"Soldiering" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... few weeks out, Harman, the second mate, one day accused one of the men of "soldiering," and striking him in the face, broke his nose, and as the man lay on the deck he kicked him brutally. Challoner, who was on deck at the time, jumped down off the poop, and seizing Harman by the arm, called him a ...
— The Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 • Louis Becke
... man, who laid aside his spiritual for military duties, will close my history of soldiering on ...
— Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army • William G. Stevenson
... but he is quite young—not twenty-four yet—though he has been soldiering for the last eight years. He served under Wellington in Spain, fought all through the Chilian War, was Cochrane's right-hand man at the capture of Valdivia, and now he has come to help us. He has been shipwrecked, taken prisoner, wounded ...
— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens
... the girls was my sister. I immediately scented trouble. I skipped across to the other side of the depot, intending to board the train from the other side when it came in; I was not going to have my soldiering interfered with if I could help it. Standing in the shelter of a pillar, I did not notice two husky recruits in khaki behind me. "Is your name Grant?" they asked. "Yes." "The Colonel wants to see you at once," they informed me, and ...
— S.O.S. Stand to! • Reginald Grant
... those boys who throw their hearts into everything they take in hand, and although soldiering as a profession was repugnant to him, he made such progress in the O.T.C. that he quite distinguished himself. Indeed, he did so well, that Captain Pringle, with whom he became very friendly, urged ...
— All for a Scrap of Paper - A Romance of the Present War • Joseph Hocking
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