"Soldiery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... design, the water-plugs have been marked, and a force detailed to set the water running. In brief, the war will be brought home to the North; Chicago will be dealt with like a city taken by assault, given over to the torch, the sword, and the brutal lust of a drunken soldiery. On it will be wreaked all the havoc, the agony, and the desolation which three years of war have heaped upon the South; and its upgoing flames will be the torch that shall light a score of other cities to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 • Various
... seemed to be burning the contents of his house in a bonfire in the gutter. Poor men burned things that seemed useful to the casual eye —mattresses, bolsters, all soiled, soiled again and polluted by four years of soldiery. ...
— The Happy Foreigner • Enid Bagnold
... palace, and, undismayed at sight of long lines of soldiery and officials, asked for an audience with ...
— The Junior Classics • Various
... the use of arms. If we were to take issue with the Roman soldiery, they would kill us all, one after the other. Besides, you brought only two swords, and what could we do ...
— The Crushed Flower and Other Stories • Leonid Andreyev
... on his head and a picklock key at his girdle)—the titles of counts and marquises. In Piedmont the matter is different: we must either have been the rabble or the lords; we were military, and we retain over the populace the same rank and spirit as our ancestors held over the soldiery. ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor
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