Reprinted with permission from WWII: A Chronicle of soldiering by James Jones, published by the University of Chicago Press.
But the confusion points to more serious problems with how our society thinks about both sex and soldiering.
But there are two other candidates as well who are soldiering along without any national attention.
As a teenager he developed a passion for soldiering, or, rather, the idea of it.
ABC is soldiering on with the series, even though, with the loss of Oh, it will be on creative life support.
It is nothing to trouble you, because your soldiering is done, John; and greatly done.
The headaches that had begun while he was soldiering were increasing.
He entered the army, and, after seven years of soldiering was discharged in 1859.
We had every thing to learn, and this was our first lesson in soldiering.
The General, by the easiest of transitions, passed on to the subject of soldiering in India.
c.1300, souder, from Old French soudier, soldier "one who serves in the army for pay," from Medieval Latin soldarius "a soldier" (cf. Spanish soldado, Italian soldato and French soldat "soldier," which is borrowed from Italian), literally "one having pay," from Late Latin soldum, extended sense of accusative of Latin solidus, name of a Roman gold coin (see solidus). The -l- has been regular in English since mid-14c., in imitation of Latin. Willie and Joe always say sojer in the Bill Mauldin cartoons, and this seems to mirror 16c.-17c. spellings sojar, soger, sojour.
"to serve as a soldier," 1640s, from soldier (n.). Related: Soldiered; soldiering. To soldier on "persist doggedly" is attested from 1954.
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To avoid work; idle; shirk; fuck the dog, goldbrick: He soldiered on the job and the place was deserted (1840+ Nautical)
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