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- noun Plural form of
souldiour .
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Examples
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In all assemblies and mietinges, feaste, or other: thei praie for their souldiours, and menne of warre.
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The victories of their forefathers and eldres, thei put into Balade, and sing theim with greate honour and praises: for that thei thinke the courages of the souldiours and menne of warre be muche quickened, and kindled thereby.
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The apparail that the souldiours do vse, is most comely and honeste.
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Our men rowed to the land in the long boates, euery one full of souldiours, and the ships which could not discharge their ordenance against the castle, bent them against the shore, (for the enemy had three brasse peeces lying vpon the strand) and many people were there gathered together where our souldiours shoulde land.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Christians in the spring had against the Turks strooke such a terrour in many of the Turkish souldiours, as by report diuers vpon the way thither left their Captaines and stole away.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The number of souldiours which went to the warres of Hungary this yeere were 470000, as by the particulars giuen by the Admirall to the Ambassadour hereunder doe appeare.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Generall, who confessed that there were about 4000. souldiours come into the towne, with certaine horsemen, 36. waggons with money, and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The bulwarkes of the vttermost warde are not yet finished, which are in number but two: there are continually in the castle seuen hundred souldiours.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Our soldiours being come to the valley aforesaid found no resistance, neither could once see a Spaniard; but found a smal peece of brasse about a fadome long, and two barrels of gunpowder; and when our souldiours perceiued that there was no good to bee done (forbearing to mount the hils, because they had no commission so to do) with such thinges as they had they returned to the towne.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Wherevpon, much dust being raised, which stopped our eyes and vtterly depriued vs of sight, and our men and horses pressing so sore one vpon the necke of another, plunged themselues on the sudden into such a steepe and dangerous valley, that treading one vpon another, they quelled to death not onely a multitude of the common souldiours, but diuers most honourable personages, and some of our neere kinsmen.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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