From Roman days down to the Franco-Prussian war the place has seemed good and desirable from soldiers and conquerors, and has had to pay penalty for its splendid position on the Aisne.
The government itself adopted the principle of forced levies, or impressment, of vagabonds and bad characters, but these men proved to be poor soldiers and deserted frequently.
They were much favored by the kings, who needed well-equipped soldiersfor their wars.
The questions of lodging the soldiers and of procuring additional funds continued to provoke trouble.
Service in Spain came to be the most dreaded of all by the Roman troops, and several times Roman soldiers refused to go to the peninsula, or to fight when they got there, all of which encouraged the Spanish tribes to continue the revolt.
The Catalans found that French officials and French soldiers committed the same abuses as those which they had objected to in the case of Castile.
Prior to this time the clergy had provided almost the only representatives to win fame in belles lettres; now, they were joined and rivalled, even outdone, by laymen, both soldiers and civilians.
Hasdrubal followed a policy of conciliation and peace, encouraging his soldiers to marry Iberian women, and himself wedding a Spanish princess.
In furtherance of these aims they established a rigorous military system, putting garrisons in the cities, and insisting on tribute in both soldiers and money.
Murder, robbery, and outrages against women went unpunished; even the soldiers sent to protect the Moriscos were guilty of these abuses.
A ring of soldierskept the crowd back, all the crowd the narrow streets permitted.
The soldiers guarding her for Mastino thought the privilege bought, or that the Emperor had wrung it from Visconti.
The soldiers had dismounted, but the captain kept his seat.
Isotta d'Este steadied herself against the wall, and grasping Valentine's hand, followed Adrian toward the soldiers on guard.
They entered the courtyard in silence, the soldiers forming up close around her.
Complete liberty was allowed him; still the soldiers behind were rather guards than servants, and charged to see he did not leave the gates.
She could hear her father feasting the soldiers below, and thought of him restless and impatient for nightfall.
At his cry the soldiers flung themselves again into the saddle, and those who still sat their horses gathered up their reins.
A fresh detachment of soldiers had ridden up, and the man's thoughts and eyes were engaged in half a dozen places.
In one or two tents, thrown open to catch the breeze that stirred the chestnuts, sat the little handful of soldiers left to Mastino.
Visconti crossed the courtyard; the soldiers closed around him and his captive; Agnolo sprang forward, and drawing the little dagger he wore, hurled it after him.
Some of the best of the Southern soldiers came from the city of the Quakers.
The soldiers on the pier were all gentlemen of the county.
There is danger in both undertakings, for soldiers are quartered at the manse of Kossowince, and the villa which harbours the mandatar of an evening is near the well-garrisoned district town.
He forced a way through the people with his right arm, some falling back before the blazing torch in his left, and thus he got to the head of the crowd just as the body of soldiers galloped up the street, led by an officer, sword in hand.
The townsfolk will not harm us, and the few soldiers we shall get the better of.
Should he cause me to be summoned I shall pay no heed; should he despatch his soldiers to catch me, I shall defend myself.
There will be trouble," he said "if the soldiers come upon the excited villagers in the night.
It was found in those days how little it availed to send out soldiers with a hope of crushing the bandits in their mountains.
The village, which but lately had been the scene of so wild an uproar, lay still as death; a number of soldiers had settled round a watch fire outside the inn, a similar guard being stationed in front of the manor house.
It will be natural, then, to billet most of the soldiers upon her.
After all the unnatural efforts that have been made here to ape the farming of Norfolk and Suffolk, it is only playing at farming, as stupid and "loyal" parents used to set their children to play at soldiers during the last war.
They put the power into the hands of Pitt and his crew to torment the people; to keep the people down; to raise soldiers and to build barracks for this purpose.
She would see in them men who had becomesoldiers or sailors because they wished to live without that labour by which other men are content to get their bread.
It gave me inexpressible pleasure to perceive the gloom that seemed to hang over these barracks, which once swarmed with soldiers and their blithe companions, as a hive swarms with bees.
We got into free-quarter again at Lea; and there is nothing like free-quarter, as soldiers well know.
Hussey's resolute attitude in requiring that the rights of Catholic soldiers should be recognised.
Polemic and party spirit ran so high that some militia and soldiers attempted to throw the coffin into the river Suir; a disgraceful riot took place, and several lives were lost.
Riots raged in the streets owing to trade strikes; men were 'tarred and feathered' and let loose before the infuriated mob; soldiers were houghed and left bleeding on the pavement.
Corbet, describing his arrest in the first instance, says that he asked the soldiers by what authority they acted.
Tears himself suddenly away, and follows the soldiers of the guard.
To the soldiers of the guard who are thronging in.
It was not a punitive expedition, but rather one meant to let the natives see the stalwart soldiers of the United States and understand the futility of resisting them.
With characteristic energy he began the work of looking out for the soldiers who would soon be demobilized from the army and thrown upon their own resources.
As a result the Rough Riders, fighting through the tropical country in Cuba, were far more comfortable than the soldiers in regulation blue.
He personally conducted him around the camp, pointing out what fine, big men our soldiers were, and especially directing his attention to the machine guns.
Death amongst the Spanish soldiers had been very heavy from yellow fever and pernicious malaria and the course of the troop-ships which carried them back to Spain was marked by long lists of burials at sea.
When an official who had the Spanish methods in his blood {119} did not appear after three invitations he was carried into the commanding officer's presence by a squad of soldiers in his pajamas.
Colonel Scott very quietly explained that the soldiers had been sent as a guard of honor to escort the Rajah to the General.
If there be rising ground, encamp on its sunny side and in front of it; for thereby the soldiers are benefited, and the ground used to our advantage.
An enemy that is undetermined, now advancing and then retreating, whose soldiers have nought wherein to put their trust, should be alarmed, and put to flight.
Their people are tired of war; their troops are trained, but their leaders are despised; pay is small, and the soldiers lack the spirit of sacrifice, thus they are well governed but cannot be used.
An army that has halted long without moving; whose general and soldiers have grown careless, and neglect precautions, should be approached by stealth, and taken by surprise.
Skilful soldiers make defeat impossible, and further render the enemy incapable of victory.
If there be no alternative but death, the soldiers exert themselves to the utmost.
They scattered the enemy, and prevented him from concentrating; if his soldiers were assembled, they were without unity.
When strangers in a far country the soldiers are united and are proof against defeat.
In desperate places, soldiers lose the sense of fear.
Two weary, ragged Serbian soldiers were sitting huddled together waiting to be ordered forward to fight.
Verdun, sorely stricken, yet living, kept alive by the indomitable soul of the soldiers of France, whilst her wounds are daily treated and healed by the skill of her Generals.
He was placed against a barn door, the firing squad lined up, when from behind the hedge bordering a wood the women began to bombard the soldiers with eggs.
One of the soldiers passing through a bombarded village saw a little body lying in the mud, and although he believed the child to be dead, he stooped down and picked it up.
There are but few lonely soldiers now, since those who have no families to write to them receive letters and parcels from the godmothers who have adopted them.
A grenade thrown by one of the French soldiers struck the parapet and rebounded amongst the men.
The soldiers billeted in the house read the inscription, which met with their approval, and so far each regiment in passing had cleaned out the little dwelling and left it in perfect order.
Outside the prison-camp of Cannantre stood a circle of French soldiers learning the bugle calls for the French Army.
This city, the native place of the emperors Trajan and Adrian, and the poet Silius Italicus, was founded by Publius Scipio in the second Punic war, who placed here the soldiers incapacitated from the performance of military service.
There are also the procurators of the emperor, men of the equestrian rank, who distribute the pay to the soldiers for their maintenance.
It has been checked by the Romans, who accepted the supreme authority from the inhabitants and lodged soldiers in their houses.
Speaking of 600 soldiers devoted in this manner to a Gaulish prince, named Adcantuannus, Cæsar (l.
Even now it appears that we gain more by the customs they pay, than we could raise by tribute, after deducting the wages of the soldiers necessary for guarding the island and exacting the taxes.
Bands of Norman soldiers rushed in and drove all before them.
There were also other wives and mothers, who suffered as intensely as the countess, for among the knights and soldiers that accompanied him on his perilous undertaking, many had families at home, who looked wistfully for their return.
The soldiers also once and again inquired of him, "And we, what are we to do?
There was an officer in a Roman legion, at some period of the Republic, who bore the name either of Atrius Umber or Umbrius Ater: and this man being ordered on some expedition, the soldiers refused to follow him.
Now, is there nobody left that can help; her horse is dead--the soldiers are dead.
All soldiers knew her, so that she had information of everything that stirred in camps.
I have a conjecture of my own; but her brother soldiers were lost in sorrow and confusion, and could never arrive even at a conjecture.
But, having recently had a little too much of the public attention, she felt nervous on remarking two soldiers eyeing the handsome horse and the handsome rider, with an attention that seemed too solemn for mere aesthetics.
They meet the soldiers of the Allies, and decide to cast their lot with them.
The queen-mother and the young princes and princesses were left undisturbed in their apartments, but into every other house in the city, the rude soldiers rushed, searching for the poor babies.
The advance guard was made up of the biggest and bravest, while the veterans, and the young soldiers who lacked experience, brought up the rear.
Here they are: I charged my cavalry through our retreating soldiersat Pontorson.
The soldiers would have surrendered the nation twenty times had they not feared the guillotine awaiting them.
Meat is very scarce, and it must be kept for the soldiers and the sick.
The first impostor that comes along denounces me; they believe anonymous letters from soldiers I punished for cowardice; they accuse me, threaten me, degrade me from my rank, while damned little rapscallions are promoted over my head.
Danton recalled you to Paris to command the soldiers in the counter-revolution.
The confusion among soldiers and officers has up to the present concealed a group of Swiss Guards some distance away, who bring in a woman prisoner.
Assured that a fight was imminent, the soldiers receded to higher ground, a short distance back, where they hurriedly made preparations for defence.
On learning that Nabakéltĭ had been killed, and deeming the soldiers wholly to blame, a small party of Apache attacked the troopers while retreating to the higher ground.
Six of the soldiers were killed, the mules stampeded, and the provisions burned, all within a short space of time.
Early in the morning the soldiers reached the Cibicu at a point about two miles above Nabakéltĭ’s camp, whence a detachment was despatched to arrest the medicine-man and bring him to the place where headquarters were being established.
His friends manage to secure him indulgences by offering bribes, but the soldiers are exorbitant and irritating in the extreme [78:1].
We had fifty rebel officers and soldiers as prisoners.
Think of the many good men and soldiers that lost their health in rebel prisons.
Tours has a garrison of five regiments, and the little red-legged soldiers light up the town.
The archiepiscopal gardens look down at one end over a sort of esplanade or suburban avenue lying on a lower level on which they open, and where several detachments of soldiers (Bourges is full of soldiers) had just been drawn up.
And they had just set fire to the house and were dancing their wild dance around it, when the soldiers arrived and dispersed the party and put out the fire.
The soldiers sent out by the king, had no great difficulty in finding Agnes's father and mother, of whom they demanded if they knew any thing of such a young princess as they described.
She ran into the palace, the door of which had been left open by the porter when he followed the soldiers and prisoners to the throne-room, and bounded up the stairs to look for her father and mother.
Their two thrones stood upon a high dais at one end, and on the floor at the foot of the dais, the soldiers laid their helpless prisoners.
When the soldiers reached the palace, they were ordered to carry their prisoners at once into the presence of the king and queen, in the throne room.
Commission as mearly calculated to authorise punishment to the soldiers if necessary, I proceeded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soldiers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: force; rank; reinforcement; troop
