Word Finder - soldiers

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A member of an army, of any rank.

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A private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.

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A guardsman.

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A member of the Salvation Army.

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A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.

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A term of affection for a young boy.

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Someone who fights or toils well.

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The red or cuckoo gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).

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One of the asexual polymorphic forms of termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.

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A red herring (cured kipper with flesh turned red).

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To continue steadfast; to keep striving.

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To serve as a soldier.

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To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.

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To take a ride on (another person's horse) without permission.

Soldiers were marching through the fields.

The soldiers are coming!

One of the soldiers opened the submarine's door and climbed in.

He sends soldiers among us to take away our liberty.

A set of soldiers approached on patrol.

Two soldiers stood near the tunnel entrance nearby, weapons raised.

In one of the parks is a soldiers' and sailors' monument.

They were all three bioengineered soldiers, thick-bodied and towering over her.

One of the soldiers blasted it with concentrated laser.

He courageously aided the escape of Youssouff, pursued by the soldiers of the bey, of whom he was one of the officers, for violation of the seraglio law.

Elise had said the PMF soldiers were fighting alongside hers, and that they'd seen soldiers in Western uniforms.

In the paramilitary organization that relied on secrecy and loyalty to survive, the soldiers followed the man they trusted most.

Five men, from our unique pool of soldiers, Brady said, exchanging a look of understanding with the Undersecretary.

He was more intrigued by the sight of soldiers in PMF grays as well as those in the regular military's black uniforms.

More soldiers in gray and black made their way down the bonfires, pausing to talk to Mike.

Down here it was as if the ghosts of soldiers wandered.

On all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on with upraised arms.

The dilapidated, abandoned facility fiercely defended by the soldiers in Western uniforms was not worth their efforts when compared to the buildings in much better shape down the road.

Brady posted two of his most trusted soldiers as guards and geared up for the mission to the Peak.

Jack whined from nearby, and Lana moved to his side, unable to help the two soldiers tending to Brady.

Two of the lots were immediately purchased by Captain Ephraim Williams (1715-1755), who was at the time commander of Fort Massachusetts in the vicinity; several other lots were bought by soldiers under him; and in 1 753 the proprietors organized a township government.

Eight thousand Spanish soldiers were embarked.

Conflicts occurred between the strikers and the independent laborers and the police; the trouble spread to the city of Parma, where violent scenes occurred when the labor exchange was occupied by the troops, and many soldiers and policemen, whose behaviour as usual was exemplary throughout, were seriously wounded.

Apart from settlers who came for trade, the flow of government officials, and soldiers, both officers and men, ended generally in recruiting the Creole element.

The natives of Azerbaijan make excellent soldiers, and about a third of the Persian army is composed of them.

His corpse, after suffering every indignity, was quartered by the public hangman, and burnt with dung by the Romanist soldiers.

Had he made in 1815 the wise distribution of his soldiers in the theatre of war which he made in his former immortal campaigns, he would have concentrated 155,000 to 160,000 of his available force opposite to Charleroi on June 14, and the issue of the campaign would hardly have been in doubt.

Blucher's worn-out soldiers could not withstand the tremendous impact of Napoleon's choicest troops, and the Prussian centre was pierced and broken.

In the meantime Major Richard Ingoldsby and two companies of soldiers had landed (January 28, 1691) and demanded possession of the fort.

Leisler refused to surrender it, and after some controversy an attack was made on the 17th of March in which two soldiers were killed and several wounded.

In October 1868 a unique collection of ancient Augustan silver plate was discovered on the Galgenberg near Hildesheim by some soldiers who were throwing up earthworks.

An Act of 1910 provides that indigent soldiers, sailors or marines of the U.S. and their families be cared for in their homes and not in almshouses.

When Major Richard Ingoldsby arrived with two companies of the king's soldiers and demanded possession of the fort, Leisler refused although he still professed his willingness to deliver it to Sloughter.

On the 17th of March 1691 Leisler's force fired on the king's soldiers, killing two and wounding several.

It was under these conditions that the Loyalists, in the elections of 1768 and 1769, gained control of the assembly and in the latter year passed an act granting the soldiers' supplies.

Kerbela owes its existence to the fact that IJosain, a son of `Ali, the fourth caliph, was slain here by the soldiers of Yazid, the rival aspirant to the caliphate, on the 10th of October A.D.

In the city are an excellent public library, an Academy of Sciences, several turn-halls and other German social organizations, the Iowa soldiers' orphans' home, Brown business college, and several minor Roman Catholic institutions.

This triumph of the mutiny was the beginning of the German revolution, and the sailors from Kiel and other northern ports carried the idea of Workmen's and Soldiers' Councils throughout the north of Germany and ultimately to Berlin.

Soldiers are for him not merely unproductive labourers, as Smith called them; they are rather "destructive labourers."

On the murder of Domitian, in September 96, Nerva was declared emperor by the people and the soldiers.

This factor was the rupture of communications with foreign countries, due in the earlier stages of the war to the limitation, and at one time the prohibition, of exports by neutral countries, the passing over of some of these countries to the enemy, and lastly the blockade by the enemy Powers, which increased in efficiency and made it more and more difficult to import the most essential commodities, until in the end it was almost impossible to obtain from abroad anything, needed either for the soldiers or the civilians.

Charitable Institutions, &c. - The state maintains a school for the blind at Gary, a school for deaf mutes at Sioux Falls, a tuberculosis sanatorium at Custer, a general hospital for the insane at Yankton, a school for the feeble-minded at Redfield, a soldiers' home at Hot Springs, a reform school at Plankinton, and a penitentiary at Sioux Falls.

In addition to the statues in Juneau Park there is a statue of Kosciusko in the park of that name; one of Washington and a soldiers' monument on Grand Avenue; a statue of Henry Bergh in front of the city hall; one of Robert Burns in the First Ward Park, and, in Washington Park, a replica of Ernst Rietschel's Schiller-Goethe monument in Jena, given to the city in 1908 by the Germans of Milwaukee.

It has a Carnegie library, and is the seat of an Evangelical Lutheran theological seminary (1865), of Lutheran homes for the aged and orphan, of the Milwaukee county hospital for the insane, of the Milwaukee sanatorium for nervous diseases, and of the north-western branch of the national soldiers' home, which has grounds covering 385 acres and with main building and barracks affording quarters for over 2000 disabled veterans, and has a hospital, a theatre, and a library of 15,000 volumes.

He was brought up in his father's camp on the Rhine among the soldiers, and received the name Caligula from the caligae, or foot-soldiers' boots, which he used to wear.

The distribution of medals to the soldiers and the institution of the Victoria Cross (February 1857) as a reward for individual instances of merit and valour must also be noted among the incidents which occupied the queen's time and thoughts.

Here is the royal hospital for pensioners and maimed soldiers.

The shameless profligacy of the emperor's life was such as to shock even a Roman public. His popularity with the army declined, and Maesa, perceiving that the soldiers were in favour of Alexander Severus, persuaded Heliogabalus to raise his cousin to the dignity of Caesar (221), a step of which he soon repented.

Dan activated one of the buttons on his command headpiece that sent his rally orders out to the soldiers in the building.

She had a feeling the doc would need his own pain meds if he kept taunting the two tense soldiers.