The evasion of work or duty

Usage examples of soldiering.

Soldiering was something that they found they had the aptitude for, and they wanted to take the profession to another level.

The poor fellow lost his forearm and hand when an arquebus ball took him just at the elbow and so ended his soldiering days.

I never heard of a one-armed smith teaching smithery, but then I never heard of a farmer teaching soldiering, either.

This propensity for being generous and openhanded came from his having been a soldier in his youth, for soldiering is a school where the stingy man becomes liberal, and the liberal man becomes prodigal, and if there are any soldiers who are miserly, they are, like monsters, very rarely seen.

Sensing the danger early in their relationship, Alejandro had concocted a tale of modest roots and a conflict between the gentle breeding of his mother and the barefisted call of his soldiering father.

Yet he did not much enjoy soldiering and reckoned his main duty was to bring safely home as many of the Faulconer Legion as he possibly could, and the men in the Legion recognized that ambition and liked Hinton for it.

And this was soldiering, the column of marching men that was George Company moving on out Kolekole Pass Road toward drill between the rows of tall old elms that lined the road on either side exuding an abiding permanence, but Pvt Robert E.

Rome by soldiering, but by stirring up so much trouble for Tigranes in Antioch that the King of Kings had rued his decision to put Appius Claudius Pulcher in his place by making him kick his heels for months waiting for an audience.

The Cobras would now attempt one of the most difficult of all feats of soldiering, a fighting withdrawal.

They had served nearly all their time in various garrisons along the seacoast--from Fortress Monroe to Beaufort--where they had had comparatively little of the actual hardships of soldiering in the field.

It occurred to Stirling for the first time that he could learn a thing or two about soldiering from the Dux Bellorum.

He said himself that what he learned from his old sergeant in the guards was to real soldiering as his own breadmaking was to my mother’s.

Elizabeth, tearful and broken, had headed directly for the comfort of her Mother, both assum'd into a silent unapproachable cloud of mourning, the boys being left each to his own way of soldiering on, the Enemy who'd so unanswerably insulted them at their Backs now some where, and in and out of their sleep George got busier than he had to be with one Scheme and another, pulling Greenstone out of the Dyke under Cockfield Fell, carving and fitting together stalks of Humlock for another of his Gas-pipe Schemes, re-designing the Spur-gearing or the Pump-seals out at the Workings.

He would have to find out what became of him and whether he ever cleared up and was fit for soldiering again.

The real money in soldiering was in work as a mercenary, but all the good mercenary opportunities went either to men of the Friendlies, or the Dorsal.