A detailed soldier in each camp of a thousand people was the best that could be done and his duties were so onerous that he ended by doing nothing.

These particular soldiers were most unhappy looking, all except the half dozen Turcos among the Frenchmen.

This poor soldier was the first victim of the coup d'état.

But the British soldier is a difficult person to impress or depress, even by immense shells filled with a high explosive, which detonate with terrific violence and form craters large enough to act as graves for five horses.

Had the Roman soldiers been free thinkers, Drusus, the son of Tiberius, had not been so fortunate as to quell a desperate mutiny among the legions of Pannonia, who utterly refused to obey his commands; but an eclipse, which critically intervened, broke their refractory spirits to such a degree, that Drusus, who managed their panic fear with great dexterity and address, did what he liked with them.

Soldiers, like missionaries, must be fanatics.

The soldiers, hearing from one of the Duchess of Bedford's creatures whose chicanery had been the object of his scorn, that Warner was a wizard, had desired that his services should be utilised.

Three Pharisees accompanied him when he went down into a room where the soldiers of the Temple (some only of whom were Jews, and the rest of various nations) were assembled.

As an individual the average soldier is a sneak, a shirk, a failure, a coward.

No soldier is a loyal soldier who is a knocker or a grumbler or a shirker.

"Workers: Never forget that the soldiers-who are acting as the torturers or our Belgian workmen are themselves German workers!

The British soldier in France and Flanders is not a self-supporting body.

When somebody thereupon as a compliment voted that he be given a guard, as if he had none, he saw through the man's flattery and answered: "The soldiers are not mine but the public's."

Any officer who, after having discovered that a soldier in his command is a deserter from the military or naval service or from the Marine Corps, retains such deserter in his command without informing superior authority or the commander of the organization to which the deserter belongs, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

These soldiers were men of various European nationalities belonging to that Roman Catholic party which was determined to maintain intact the temporal rule of the Pope as against the wishes of the vast majority of Italians, themselves Roman Catholics, who desired to substitute for that rule the constitutional sovereignty of King Victor Emmanuel.

His soldiers were probably better trained than the Duke's and combined with long service an abundance of enthusiasm for their old general, now restored to his imperial throne and confident of victory.

" Marc Dufraisse turned towards the Gendarmes Mobiles, and cried out to them, "Soldiers, your very presence here is an act of treason.

The most I have seen was plundering the towns for provisions, drinking up their beer, and turning our horses into their fields, or stacks of corn; and sometimes the soldiers would be a little rude with the wenches; but alas!

The gold miner, the transcontinental railway, and the soldier have been the pioneers of civilization.

From the days of William the Conqueror to our own, the great soldier has been, very commonly, a famous statesman also, but I do not now remember, in English or American history, a single capitalist who has earned eminence for comprehensive statesmanship.

A soldier is but a mortal man.

Why, in England the common soldier is the dirt under the feet of women like you.

"What a soldier, what a Roman, was thy father, my young bride!

The constable, the soldier, the daring counsellor at the helm, are often necessities of the time.

Their soldiers were good fighters, especially when well led.