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Example sentences for "our soldiers"

  • Our friends lingered about the grounds for some hours, enjoying the cool shade and examining the old buildings, the principal one of which was originally a fine structure, but it had been burned the year before by our soldiers.

  • Our soldiers fought in no holiday contest, not merely to test the manly qualities of the men of the north and the south, not for power or plunder, or wealth or title.

  • Why not complete the work so gloriously done by our soldiers in securing union and liberty to all men without distinction of color, leaving to the states, as before, the question of suffrage.

  • These always withdrew on the approach of any considerable number of our soldiers.

  • Our soldiers were no sooner inside the lines than the two armies began to fraternize.

  • The safety of our armies, and a proper regard for the lives of our soldiers, require that we apply to our inexorable foes the severe rules of war.

  • Some of our soldiers began to desert; citizens were fitting out trains of wagons and packmules to go to the mines.

  • They give us no assistance or information, and are loudest in their complaints at the smallest excesses of our soldiers.

  • The Sections lost courage with the apprehension of seeing their retreat cut off, and evacuated the post at the sight of our soldiers, forgetting the honour of the French name which they had to support.

  • How much useless glory did not our soldiers gain in these conflicts!

  • Our soldiers have a tendency to make pets of their prisoners, to cherish them as curiosities and souvenirs.

  • Our soldiers in the field are not depressed.

  • The six remaining young women, whose names I have totally forgotten, were given to some other of our soldiers.

  • Upon this we descended the 114 steps, which very much distressed many of our soldiers, who were suffering from swellings in their groins.

  • How all the gold presented by Motecusuma, and collected from the different townships, was divided; and what happened to one of our soldiers on the occasion.

  • We returned heartfelt thanks to the Almighty, and father Olmedo, assisted by the priest Juan Diaz, and many of our soldiers, celebrated high mass.

  • It has become a custom to fix crosses over the graves of our soldiers, most of them rudely and hastily shaped, but crosses still.

  • Even war has its bright side, and surely one of the brightest spots on the bright side of war has been the spontaneous offering of kindly hearts at home to our soldiers abroad.

  • My purpose will be answered if I convince my readers that, instead of religion impairing the courage of our soldiers, it is increased and intensified thereby.

  • Once more our attention is directed to the doings of our soldiers in Egypt.

  • Our Soldiers; Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Queen Victoria's Reign, by W.

  • Such an enterprise was as discreditable to our councillors as it proved to be disastrous to our soldiers.

  • Knitting and Sewing, and Writing Letters to "Our Soldiers.

  • Yesterday, one of them concealed himself in the dense foliage of a tree-branch, and picked off several of our soldiers.

  • The negroes were uniformly friends to our soldiers.

  • Just then one of our soldiers, whose home was in that county, passed by the door-step, on his way to the well for a canteen of water.

  • One of our soldiers, named Tarifa, ventured across the river with his horse in a canoe, was upset, and both were most likely drowned, for no traces could be found of either.

  • The whole of this conspiracy was discovered to Cortes by one of our soldiers a couple of days after his return to Tezcuco, and he had thus sufficient time to adopt active measures for suppressing it before it spread further.

  • Our soldiers must be coming in," he thought.

  • Somethin' wrong somewhar--our soldiers didn't come this way, ye kin reckon on thet.

  • Our soldiers must be over there," he said to the Spaniards.

  • Or perhaps you had better remain here while I go scouting around and see if I can find some of our soldiers, or the ambulance corps.

  • If our soldiers went to Cuba, or marched from Siboney to Santiago, without the equipment required for the observance of these precautions, it was not the result of necessary ignorance on the part of their superiors.

  • One of our soldiers drew a sketch of them.

  • One division of our soldiers rolled up four Russian divisions here and put them in retreat for the frontier.

  • As soon as it came dark, one of our soldiers heard a Frenchman calling across to him in German.

  • Those farmlands which Lieutenant Herrmann tells me you saw, coming up from Lille to Brussels, were planted by German soldiers and in the spring they will be harvested by our soldiers.

  • This feeling of obedience would render almost useless any attempt to employ the Kaffirs as our soldiers, a plan that appears now to have some supporters in England.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our soldiers" 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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