war-man

• “So I gave him an hundred purses and despatched him to thee, in the habit of a merchant, whereas he is a captain and a war-man; and when they led thee to thy death after slaying the forty captives, I also sent thee this old woman to save thee from slaughter.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “The sweet war-man is dead and rotten; sweet chucks, beat not the bones of the buried: when he breathed, he was a man.”

  Love’s Labour ’s Lost

• “All the youths seized their weapons; the huge war-drums, the hollowed bole of a tree fringed with Nyáre hide, was set up in the middle of the street; preparations for the week of singing and dancing which precedes a campaign were already in hand, and one war-man gave earnest of blood-shed by spearing a goat the property of Mr. Tippet.”

  Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo

• “The sweet war-man is dead and rotten: sweet chucks, beat not the bones of the buried: when he breathed, he was a man.”

  William Shakespeare

• “The sweet war-man is dead and rotten; sweet chucks, beat not the bones of the buried; when he breathed, he was a man.”

  Act V. Scene II. Love’s Labour’s Lost

• “I suppose they do forget, and read a man's stuff by their fires (ordering the kids to be quiet) ... thinking that this war-man writing from the field is a great and lucky guy.”

  Red Fleece

• “Crawford was in the Senate from Georgia, and was a war-man.”

  The Memories of Fifty Years

• “The sweet war-man (Hector of Troy) is dead and rotten; sweet chucks, beat not the bones of the buried: when he breathed, he was a man!”

  Appreciations, with an Essay on Style

• “So I gave him an hundred purses and despatched him to thee, in the habit of a merchant, whereas he is a captain and a war-man; and when they led thee to thy death after slaying the forty captives, I also sent thee this old woman to save thee from slaughter. ”

  Arabian nights. English

• “Nothing is strong on earth but the Will; and hate to the will is as the iron in the hands of the war-man. ”

  Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete

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