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"Resistance is not soldiership," said one of them.
From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Maud Wilder Goodwin
This kind of professional soldiership, for which no patriotism or devotion to a noble cause could be pleaded, did not shock the general conscience in Fletcher's day.
From Fletcher of Madeley by Frederic W. Macdonald
But, publicly speaking, the more a soldier succeeds, the more he looks upon soldiership as something superior to all other kinds of ascendancy, and qualified to dispense with them.
From Captain Sword and Captain Pen A Poem by Leigh Hunt
I wrote a long letter to my love, who replied, agreeing with me, though sorrowfully, that soldiership was my best occupation.
From The MS. in a Red Box by John Arthur Hamilton
But Waterloo had effectually cured him of the passion for soldiership, and he constantly appealed to his unwillingness to shed the blood of Frenchmen.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
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