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Example sentences for "military life"

  • We have shown that the course of education practised in France was so directed, as to turn the thoughts and hopes of the youth to a military life, and prepare them to obey the call of the conscription.

  • To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.

  • The spirit and traditions of military life.

  • That glorious day of graduation marked a new epoch in my military life.

  • OF all privileges or sources of pleasure which tend to remove the monotony of military life, there are none to which the stripling soldier looks forward with more delight than furlough.

  • Surely there is a close parallel between this experience and that of the journeyman moving from the familiar soil of civilianism to the terra incognita of military life.

  • His training in military ideals starts at this point, and for the main part is carried forward subtly, by transfer of this same feeling to all other objects associated with his military life.

  • For this reason mainly, military life is far more exacting than civil life.

  • Finally, counseling, like all else in military life, has a combat purpose.

  • The Adventures of 'Dido' Plum," by Joseph Parks, is a pleasing story of military life by one who is himself a soldier.

  • Jimmy's Little Girl," by Joseph Parks, is a vivid transcript of military life by a military author.

  • Another delightful prose contribution is "Back to Blighty," by Joseph Parks, a vivid vignette of one phase of military life.

  • In two wars in North America Negro soldiers had followed the fortunes of military life, and won the applause of white patriots on two continents.

  • His joyous, boisterous songs on the march and in the camp; his victorious shout in battle, and his merry laughter in camp proclaimed him the insoluble enigma of military life.

  • We have seen, too, that at all times, but most especially under the conditions of ancient warfare, military life is very unfavourable to the amiable, and very favourable to the heroic virtues.

  • The citizen, passing continually from political to military life, exhibited to perfection the moral effects of both.

  • A somewhat less rapid but in the end not less complete decadence had taken place in military life.

  • General Lee's plantation, on Arlington Heights, and the surrounding country, was thoroughly trodden by loyal feet, as men and horses were acquiring the form and power of military life.

  • In order to give the cadets a taste of as many varieties of military life as possible, and to show them that they could not always expect summer weather and sunny skies, Major Webster decided to have a winter practice march.

  • I don't know, except that I'm fond of a military life.

  • Fortunately the remainder of the week was devoted to the more quieter forms of military life, the cadets spending considerable time in studying, drilling and reciting.

  • Plenty of time was allowed for study and recitation, and there was much attention given to military life.

  • A few recruits are joining the Regiment, not exactly a pleasant season of the year in which to be broken into the routine of military life, yet the proper officers take them in charge and begin the breaking-in process.

  • For a number of days there followed a regular exchange of duties between camp and picket, the latter being considered preferable, as a rule, having so much less of drill and the fretful features of military life.

  • The atmosphere of Washington seemed to be charged with terror, caused by the assassination of Lincoln, the wounding of Seward and the threats against all who were conspicuous in political or military life in the Union cause.

  • Hedges, Willard Slocum, Joseph Newman, Patrick Hull and others, who afterwards became distinguished in civil or military life.

  • Transported, in the depth of winter, from the soft retirement of Campania to the foot of Mount Caucasus, he sunk under the unaccustomed hardships of a military life.

  • The variety of climates, and the hardships of a military life, would soon oppress a feeble constitution, which subsists only by the most tender management.

  • He had had a strong desire to engage in a military life.

  • The officers themselves, many of them, must learn what a military life is, and how to do its work.

  • This may sound like exaggeration to the young reader who has no knowledge of the ways of military life, but let me assure him that it is nothing of the kind.

  • When it came to drilling and performing the evolutions necessary to military life it was evident that the regulars were greatly the superiors, but the youths naturally concluded that it was simply a question of experience.

  • While Jack and Harry are waiting impatiently for the order that will give them a taste of military life, we will leave them for a while and go down the Mississippi river to the great city of St. Louis.

  • They were learning the lesson of military life, that the soldier must obey his officer and each officer must obey the word of his own superior, no matter what it may be.

  • John Andre, a British officer, was clerk in a mercantile house in London; being anxious for a military life, he obtained a commission as ensign in the regiment commanded by Sir Henry Clinton, then about to embark for America.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "military life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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