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  • A company in England is offering prospective "diers" some fancy choice when it comes to their coffins.

    CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2007 2007

  • "You're just another kook singing 'Onward Christian Sol'diers' with a flag in one hand and a gun in the other.

    The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987

  • They are actors even if they are the diers; they prepare for death, imagine it, risk it, endure it, seek to understand it.

    Death and The Civil War JE 2008

  • This wood you must take with you, and see whether the Silke diers or Wooll diers in Turky can doe it, with this one you may inrich your selfe very much, and therefore it is to be endeuoured earnestly by you.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Secondary missions included dazzling enemy sol - diers with a flicker effect and protecting friendly foot troops in triangles of darkness formed between adjacent lights.

    Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

  • For most men, this was the first opportunity to visit their homes as sol - diers.

    Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

  • Sol - diers don't admit to anything that might get them in trouble.

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

  • Even General Konnal, who detested all humans, had admitted that these sol - diers had fought well, and though they had retreated, they had done so in good order.

    Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

  • A veteran campaigner, Samuval knew that when the weather broke and the rain set in, when the road narrowed, the wind howled and the enemy nipped at their heels, the sol - diers would begin to have second thoughts about this ven - ture.

    Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

  • The sol - diers talked about him on the Prekkendorran like that.

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

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