridgway's association with the common soldier.
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My father had no time for Ansgar, just because he had been a mercenary and a common soldier.
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The heroism and suffering of the common soldiers who served under him moved him deeply.
Times, Sunday Times
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Zamoyski's description of the privations of the common soldier to and from Moscow in ‘Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow’ would strike a chord too.
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The heroism and suffering of the common soldiers who served under him moved him deeply.
Times, Sunday Times
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But now, "he wagged his head again," these are cutch-sahibs, not pakka-sahibs — and the English common soldiers are no better.
Flashman In The Great Game
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A major strength of the book is Glover's ability to intersperse the action of conflict with quotes from the common soldier and Wellesley himself.
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The unspecialised common soldier, the infantryman who has stood and marched and moved in ranks and ranks, the "serried lines of men," who are the main substance of every battle story for the last three thousand years, are as obsolete as the dodo.
War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war
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Bidermann started the war as a common soldier, a Landser, and finished it as a gun captain.
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It is more important that the soldiers, the common soldiers, see us doing something.
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Many among the common soldiers were inclined to agree.
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If you were conscripted as a common soldier some two hundred years ago, you had to get permission to get married.
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A common soldier from a state that never seceded, Green was a volunteer.
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If you were conscripted as a common soldier some two hundred years ago, you had to get permission to get married.
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He's not an officer, but a common soldier.
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a kind of foppery peculiar to himself, he wears the thick cloak of a common soldier.
A Hero of Our Time
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Now, fully half of Napoleon's marshals had started their careers as common soldiers.
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Men-at-arms and common soldiers carried daggers too and occasionally short, curved multi-purpose swords.
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Now, half of Napoleon's marshals had once been common soldiers.
