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How to use soldiery in a sentence

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Unwisely, they accompanied their agitation among the soldiery with incitements to mutiny.
In those days, good middle-class Prussians washed their hands of the Prussian soldiery.
The unsuccessful campaign ended disastrously with the death of five-sixths of the colonial soldiery.
They show how puny the supposed threat can seem, how feeble strutting columns of third world soldiery can abruptly become.
In his writing about the soldiers of Athens, Pressfield salutes citizen soldiery.
Both Feudal Japan and Ancient Sparta are renowned for their outstanding soldiery.
The local soldiery accompanied Qutubuddin Aibek when he went to Lahore in 1206 to become the first independent Sultan of North India.
Beyond the river was a solid wall of soldiery, completely blockading the ford.
Sure, there is patriotism and a noble notion of never disrespecting your side's soldiery.
He has not properly distinguished between the view of rebel leaders and those of the soldiery.
My master and the Prince accompanied by K'ang Yu-wei and a small garrison of quickly degenerating soldiery fled eastward toward Ch'I-chou.
In dread of the Roman soldiery, they returned to the hiding place behind barred doors.
Yet nowadays the army is continually being downsized, deprived of funding and oriented towards internationalism and professional soldiery.
This enabled them to keep their distance while they fought, and avoid the risk of being grappled by the larger Spanish ships with their massed ranks of soldiery.
Now the morning meal was being prepared, the cub once again passed among the waking soldiery passing out bowls of food with deferential ducks of his head.
The African Hausa of Zaria and most Sudanic regimes included slaves in all ranks of the soldiery and command.
We do not really know if the Kosovars have an effective soldiery now, but there is a risk that the Kosovar ground troops could get an upper hand.
The buildings, homes, and people in the city suffered terribly, but little damage was done to the British earthworks or soldiery.
Those near the gate, however, hooted at and taunted the soldiery, who fired a volley over their heads.
Now they could see the point of having a uniformed driver to conduct them, for he would bear the brunt of such encounters with the soldiery.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He, on this, conceiving himself to be secure of the attachment of his soldiery, gave orders for advancing headquarters to Essonne.
Dervish spears were thrown into and over the staunch and unyielding Soudanese and fellaheen soldiery.
He contrasted the conduct of the soldiery with that of Tecumseh and his Indians.
Let your soldiery patrol the streets and search every house from top to bottom.
Is it not permitted that I speak with the captain of the soldiery who escort me?
He trotted and cantered all the afternoon northeastward among low hills, passing many untroubled farm-yards, but little soldiery.
He was toasted among the soldiery, and elsewhere also, under the soubriquet of Corporal Violet.
Catharina, commandant of her soldiery, and has his arms flying at her sprit, beside Sta.
This worthy cavalier discountenanced all idleness, rioting, chambering, and wantonness among his soldiery.
The Spaniards give place to none in the reputation of soldiery.
The soldiery were maddened and tantalized by the tactics of Alva.
The brutal soldiery of narvaez had taught them to hate the Spaniards.
He knew that the sceptre was in the gift of the batavian soldiery.
For this he was upbraided in the Senate by Fabius Maximus, and called the corrupter of the Roman soldiery.
In spite of suggestions from his soldiery, Pizarro chose the hard way.
He was mobbed by the infuriated soldiery, who closed round but did not kill him, for he fought his way to shelter, flying for the life.
There was, then, considerable discontent among the British soldiery.
I knew too well the ruffian natures of the soldiery to hazard such a risk.
Many of them, the soldiery especially, have no other object of worship.
Like the French soldiery, Elfride was not brave when on the defensive.
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