sodger
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I again mounted on tiptoe and urged my question, "Will you like I for a sodger?" intimating, at the same time, that I was "bigger than that there chap," pointing to the little fifer.
From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by John Shipp
Every able-bodied man 'ave bin trained for a sodger, jist to carry out that ould Kaiser's plans.
From All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War by Joseph Hocking
Yes, seh, he sut’n’y wuz a good sodger!
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 9 by Various
A sodger ought to snatch his rest when he can get it.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
He was a remarkable saucy fellow and got nothing but ill-will from the prisoners—though, I make no doubt, the man is a tolerable sodger on sarvice.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
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