soldats

Updated: June 26, 2025

There was no longer any hesitation. "Anglisky soldats" were in possession of Russian Headquarters, and the reputation of English soldiers in emergencies like this is known all over the world. I interviewed the Chief-of-Staff, General Lebediff, as to his orders for suppressing the revolters and went downstairs to find the vestibule empty except for my "monks."

John Ward - With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia

It is by no means inconsistent with the character of the man; never, in any instance, has he been known to value the lives of men, where either ambition or revenge instigated him. Tant mieux, replique Napoleon, cela me donne des soldats!!"

Sir Archibald Alison - Travels in France during the years 1814-15 : Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.

Il me semble que si les soldats peuvent supporter toutes les privations pour leur roi ou pour leur patrie, je dois pouvoir en faire autant pour ma femme. Compte sur ma tendresse, meme dans les circonstances les plus difficiles, tu l'auras toujours.

Eugénie Hamerton - Philip Gilbert Hamerton: An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894

We soon learned that the latter was a term of contempt applied by the former to the Germans. I asked him for some tobacco, which he readily gave to us from a capacious pouch. He waved his pipe at us in friendly fashion and said something which we took to be a question as to our identity. "English," we said, and in desperation turned to our scanty stock of French: "Soldats; prisoniers."

George Pearson - The Escape of a Princess Pat: Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months': imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's: Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany: into Holland

"Courage, soldats! Vive la mort, pour la femme et pour la gloire!" and with a shout half-exulting, half-maddened, the Gallic blood again fired to the desperate feat. Then there was a diversion a rush to the opposite side of the building a ladder might be of use there.

Sarah Tytler - Girlhood and Womanhood: The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes

"Vieux soldats ne meurent! jamais! jamais! jamais! Vieux soldats ne meurent jamais! ils simplement passent!" "An' M'sieu 'Ardy 'e say: 'Vat about? an' then 'e raise 'is two 'ands è Ciel so! an' 'e tell Le Bon Dieu all about it. Oh, 'ow 'e pray! Ecoutez! Docteur! you can 'ear 'im now! . . ."

Ralph Selwood Kendall - The Luck of the Mounted: A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police

Vous les verriez nos p'tits soldats, J'vous assure qu'ils seraient un peu l

Arthur Gleason - Golden Lads

M. Duchene, French master at Archbishop Holgate's School, York, who was wounded with his regiment at Verdun, writes in glowing terms of his comrades' praise. "Ah, those English soldiers!" he says. "In my regiment you only hear such expressions as 'Ils sont magnifiques, 'Ils sont superbs, 'Quels soldats! No better tribute could be given."

James Alexander Kilpatrick - Tommy Atkins at War: As Told in His Own Letters

There must be a very separate and special Heaven for those who love once, and never love again. Drusilla came away from the window to sing for them a popular song. But there was much in it to intrigue the imagination a vision of the heroic Maid a hint of the Marseillaise and so the nations were singing it . "Jeanne d'Arc, Jeanne d'Arc, Oh, soldats! entendez vous?

Temple Bailey - The Tin Soldier

At the carriage door appeared the Mayor with his scarf round his waist, saluting me with this remark: "Sir, this place is but a hole, but it is a hole in which hearts devoted to your august family are throbbing;" while at the other the village priest and his clergy, all in surplice and alb, struck up Soldats du drapeau tricolore D'Orieans toi qui la's Porte,

Prince De Joinville - Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville