What is "soldierly"

Usage examples of "soldierly".

Hence, while he has endeavored truly to depict--or to let those who made history at the time help him to depict--the enormity of the offence of the armed Rebellion and of the heresies and plottings of certain Southern leaders precipitating it, yet not one word will be found, herein, condemnatory of those who, with manly candor, soldierly courage, and true patriotism, acknowledged that error when the ultimate arbitrament of the sword had decided against them.

Nowhere have I heard it suggested that the Egyptian fellahin are good soldierly material.

Is not that a more soldierly sport than kinderspiel such as hand-grasping and the like?

Standing erect and proud in the best soldierly tradition, with his adjutant, Major Streck, at his side, he marched calmly on between the muzzles of the police rifles until he reached the Odeonsplatz.

Various corps of feminine auxiliaries were enrolled during that time and paraded the world thereafter in appetising soldierly outfits.

Jon closed his ears to the fevers of excitement and forged his way ever closer toward the foreto Amabel herself, bound and dragged along in the center of a soldierly square-knot, behind the chanting priests and the upheld cross.

With forty-five Boers to hold down, and 500 under Fourie, De Wet, and De la Rey around them, the little band made rapid preparation for a desperate resistance: the prisoners were laid upon their faces, the men knocked loopholes in the mud walls of the kraal, and a blunt soldierly answer was returned to the demand for surrender.

At Fort Bridger, some days after this, we took on board a cavalry sergeant, a very proper and soldierly person indeed.

Then Gonzales, who presented a fine, soldierly appearance in his soldier clothes, and the likeness to Beauregard was greater than ever.

Among the Nar, chieftainship was determined by a sort of soldierly athletic contest.

Once the mob of soldierly fortifiers had put it in place, of course, the door had become effectively impassable.

As far as Gremio could see, though, neither holiness nor piety was an essential soldierly virtue.

Have not you also that passive obedience which is so easily converted into soldierly obedience?

But the next in turn was a tall, strapping, long-limbed, small-headed, curly-haired Pennsylvania Dutchman, with a soldierly smartness in his manner.

That was just the way that Chief Pawl and almost all of his squadron left, and for the same basic reasons: half-pay or none at all and always very late at that, being stringently forbidden such soldierly solaces as strong drink, hemp, tobacco and the company of females within the camp, while at the same time being most strongly forbidden to leave the camp to seek out such pleasure under enforced penalties of flogging, hideous torture, maiming, mutilation, even death.