common soldiery
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Bribery and treason could not be imputed to men so well esteemed, and the opinion gained ground among the common soldiery, that the peddler had dealings with the dark one.
From The Spy by Cooper, James Fenimore
"In New York, in 1776, a rage for plundering, under pretence of taking Tory property, infected many of the common soldiery, and even some of the officers."
From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Ryerson, Egerton
Some of our common soldiery are, and I hope unjustly, suspected.
From Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe by Defoe, Daniel
What country but ours supplies such material to the ranks of its common soldiery?
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
They were forced to make a part of the journey in wagons with the common soldiery and camp-retainers, and Aurore in this manner took the itch, to her mother's great mortification.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 by Various
