She saw that a soldier had taken her standard into the ditch.
Another witness says that a soldier wished to sing a magical song over the wound, to heal it, but she would not allow this to be done, and went back into the battle, hurt as she was.
Cousin Cæsar saw in the distance and recognized Steve Brindle, he was a soldier in the federal army.
Price in Missouri suited no privatesoldier better than Cæsar Simon.
And Cousin Cæsar was left alone, with no bosom friend save the friendship of one southern soldier for another.
As a sign that the soldier had won his lady-love, Filippa at last consented that he should return the handkerchief, crown her proudly with it on her cloud of thick hair, and waltz away with her triumphantly.
Then the Indian soldier leans more on his British officer.
He is naturally brave, and has the makings of a good soldier in him.
His drill done, the British soldier lies on his cot under the punkah of the barrack-room, thinks with regret of the cool land he has left and forgets the misery of the unemployed in the rain and frosts of England.
Besides being a soldier he is also a schoolmaster, having to set and correct examination papers for certificates of education.
But I had to reckon with the devotion of the native soldier for his British officer.
Then my servitor laid out for me the dull khaki uniform which in India, except on occasions of ceremony, replaces the gayer garb of the soldier in England.
With the easy philosophy of the soldier we three officers settled down rapidly in our new surroundings--new at least to my subaltern Creagh and me.
Indian Civil Service he is preferred to the soldier as a husband.
This companion, by name Ransom, resented the blow, and called Hawksworth a puppy, whereupon the soldier clubbed his musket and knocked the civilian down.
In 1839, when Don Carlos was driven out of the country by the patriot soldier Espartero, she endeavored to gain him over to her side, but failed.
A thoroughbred, thoroughly appointed soldier is nothing to a Kentucky rifleman," etc.
At length the soldier halted at a remote and ruined tower apparently intended to guard a Moorish aqueduct.
The soldier turned on him a look of high displeasure.
He observed that no one heeded their conversation, and that the soldier made his way through the various groups of idlers unnoticed, as if invisible.
The soldierpointed to a stone seat hewn along one side of the vault.
The soldiergasped out a reply from a pair of jaws which seemed to have rusted on their hinges.
Crossing the bridge, the soldier led the way by a narrow and steep path past a Moorish mill and aqueduct, and up the ravine which separates the domains of the Generalife from those of the Alhambra.
At the sound the soldiergave a great cry of despair; the coffer, which was half raised, fell back in its place and was locked once more.
They found the soldier seated on the enchanted strong-box, awaiting their arrival.
And although the tin soldier was piled so that his foot was pressed into Raggedy's face, she still wore her customary smile.
I dreamed the tin soldier put an icicle down my neck!
The tin soldier fell from the shelf three times and bent one of his tin legs, but he scrambled right back up again.
After all had hugged each other good night and had cuddled up for the night, the tin soldier asked, "Did you have a chance to see what the motto on your new candy heart was, Raggedy Ann?
The tin soldier and Uncle Clem both tried to coax Raggedy Ann into accepting their bed (they slept together), but Raggedy Ann would not hear of it.
Dutch doll who says "Mamma" when he is tipped backward and forward, "For we will have the brave tin soldier shoot the key out of the lock!
I fell off the table and lit upon the tinsoldier last night when we were playing.
When they were sound asleep, Raggedy Ann slipped quietly from her bed and awakened the tin soldier and Uncle Clem and the three tiptoed to the two beautiful new dolls.
The tin soldier jumped out of bed and ran over to Fido's basket, his tin feet clicking on the floor as he went.
The dolls all sat upon the floor around Raggedy Ann, the tin soldier with his arm over her shoulder.
Then the soldier dolly turned his head and solemnly winked at Raggedy Ann.
The soldier brought his halberd to a present-arms and said mockingly-- "I salute your gracious Highness.
If I had a beau, for a soldier who'd go, Do you think I'd say no?
They made the cave into a fair shrine, set up statues there, raised an altar to Eros the shepherd and gave to Pan the soldier a temple to dwell in instead of a pine.
This soldier had a hideous and wicked wife Cyno who, falling in love with Habrocomes, offered to kill her husband and marry him.
On the way to town, this gardener has a quarrel with a soldier and nearly kills him so the gardener and the ass have to go into hiding.
When the honestsoldier was unfortunate enough to deserve them, he accepted them with resignation.
Still my father was too good a soldier not to keep as constant a watch as before.
It was not long after this a soldier brought to Washington a dog that had been found wearing a collar with the name of General Howe engraved on it.
From Seventeen Hundred Fifty to Seventeen Hundred Fifty-nine, Washington was a soldier on the frontier, leaving Mount Vernon and all his business in charge of his brother John.
The advice of Scott the soldier was wiser and more opportune.
So great was the terror inspired by the British soldiers into the minds of our men, that he said, when a British soldier was brought as a prisoner to our camp, our soldiers viewed him at a distance as a superior kind of being.
The feelings of that high-minded, chivalrous soldier can hardly be imagined--his first impulse was to order Reed under the arrest, but was deterred for fear of the effect the example might have on the men.
The gentleman to which I so often refer, in my communications as the revolutionary soldier who has furnished me with information, is a near relative of mine, who knew Gen.
Be a soldier of fortune like us," says they; and he tossed his dusty hair from his eyes, and saw the glint of gold in baldricks.
At length she bethought herself of an honest fellow, always a loyal friend and soldier of her lord, of whom, in this distracting pass, she might make use.
If it fell, he would resume it; if it stayed, a soldier he would be.
Here the first additions and rebuildings had been his, the first decorations and beautifyings--tentative at the best, for he was always more a soldier than a connoisseur.
No man who fought at Bunker Hill remained so long a soldier of the United States.
A Sardinian soldier welcomed us to his liberal Majesty's dominions, and, as we told him that we were going on by the steamer, allowed us to go into the town without shewing our passports.
Another soldier met us, unencumbered with blouse or coat of any kind, his accoutrements well adjusted over his gray flannel shirt, and his rifle sloped carelessly back over his shoulder.
And the youngest soldier among us knew better than to give those rapid, furious volleys the interpretation of a formal military salute.
He raised himself on his elbow, And wistfully gazed around; Till he spied far off a soldier Threading the death-strewn ground.
We had just cleared the camping grounds, I well remember, when General Nelson rode leisurely down the line, his eye taking note with the quiet glance of the real soldier of every minutia of equipments and appearance generally.
So my life passed in fruitless wondering and bitter suspense; I never saw a soldier without thinking of Edward, and my dreams showed him to me wounded, ill, or dying.
So he was buried as a soldier should be buried, borne to the grave by his comrades, and mourned by the woman dearest to him.
Now and then, in the intervals, a low, quick crepitation reached us, an undertone that no soldier could fail to recognize as distant musketry.
The scene of it was the extreme right of the position, where Abiathar, one of the Chasidim, an able soldier but a most uncompromising zealot, was in chief command.
But is there one soldier in this army that has not lost wife, or child, or father, or brother by the hand of this evil man?
He could only regret that unfounded suspicions had kept away the great soldier who had done so much for his country and whom he would have had so much pleasure in welcoming.
You are a brave man, and would not take a soldier at unfair odds.
You have done well," said Judas, who knew what a sacrifice the fiery soldier had made.
A soldier gathered up the parchment in his arms, and tossed it in a heap on the fire.
An old soldier who had proved his valour on more than one battle-field was put forward as their spokesman.
The sun was just setting when a soldier presented himself, and, after saluting, said, "The general seeks you.
Once I was a soldier in your army, but I broke the law, and I fled lest I should be put to death.
A better captain to lead, a better soldier to strike with the sword, I never saw.
The prisoner fell over him, and in the confusion the soldier cut the cords that bound Benjamin's hands.
These men had all that goes to the making of the soldier except the arms, and this want, after all, is the easiest to be supplied.
Suddenly, without there having been even the slightest sign of a quarrel, the soldier was seen to plunge his sword into the side of his companion.
A sturdier soldier never wielded sword, but he saw that there are difficulties to which the sword alone can bring no solution.
In one place we were entirely stopped by a group that had gathered round a horse, of which a British soldierwas examining one of the knees.
This distinguished soldier had married Caroline Bonaparte, the youngest sister of Napoleon, by whom he was made King of Naples.
He was an old soldier and in full uniform, and he came to us from a battalion drawn out in array on one side the park.
He is a mere soldier of fortune, under great disadvantages.
Lavalette had served Napoleon both as soldier and diplomatist.
You ought to be, for you have been chosen to be a soldier in the glorious army of Jesus Christ.
In fact, I may say that my information comes from the best authority to be had in the matter--the soldier himself.
His soldier days had ended, and he returned now to enter upon a far different career.
Lincoln's famous wrestling match with the redoubtable Thompson, a soldier from Union county, who managed to throw him twice in succession, caused no diminution in the admiration and pride his men felt in their captain's muscle and prowess.
The soldier told him, and reminded him of the chains on the dead man's feet.
Nekhludoff took all these things to a wooden bench, on which a soldier with a book in his hand sat waiting for something, took the seat by his side, and began sorting the letters.
And the inspector or the convoy soldier accepts, because he has a salary of twice twenty copecks and a family, and he can't help accepting it.
The convoy soldier lifted the stockingless feet, in prison shoes, and put them into the trap.
The landlady had had her tea, and came in wiping her fat, perspiring neck with her handkerchief, and said that a soldier had brought a note from the halting station.
By the stove a soldier in a coarse shirt with a necktie and black trousers, and with one top-boot on, stood blowing the charcoal in a somovar, using the other boot as bellows.
When he saw Nekhludoff, the soldier left the somovar and helped him off with his waterproof; then went into the inner room.
The policeman, the porter, and the convoy soldier lifted the dying man and carried him to the trap, and put him on the seat.
At the bottom of a street, in front of a large house, a group of people had collected, and a convoy soldier stood by.
The ex-soldier seemed also to understand matters, but got mixed, being used to senseless soldiers' talk.
Nekhludoff passed this carriage and went up to a window of the third carriage, which a soldier pointed out to him.
But the soldier stood aside, examining the trodden-down heel of his boot, and was quite indifferent to the policeman's perplexity.
They had not made a hundred steps when they met a cart accompanied by a convoy soldier with a gun.
When they saw the convoy soldier and a gentleman, those who were nearest became silent, and followed them with looks of ill-will.
One convoy soldier pulled away the girl, who was screaming desperately, while another manacled the prisoner, who now submissively held out his hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soldier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
