common soldiery

In the affair with the Midianites Moses was more cruel than the officers and common soldiery.

Meusel's learned Germany might be copied in baker's-work,–one might emboss great heroes upon army-biscuit, in order to set on fire the common soldiery and make them hunger for glory,–great poets I would sketch on bridal-cakes in inlaid sculpture, and heraldic geniuses on oatmeal bread,–of authors for women sweet box-pictures might be designed for sugar-work.

Some of our common soldiery are, and I hope unjustly, suspected.

Then it was proposed to retire a little out of the crowd to a particular spot; and the captains and the commons conferred among themselves, and decided that a committee of the same number as theirs should be sent into the camp of the Five Cantons, to disclose to the common soldiery, the business, which had not yet reached them.

A sense of its spreading magnificence was borne in upon him, and though the simile was foreign to his mind, it seemed as distinct and separate from the thousands of other trees that blended in the leagues of surrounding forestry as might a mounted and sashed field marshal in the centre of an army of common soldiery.