The KhAirijites were mostly drawn from the Bedouin soldiery who settled in Baa¹Lra and KAºfa after the Persian wars.
Nothing short of killing every man of that magnificent soldierycould have stopped their onslaught.
It seems that at the fateful hour they happened to have an extra force on the Col, a company sent specially from Sief to relieve the soldiery in the trenches; hence the large number of victims.
The three Ornanos had kept their eyes constantly upon him, at first afraid to assail the terrible man; but at length, spurred on by revenge, they pressed in upon him, some Genoese soldiery at their back.
Throughout, the enemy was invisible even to the best field glasses, and this more than anything filled the soldiery with despair of coming to hand-grips--the one kind of battle for which they had been taught to prepare.
At last, however, the Boer guns were gained; the Devons too came pouring up the hill, and a torrent of British soldiery swept exultant upon the last Boer remnants.
Silence came upon the victorious soldiery as they turned their gaze upon these sad victims of the conflict, who had offered up the last and greatest sacrifice that man can make.
Nothing was to be heard but the swish, swish, in measured cadence of the soldiery as they brushed through the low bush.
His object was the soldiery and settlement, to whom he could utter truths in the English tongue.
Immediately after the murder of their officers, the rebel soldiery set out for Delhi, about 35 m.
Prussian aid was sought, and promptly given, troops mobilizing on the northern frontier, the Saxon soldiery being despatched to surround Leipzic.
Officers with loaded revolvers sat inside each conveyance, a troop of mounted soldiery forming the van and rear of the cavalcade.
But, for heaven's sake, can't moresoldiery be sent out against them?
It was a collision of trained mercenary troops with the citizen soldiery of Rome.
The Spanish revolution served as the occasion for a similar rebellion of the soldiery of Naples.
None of the vassals or soldiery ventured to return to the chamber they had been told to quit some time before, and only Karl von Mosbach and old Seckendorf remained with their lord.
The aggregate soldiery of Europe is upwards of five millions of men,--just eleven times the largest calculation of the Roman legions.
The greedy soldiery looked from one to the other, and shouted with delight, as each new advance was made.
He terrified the boldest with his imperturbable stillness; he summoned the seditious soldiery to wait on him at his camp.
The soldiery told numberless tales of his eccentricity--laughed at, mimicked, and adored him.
All Rodil's front and flank marches and countermarches served but to send a vast number of his men into hospital, and to immortalize his name in that province by the devastations and incendiarism that the soldiery committed.
I envy him such friends; but I will have an army of mine own, to show mine English soldiery how a Plantagenet battles for his crown.
It will not suit thy modesty and sex to loiter amongst the pages and soldiery in the yard.
Between, the soldiery ranged themselves as they pleased.
Cattle were in demand, especially in Mexico, so ravaged by lawless soldiery that there was nothing left to steal.
The soldiery had been into the area, where there were only the glass windows between, and a broken pane would form an easy way for passage of threats.
In the letter which he circulated, he was careful to make no mention of the king, but called on the people to defend their rights against the tyranny of an insolent soldiery and a pretended parliament.
The Sikh ranks had been mainly recruited from our disbanded Sepoy soldiery and deserters.
Infantry, cavalry, and artillery were now within the works, which were no longer tenable, and the Khalsa soldiery fled precipitately to the bridge, pursued with a carnage similar to that at Aliwal.
From that moment the soldiery and people of the kingdom were resolved to take the first opportunity of reasserting the independence of their country, and taking vengeance upon those whom they considered its oppressors.
During the 24th, terrible battle raged in the streets of Paris, but the troops and civic soldiery stormed the barricades and conquered.
I ask not that question for the renowned commander-in-chief, who is himself an Irishman, but for the hardy soldiery of Ireland, who fought the battle for him.
The party of the president (the Buonapartists) gradually and steadily gained over all the others; the soldiery and the peasantry were Napoleonist; the church saw this, and threw its weight into the presidential scale.
On the 18th they were attacked and desperately wounded; it was at first supposed from a sudden impulse on the part of the soldiery of Moolraj, but it was afterwards known to be the result of treachery.
There were also many desertions of Sepoy soldiers to Shere Singh, but more especially of Sikh soldieryunder Lord Gough's command.
At Six Miles Bridge the soldiery were attacked while protecting voters in the free exercise of their franchise.
Far different were the feelings created in the minds of the Sikh soldiery and people; they were exasperated, and determined to hazard all upon a single throw.
They beheld the uniformed soldiery pile out of the cars and heard them cheer.
Confused sounds of marching and countermarching soldiery reached her ears; but from a distance.
I encouraged my soldiery to bravely defend themselves, that we should soon have help, and that we should be able to keep the ground, if no more.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soldiery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: army; array; forces; host; military; regular; soldiery; troops
