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Example sentences for "good soldier"

  • If you want a good soldier, take that aristocrat of the Chasse-Marais--that beau Victor.

  • And a good soldier, which is better," growled the General of Brigade, who had begun life in his time driving an ox-plow over the heavy tillage of Alsace.

  • We cannot afford to throw away a good soldier because he has made his own land too hot to hold him.

  • I knew he was a good soldier; but to drive Bogun as he would a white-faced mare, I did not expect that of him.

  • Barabash was indeed a good soldier, but old and without influence.

  • Hmelnitski is a good soldier, Krivonos a good one; but among the Cossacks there is many a cowardly sneak.

  • Count Saxe used to say, laughing, that according to Machiavelli, I lacked an essential of a good soldier--gaiety of heart.

  • Count Saxe asked about my case, and the officer in charge said I was to die for stealing two crowns--and that I had been a good soldier.

  • The personal affection which Count Saxe always had for Gaston Cheverny was extreme, and that was the best guaranty of Gaston's military fortunes; for Count Saxe would never let a good soldier go unrewarded.

  • Many a man may fancy himself a good soldier, and forget that a soldier is a man, and something more; and that therefore, before you can be a good soldier, you must first be more or less of a good man.

  • Thou therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

  • I was dreadfully shocked at the loss of my good soldier--he had been much beloved by us all.

  • Ali Nedjar was a good soldier, a warm lover of the girls, and a great dancer; thus, according to African reputation, he was the ne plus ultra of a man.

  • His body was pierced with thirty-two lance wounds; thus he had fought gallantly to the last, and he had died like a good soldier; but he was treacherously murdered instead of dying on a fair battle-field.

  • He was not a man who put on rich garments, but dressed simply like a good soldier.

  • A certain Colmero, who was both a good sailor and a good soldier.

  • Though the number of courageous soldiers enumerated in a former chapter may have been considerable, yet I myself was not one of the least among them, and I had always the reputation of being a good soldier.

  • During the mobilizing and first months of the war, both in quarters and at the front, however, his conduct had been that of a good soldier.

  • He was a good soldier, passed through several clashes, and was promoted to Unteroffizier.

  • Had been a good soldier in service before the war.

  • He was a good soldier, but a dull companion.

  • Camille Dujardin was always a man of honor, and a good soldier.

  • He is a good soldier; perhaps he is not all to blame: or perhaps passion has betrayed him into a sin that his conscience and honor disapprove: if so, he must not die.

  • He was an honourable gentleman—a kind-hearted man; and he had once been a good soldier.

  • He was esteemed a good soldier; and I believe that Macnaghten found him a more pliant colleague than the “alarmist” whom he had supplanted.

  • I need not add anything more with respect to Governor Foraker, who, I believe, ought to be elected, not only because he has been a good soldier, but because he has been a good governor.

  • He was a good soldier, and, of those who entered the army from civil life, was among the most distinguished.

  • No good soldier in his command feared to approach him to demand justice, and everyone received it if in his power to grant it.

  • If it be a fact that General Brown did give these troops directions to leave, it was a most outrageous breach of everything a good soldier ought to have done.

  • Of course, like a good soldier, I shut up.

  • We are not going to break up a good soldier if it can be helped.

  • They had taken him from his parents, and he could no longer be a soldier--not a good soldier at any rate.

  • He was a good soldier, and he taught me the art and practice of war.

  • And he had been a good soldier as he had been a good son, because of his docility and his strength.

  • Still, I think I can trust you to be a good soldier.

  • A good soldier," Kathie whispered, as his arms were round her neck.

  • She meant to be a good soldier, even if it did prove difficult in the early marches.

  • All seemed to think it was impossible to have on too many or too heavy clothes, or to have too many conveniences, and each had an idea that to be a good soldier he must be provided against every possible emergency.

  • After all, you must learn to endure hardness as a good soldier.

  • At Fredericksburg a good soldier, now a farmer in Chesterfield County, Virginia, was desperately wounded and lay on the field all night.

  • The squadron of Pan Koshyts, a good soldier, was at the edge.

  • I do not deny that Charnyetski is a good soldier; but when he begins to twist his beard and look with his wildcat glance, it seems to an officer of the lightest squadron that he is a dragoon.

  • Pan Mosinski took his place at the northeastern bastion; he was a good soldier, the man whose little child had survived in a miraculous manner, though a bomb fell near its cradle.


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