Perhaps if I had been myself a campaigner I should have been less awed by the spectacle; but having nothing with which to compare it, I judged this a host before which the scattered Border stockades and Nicholson's scanty militia would go down like stubble before fire.

But Jones is an old campaigner.

Being an old campaigner and a shrewd tactician, Major Doyle made two blankets into rolls, which he placed on either side of him, to "anchor" his body in position.

For at first Caesar was for taking from the possessors and giving to the veterans all of Italy (except what some old campaigner had received as a gift or bought from the government and was now holding), together with the bands of slaves and other wealth.

Frank, as an old campaigner, knew what was to be done.

He lacked the self-reliant dignity of an old campaigner, substituting for it self-assertiveness and flashy manners.

" Captain Baumgarten was an old campaigner.

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While a campaigner, I had learned to reduce packing to an exact science.

Is the yacht victualledwith fresh meat and green stuff, I mean?" "Wheww" "I will go back, borrow a lantern, and forage in the garden, like an old campaigner.

And, indeed, we have seen more of war in these few weeks than has fallen to the lot of many an old campaigner.

Demobilisation was nothing to himhe was too old a campaigner to let a little matter like that agitate his habitual reserve.

With that he took out his cigarette-case, and his match-box, lighted his cigarette, and calmly watched the smoke rising with all the coolness of an old campaigner accustomed to encounter and face the ups and downs of life.

He writes intelligently of his work, and with a greater freedom as to detail than our more exigeant censorship allows; so that you get an excellent picture of the daily life of a campaigner in the greatest of all wars.

Seven men were knocked down, almost at the first fire, and it has always been a matter of surprise to me that Hasbrook, old campaigner as he was, should be caught off his guard.

Am I not too old and weathered a world-campaigner?...

Clive's marriage was performed in Brussels, where Mr. James Binnie, who longed to see Rosey wedded, and his sister, whom we flippantly ventured to call the Campaigner, had been staying that summer.

" Hardened Campaigner.

In his youth he had been a campaigner; and now that he was a preacher he maintained his hardy habits, and always slept, summer and winter, with a bit of his window up.

They raised the tent again and carried in the stores, after which Mr. Chalk, with the air of an old campaigner, made a small fire and prepared breakfast.

[Illustration: "Mr. Chalk, with the air of an old campaigner, made a small fire and prepared breakfast.

I'm an ould campaigner.

So, being an old campaigner, I followed up the stream of provender to the fountain-head, the kitchen.

He said he thought that was the best course, as there would be division of labor; but, said he, "I am an old campaigner, and I know that men can not fight without food, and this work will be a fight.

King Christian crossed over into Sweden and laid siege to the strong fortress of Kalmar where he first saw actual war and showed himself a doughty campaigner of intrepid courage.