fighting-man

Call your fighting-man Grayhilt the Grim, keeper of Dragonsword of Darkborn, give him a plus-five wand of fireballs, put him in a haunted labyrinth with a Beholder, rev up your typewriter, and let 'er rip!

MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel 2009

His dark, scarred, almost sinister face was that of a fighting-man, and his velvet garments could not conceal the hard, dangerous lines of his limbs.

Jason Momoa is Conan the Barbarian; Mickey Rourke In, Too? « FirstShowing.net 2010

They speak in warrior rhetoric and revel in heroic, fighting-man stunts.

"The Republican Party has been using a grab-bag of strategies to counter Obama's policies over the past month." Ann Althouse 2009

I'd add "warrior rhetoric... heroic, fighting-man" to that.

"The Republican Party has been using a grab-bag of strategies to counter Obama's policies over the past month." Ann Althouse 2009

His dark, scarred, almost sinister face was that of a fighting-man, and his velvet garments could not conceal the hard, dangerous lines of his limbs.

The Facts About Conan Reis O'Brien 2008

Mechanically, I have always seen the oD&D cleric as really the “fighting-man/magic-user”.

The Meaning of Magic James Maliszewski 2008

Mechanically, I have always seen the oD&D cleric as really the “fighting-man/magic-user”.

The Meaning of Magic James Maliszewski 2008

_When I was a fighting-man, the kettle-drums they beat, _

Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

His slightest movement spoke of steel-spring muscles knit to a keen brain with the coordination of a born fighting-man.

Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

Athelstane's eyes glowed with simple delight at this flame of pagan magnificence, but to the black haired fighting-man of the West, it seemed that even in the loudest clamor of triumph, the trumpet, the drum and shouting faded away into the forgotten dust and silence of eternity.

People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005