sodger
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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There's some reason for thinkin' the one who wasn't a sodger was a person o' consequence—a man o' valuable property that may be useful during the siege as well as after.
From Roger Davis, Loyalist by Frank Baird
I'll lave him now, and go be a sodger.
From St. Patrick's Eve by Charles James Lever
I was formed baith in mind and body, he said, for a sodger; and if I took but care—a thing he never could do himsel—I micht dee a serjeant.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
Why, that pretty curled fringe that I and those two sodger Johnnies were eager to die for a little while ago is all over the shop.
From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Bertram Mitford
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
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