You that's a sodger will think me but a silly auld wife; but I fed him, and relieved him, and keepit him hidden till the pursuit was ower.
What are yer a starin' at--ain't yer never seed a sodger before?
The sodger from the wars returns, The sailor frae the main; But I hae parted frae my love, Never to meet again, My dear; Never to meet again V.
Thy smiles are sae like my blythe sodger laddie, Thou's ay the dearer and dearer to me!
The London court set light by me-- I set as light by them; And I wilt send the sodger lad To shaw that court the same.
Full soon I grew sick of my sanctified sot, The regiment at large for a husband I got; From the gilded spontoon to the fife I was ready, I asked no more but a sodger laddie.
The neist cam in a sodger youth, And spak wi' modest grace, And he wad gae to London town, If sae their pleasure was.
For the auld gudeman o' London court She didna care a pin; But she wad send the sodger youth To greet his eldest son.
Thy smiles are sae like my blythe sodger laddie, Thou's aye the dearer, and dearer to me!
The first of my loves was a swaggering blade, To rattle the thundering drum was his trade; His leg was so tight, and his cheek was so ruddy, Transported I was with my sodger laddie.
If thou a noble sodger art, That passest by this grave, man; There moulders here a gallant heart, For Matthew was a brave man.
I'm gaun to the hillside, thou sodger gentleman, To shift my sheep their lair.
A braw sodger he'll mak'," said the other with a snicker.
I kent the sodger bluid o' the Tamson wid mak' a man o' him.
Full soon I grew sick of my sanctified sot, The regiment at large for a husband I got; From the gilded spontoon to the fife I was ready, I asked no more but a sodger laddie.
The first of my loves was a swaggering blade, To rattle the thundering drum was his trade; His leg was so tight and his cheek was so ruddy, Transported was I with my sodger laddie.
True again; and I am as tough a sodger, and may be I mought say, as old a sodger as yourself.
So, as a sodger has more of these ups and downs than other folks, there's the reason his heart is tenderer towards a comrade than other people's.
He was a remarkable saucy fellow and got nothing but ill-will from the prisoners--though, I make no doubt, the man is a tolerable sodger on sarvice.
A gang of raw lads might be easily imposed upon, but it wouldn't do if there's an old sodger amongst them; he mought ax some hard questions.
A sodger ought to snatch his rest when he can get it.
Suppose I was to say you was, at this self-same identical time, a sodger of the king's?
Captain Peter's old-sodger tricks, letting down bars and leading the young geldings into mischief?
It was maybe twa o'clock when the sodger that had been in Lag's room cam' doon into the kitchen.
Nae doot, when ye were a sodger there, ye had a sweetheart.
I looked at the sodger oot of the corner of my e'e.
By and by the sodger that had brocht me took courage and knocked at the door.
Full soon I grew sick of my sanctified sot, The regiment at large for a husband I got; From the gilded spontoon to the fife I was ready, I asked no more but a sodger laddie.
The first of my loves was a swaggering blade, To rattle the thundering drum was his trade; His leg was so tight and his cheek was so ruddy, Transported was I with my sodger laddie.
Then in a more natural tone of voice he said, "It's no' worth the while o' an auld sodger to kick a man like me.
But the peace it reduced me to beg in despair, Till I met my old boy at a Cunningham fair; His rags regimental they flutter'd so gaudy, My heart it rejoiced at a sodger laddie.
I'll hae to become a sodger in this heathen land, or soom hame, whilk is a thing I am no capable o'.
But when I gaed into the room I fand it filled wi' muckle sodger folk, drinking and sweering like deevils.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sodger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
