But it was enough that Mrs. Lawrence knew Broussard well, and was in communication with him--a strange thing between an officer and the wife of a private soldier, even if the soldier be of a station unusual in the ranks.
The truth is, Mrs. Lawrence does not yet fully understand her position as a private soldier's wife.
She had seen her father give up a party of pleasure to walk behind the pine coffin of a private soldier, and her mother had robbed her greenhouse of its choicest blossoms to lay a wreath on a soldier's grave.
An officer visiting the wife of a private soldier is not a thing to be excused by a strict Colonel, and Colonel Fortescue was very strict, and had Argus eyes in the bargain.
I hate to have a Private Soldier in my army," she said; "they're so common.
I am told that Princess Ozma once had a private soldier, but she made him her Captain-General, which is good evidence that the private was unnecessary.
Once there had been a private soldier, besides the officers, but Ozma had made him a Captain-General and taken away his gun for fear it might accidentally hurt some one.
One of the Yankees, a poor divil of a private soldier, handed to me three twenty-five cents of Yankee money.
My father was once a private soldier in the Confederate army, and he often tells us interesting stories of the war.
It is impossible for me to tell you what has so suddenly changed my fortunes; it is sufficient that for the future I shall be, if I live, what you were--a private soldier in an army that needs a sword.
She regarded him with much surprise, with some slight sense of annoyance; she had bent far in tendering her influence at the French court to a private soldier, and his rejection of it seemed as ungracious as it was inexplicable.
It has not been my wish to wear the gilded trappings of office and command men, but rather to fight in the ranks, a private soldier.
I was again doing duty as a private soldier, having learned that my promotion to the position of corporal was only temporary.
I assume that the cost of maintaining a private soldieris covered by £36 a year, while his allowance of 4d.
If compulsory service were introduced into Great Britain, pay would become unnecessary for the private soldier; but he ought to be and would be given a daily allowance of pocket-money, which probably ought not to exceed fourpence.
Morris, who enlisted in 1864 as a private soldier, and was thereupon honorably discharged as a Lieutenant.
Thus situated and unprepared, on the first call for volunteers I enlisted as a private soldier in a Springfield company, and went with it to Camp Jackson, now Goodale Park, Columbus, Ohio.
Johnson, having been killed at Shiloh while fighting as a private soldier.
I had left my country a poor penniless boy--a private soldier in a miserable marching regiment.
I have no false pride, as many men of high lineage like my own have, and, in default of better company, will hob and nob with a ploughboy or a private soldier just as readily as with the first noble in the land.
Instead of availing myself of the parole that cleared me from obligation, I, in the darkest days of the war voluntarily enlisted as a private soldier.
I had made up my mind, while in the Old Capitol Prison, that when I should get free again the very first thing I should do would be to enlist as a private soldier in the Union Army.
Had I been a private soldier, I expect I should have been killed without ado, but they called upon me to surrender.
I am a private soldier, and I've lived with the Tommies for a long time, and I know what kind of chaps they are.
Discipline is discipline, and I am only a private soldier.
Says a private soldier of the Black Watch, who by this time had arrived upon the scene:--“A Russian gunner was holding his head together.
A glimpse of the life of a private soldier at this time is very graphically recounted by one of the 42nd.
A bag of shining leather, filled with pearls, fell into the hands of a private soldier; he carefully preserved the bag, but he threw away its contents, judging that whatever was of no use could not possibly be of any value.
The pusillanimity of the Greeks had introduced so complete a separation between the offices of king and of general, that a private soldier, who had deserved and obtained the purple, seldom or never appeared at the head of his armies.
As soon as the succors had arrived, he retired to his tent, assumed the dress and arms of a private soldier, and gave the signal of a battle.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "private soldier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
