The widow of a non-commissioned officer, a corporal or a sergeant, gets a little more, and the widow of a lieutenant gets over twice as much as a common soldier's widow.
Senneterre, did you ever hear why he enlisted as a common soldier, at the age of eighteen?
As a common soldier, he even carried his scruples so far that he would refuse the slightest invitation from his comrades, if he was not allowed to pay his own score.
Olivier is only a common soldier, I know; but he must have received an excellent education, for he expresses himself admirably and his manners are perfect.
As a common soldier, I should find it rather embarrassing at a military ball to have a lady put me on her dancing-list while scornfully refusing a like favour perhaps to the officer who must assign me to guard-duty next morning.
I hope not, my dear, for I'm no lover of scandal; but do you know, they actually have had the impudence to say that my dear Claire here has been seen at her back door talking to a common soldier.
There is a witness here too,--Pan Skshetuski, no common soldier, and a man who has never told a lie in his life.
At Arcis the Emperor again fought as a common soldier, and more than once drew his sword in order to cut his way through the midst of the enemy who surrounded him.
A common soldier, he became the queen's lover, and the virtual ruler of Spain; died in Paris, 1851.
If I am no longer anything more than a common soldier, I do not need more than one louis per day.
Countess Lena, he fights in your ranks as a common soldier.
At this period Wilfrid had resumed the Austrian uniform as a common soldier in the ranks of the Kinsky regiment.
You can keep your ugly stingy lump of a son; for what is he but a common soldier?
I'm thankful to you, Sir Pearce; but I wouldn't have anyone think that the baronet of my native place would let a common soldier like me sit down in his presence without leave.
He has grown to be like a common soldier," Adela said to herself with an amazed contemplation of the family tie.
In times of war he was always ready, even to act a common soldier's part; but in times of peace he was not in his element.
And that was all the food either general or common soldier had.
After the battle of the Pyramids, in which my father fought with his hunting-rifle like a common soldier (there being no cavalry), he went to see Bonaparte at Gizeh.
His opportunities for education were extremely limited, and in 1762 he entered the military service as a common soldier, in the famous Preobrazhénsky (Transfiguration) infantry regiment of the Guards.
But the death sentence was mitigated in different degrees by the Emperor, Dostoévsky's sentence being commuted to exile with hard labor for four years, and then service as a common soldier in the ranks.
Death is no great terror; I risk it every day for the sake of a common soldier's rations; why should I not chance it for the sake and in the defense of my honor?
Now the Captain is by way of being a gentleman: very likely he was: the story about him, that he had been a common soldier, is improbable and supported by no kind of evidence.
The opportunities for a common soldier to distinguish himself in such an action were few, nor do we ever hear of a king raising a man from the ranks, as Henry raised Owen Tudor, to the post of Esquire to the Body.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common soldier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
