Everybody turned out to cheer the smart, soldierlike detachments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference

Especially when he's all tough and soldierlike around anyone but Tasha.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

Nothing could be steadier; nothing could be more soldierlike than their bearing. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

Then everything that was soldierlike was good, whether it was the irregularities of a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Regained] Reference

"You do seem so much more soldierlike, Captain, than these pretty men on their horses.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Sword]

He listened in silence, without even winking or turning his dull, attentive, soldierlike glance away from me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference

So the man received back his soldierlike suit, which made him look like a knight, and the Devil took back his bear-skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

He braced himself, soldierlike, to the inevitable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testing of Diana Mallory] Reference

If you want a receipt for this soldierlike paragon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs] Reference

He spoke of such with soldierlike respect and decorum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

He is a fine soldierlike man, broad-shouldered and tall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863] Reference

You look too soldierlike, too Prussian for me as you are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minna Von Barnhelm] Reference

The men were in fine form and presented a splendid soldierlike appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great War As I Saw It] Reference

Those are chosen who are neatest and most soldierlike in their appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point]

It was a soldierlike little speech, delivered with the man's gallant charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Planet] Reference

Rallywood fronted them calm and soldierlike, the picture of a gallant despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Mercenary] Reference

The dragoons themselves were all recruits, and soldierlike neither in dress or appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference

The man was a son of Anak in altitude, somewhat bent by years, but having a soldierlike air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I.] Reference

States regulars, and certainly they saluted in a more soldierlike way than the ordinary volunteers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863] Reference

She could not sit there under his very picture looking down on her, manly, and kind, and soldierlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."] Reference

He was a remarkably fine old figure, very tall, and maintaining a soldierlike or military manner and address.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary — Complete] Reference

In fact we have been drilling over rocks and hills so long that now our men are getting to be quite soldierlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Augusta County: Clinton Hatcher to Mary Anna Sibert, August 14, 1861] Reference

It was a sore trial to the youth, tougher than many a battle, to get by us creditably and with soldierlike bearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers] Reference

But not merely his grim glance and his scars, even his movements and his voice had something soldierlike about them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812] Reference

The man was busy tightening the saddle girths, and he answered Armitage's further questions with soldierlike brevity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Port of Missing Men] Reference

We regret that want of room prevents us from noticing as we could wish the neat and soldierlike address of thanks from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock] Reference

Some soldierlike instinct, or perchance some prescience of danger, caused him to choose a place particularly suitable to defence.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and Allan] Reference

Pearson, "he said, resuming his soldierlike brevity," take four file, and see what is yonder -- No -- the knaves may shrink from thee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference

Douglas Haig, who so skilfully handled the scanty forces at his disposal, and economised his few reserves with such soldierlike foresight.    From Wordnik.com.  [1914] Reference

If monkeys an 'goats is soldierlike so's poultry. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-05] Reference

A voice of soldierlike cordiality, and shaking me by the hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Get you into order, my hearts, and form yourselves around the ladies soldierlike and firmly.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Talisman] Reference