It is nothing to trouble you, because your soldiering is done, John; and greatly done.
But no man was ever more instinctively a soldier, and to soldieringhe had gone by instinct as a boy.
If there be war, Jim Pigeon may go a-soldiering and get shot as full of holes as a colander, and I'll do my duty by staying at home and looking after his patients.
But the immediate point is, since you can't go a-soldiering with your old uncle, what shall we do with you?
There was old Marshal Grunberg, with whom I did twenty-six months' soldiering in Bohemia.
The incident is historically true, and may serve to show what sort of men they were who had learned their soldiering under Cromwell.
True,' broke in a third, 'Napoleon has changed the whole world, and made soldiering the only trade worth following.
All the wild pleasures of soldiering rose once more to my mind, and I thought over old comrades who doubtless were now earning the high rewards of their bravery in the great career of glory.
Nothing could be less like soldiering than the life I led; and were it not for the clanking sabre I wore at my side, and the jingling spurs that decorated my heels, I might have fancied myself a notary's clerk.
These habits not only stripped soldiering of all its chivalry, but robbed freedom itself of all its nobility.
But when Tim joined his regiment soldiering had taken many new turns.
Altogether, it was the "softest" piece of soldiering that fell to my lot during all my service.
The executive were still sailors, heart and soul, and had no hankering after soldiering and drill ashore.
A big book might be written on the services of British naval brigades, so that we cannot hope to do more than glance at a very few instances of their work in "soldiering on shore".
Still, it was a resolute band, and might have done very well, only it rained a good deal, which made soldiering disagreeable and hard.
Neither in soldiering nor in sport, from man or from beast, have I ever suffered so much as a scratch.
We can't be all officers, and I feel that all I ever learnt about soldieringwould come back to me in a week.
Bob was one of those boys who throw their hearts into everything they take in hand, and although soldiering as a profession was repugnant to him, he made such progress in the O.
No, I haven't altered my mind about war, or about soldiering at all; but I had to come.
He was glad enough to go soldiering again; and nothing would have pleased him better than a war.
We all do considerable soldiering in our lives unconsciously; and if it comes hard to obey our captains here, I am not sure that we should always find it so easy out on the field.
As Mr. Meredith said a few moments ago, there is a good deal of soldiering in life which must be all voluntary.
I have done a good deal of holiday soldiering in my life, but this is to be sober earnest.
It was Stephen who, by virtue of his amateur soldiering experience, had to take the lead.
I used to be rather a nailer at that sort of thing, when I played at soldiering a few years ago.
So on the banks of Old Potomac began the duties of soldiering in a region that had already echoed to battle's din.
I don't think soldiering brings much worldly wisdom in its train.
Why, I've been soldiering in South Africa for over two years.
Freedom to earn their own wages, and to stroll about the fortifications on Sundays, were not to be measured against the romance of soldiering and the hope of battle.
Others, disdaining the toy-soldiering of their friends, seized the chance to join the regular army, and fought in it throughout the war, or until their deaths.
Works: Fenian Raid on Fort Erie; Modern Cavalry; History of Cavalry; Soldiering in Canada; Struggle for Imperial Unity.
Denison, The Fenian Raid on Fort Erie and Soldieringin Canada.
Denison, Reminiscences of the Rebellion of 1869 andSoldiering in Canada.
He it was who had discovered Jem Agar's talent for this rough, peculiar soldiering of the frontier.
There were the makings of a very hard man in James Edward Makerstone Agar, and seven years of the grimmest soldiering of modern days had done nothing to soften him.
Looking back after years of soldiering and disillusion, the first months of the War no doubt seem brighter than they really were.
With a few exceptions, the feeling of duty was a far stronger motive to their soldiering than any love of adventure.
It is clear that this particular phase of soldiering has in itself no place in the annals of the Great War.
It is an asset beyond price in soldiering to have all ranks welded together by community of feeling and opinion.
We set ourselves to combat these risks, and to give the men the food and recreation without which soldiering becomes a burden, and discipline degenerates to servitude.
I was not a good commander--not that I was deficient in courage or endurance; but soldiering must be studied just like other things.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soldiering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dodging; malingering; truancy
