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n. (context US historical English) Any of the members of a Cheyenne Indian military society in the mid 19th century.
Usage examples of "dog soldier".
Granted, it hadn't worked very well in the end for poor Kami, when the first Dog Soldier Kami went up against had feinted low and then slashed high, leaving his sword dropping from his fingers while his severed head tumbled through the air to land preposterously upright, a surprised expression on his dead face.
The dog soldier only knew that some fool Persian had it in his head to whip the world, or a Moorish chieftain was on the prod.
So I would be very careful what you or your dog soldier say to me, because I am sick of being threatened.
Why, I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.
When you've got Trackers walking around - not only painted up but with lumps stuck in their faces, and others pretending to be renegades it's kinda hard for a simple-minded dog soldier like me to know which way is up!