Sentence examples for soldiers himself from inspiring English sources

Colonel Macklin, 43, a cheerful city police sergeant, says some of the 130 reserve soldiers, himself included, have served in Iraq or Afghanistan and generally show up to hone their skills.

Her son, a soldier himself, was killed by sniper fire.

On land the soldier himself has been the basic burden carrier of armies.

Adding to these works, Ben Fountain, while not a soldier himself, published a masterly Iraq war novel in 2012, "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk".

He said he based his belief on information from people who knew Private Manning, not on his contact with the soldier himself.

A near-mutiny led by Abdelkader reverses this injustice, though the original soldier himself is reasonably passive.

A soldier himself, Mr. Bykov wrote about war in a manner devoid of the standard Soviet romance.

While some soldiers mounted a failed coup attempt last year, the army has close ties with Bashir – who was a soldier himself.

Petulant to the last, the king (no mean soldier himself) dropped the Great Seal of England into the Thames as he did a runner to France.

"We are reluctant to admit that essentially war is the business of killing," Marshall wrote, while the soldier himself "comes from a civilization in which aggression, connected with the taking of life, is prohibited and unacceptable".

Too nice a man to have made a successful soldier himself (though he did command a transport platoon during the Mau Mau uprising), Leo thought that those who had been at the sharp end deserved to have their say.