soldiery

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By L.A.’s yardstick of history, its story goes way back, like Queen-Victoria-and-first-movie-camera far back, to when it was first dedicated to the nation’s suffering soldiery, and then back a century before then.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

Just as I emerged upon the street, I came face to face with a fine looking young man, with soldiery bearing, leading an elderly woman with a young lady following close behind.

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2019

Familiarly, we take in the hate/respect struggle between the civilian scout and the garrison commander; the love relations between the commander's daughter and the young first lieutenant who-has-yet-to-prove-himself; the comic routines of the general soldiery.

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2019

Menshevik Kerensky was present in Petrograd when there began a curiously leaderless and random series of riots and disorders among the people and local soldiery.

From Time • Jan. 18, 2015

My gaze was fixed without object upon the encampment, the dim figures who, an arm or a cheek caught in the distinguishing gesture of flame, huddled or moved about the mob of soldiery.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson