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Example sentences for "old soldier"

  • A man must be an alien and an outlaw, an old soldier and a young man in the bargain, to take adventure easily.

  • An old soldier of Napoleon is certainly beyond suspicion.

  • Well do they say, an old soldier, an old innocent!

  • Nicholas Joany, of Genouillac, was an old soldier, who had seen much service, having been for some time quartermaster of the regiment of Orleans.

  • As for me, I am an old soldier, and will do my duty!

  • The force was placed under the orders of Captain Poul, an old soldier of fortune, who had distinguished himself in the German wars, and in the recent crusade against the Italian Vaudois.

  • An old soldier with a wooden leg, and a child, were walking together by the lake, and conversing seriously.

  • Good strategy, but I am an old soldier, Majesty.

  • Why should he, an old soldier, sweat at the thought of blood?

  • I am an old soldier, Woods, and while I feel that this question has two sides to it, my disposition to reverence and honour the king is still strong.

  • An old soldier would be disgraced to allow himself to be run down by mere vagabonds.

  • But it will be a hard matter to wheedle an old soldier out of his allegiance!

  • This, I will maintain, is a reproach both to your character, Colonel Howard, as an old soldier and to mine as a young one.

  • Why, your honor, that does seem rather an over-match for an old soldier to swallow; the random shot would sweep away so small a force.

  • It is a difficult thing to impose on an old soldier, my water-battery.

  • I am an old soldier, begad," he said, "and I learned in early life to make myself comfortable.

  • Thank ye, sir, an old soldier and a fond father thanks ye.

  • An old soldier can't be better employed than in teaching a young one the use of his sword," answered the major, gallantly.

  • He announced that to sit with two such noble and generous young fellows was the happiness and pride of an old soldier's existence; and having had a second glass of Curacoa, was so happy that he began to cry.

  • I will carry a wound like an old soldier.

  • The words on your arm prove it, and your military air stamps you as an old soldier of the Empire.

  • He had a little knapsack on his back, and the young woman did not doubt that he was an old soldier.

  • I would much rather he had really been an old soldier.

  • Every man and woman in the house was secured--the "Old Soldier" the first.

  • If I had been in my senses, I should have considered him, personally, as being rather a suspicious specimen of an old soldier.

  • I pledge you my word of honour, as an old soldier, in the course of my long experience in this sort of thing, I never saw such luck as yours--never!


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


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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