Sentence examples for true soldiers from inspiring English sources

They had already put to flight a cluster of Confederate sympathizers, if not true soldiers, at Philippi in June 1861.

"When the guys step in the huddle and look around at each other, they know when they are missing one of their true soldiers.

Researching the novel, she made a discovery that seemed too good - or bad - to be true: soldiers named trenches and redoubts after children's books: "Peter Pan Trench, Hook Copse, Wendy Cottagetage"... Fairystories and utopian politics are entwined in the book.

Even today, when most developed countries no longer have conscription and professional forces have made a comeback, no sharp line divides most people from soldiers.6 True, soldiers are not a homogeneous lot.

It drove Gurowski mad that all McClellan did was ask for more troops and dig entrenchments: "If McClellan could know anything, then he would know this — that nothing is so destructive to an army as sieges, as diggings, and camps, and nothing more disciplines and re-invigorates men, makes them true soldiers, than does marching and fighting".

It's been said that true soldiers don't tell war stories because they have no need to relive the brutalities of engagement.

The Spartan cliché that all a true soldier needs to do is mutely absorb it all is clearly not working.

But through everyone recognized their superiority as long-range killing devices no true soldier wanted to use them because they required little individual skill.

Silas "rewards" him with a post in Shiloh as a military press liaison — the last thing that a true soldier would want.

His mother wrote with pride: "Here he exhibited the courage of a true soldier and for his coolness and bravery in the hour of fearful danger he was recommended for promotion as Major".

Through philanthropy and a willingness to get her hands dirty in projects in various countries to assist the needy, she became known far and wide as a true soldier of charity.