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Especially I would plead with mothers to send us pure men for our army officers who will set their men a high example of chivalry towards the weakest native woman, and who will so influence them by example and personal influence that they may look upon voluntarily disabling themselves from active service, while still taking the government pay, as unmanly and unsoldierly.
His legs were like pipe-stems, his body was like a board, but he was straight enough, not unsoldierly, nor so bad to look at when his back was on you; but when he showed his face you had little pleasure in him. It seemed made of brown putty, the nose was like india-rubber, and the eyes had that dull, sullen look of a mongrel got of a fox-terrier and a bull-dog.
Prince Andrew glanced again at the artillery officer's small figure. There was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, but extremely attractive. The staff officer and Prince Andrew mounted their horses and rode on.
We would much prefer the dangers of actual warfare to this unsoldierly method of subduing the village." The Tarakanian ruler, becoming enraged, ordered the soldiers to destroy the whole kingdom, plunder the villages, burn the houses and provisions, and slaughter the cattle. "Should you disobey my orders," said he, "I will have every one of you executed."
Maggie figured thus as the relieving sentry, and so smoothly did use and custom work for them that her mate might even, on this occasion, after acceptance of the pass-word, have departed without irrelevant and, in strictness, unsoldierly gossip.
And surely they needed as long notice as possible of an enemy's approach, for they were at that time addicted to the practice of undressing than which nothing could be more unsoldierly.
Then he walked slowly out, halting just inside the subdivision door. "I don't mind a few demerits, but I don't like to be accused of unsoldierly neglect," mused the young cadet captain. "Let me see if I can think up a way of presenting my statement so that the O.C. won't scorch me." As Dick stood there in the gloom, a quick, soft step sounded outside.
The chorus was ringing, the glasses and the Paymaster's stick were rapping on the table, the Sergeant More, with a blue brattie tied tight across his paunch to lessen its unsoldierly amplitude, went out and in with the gill-stoups, pausing now and then on the errand to lean against the door of the room with the empty tray in his hand, drumming on it with his finger-tips and joining in the officers' owercome.
In this shameful day, one colonel, one captain, three subalterns, and ten privates were killed: one lieutenant colonel, one captain, and one hundred and fifty-seven privates were missing. The unsoldierly conduct displayed on this occasion was not attributable to a want of personal courage, but to other causes.
He was also accused of hauteur and of an unsoldierly reserve with his brother officers. Some loose-tongued ones even called him a milk-sop, because he was constantly seen conversing with the priest he who had nothing to say to an honest soldier. Others said, "No, hang it, he is not a milk-sop: he is a tried soldier: he is a sulky beggar all the same."
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