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  • They are evidently English human creatures, in the height of silent fury and measured circuit of fate; whom we here audibly name once more, Sir Hatton Cheek, Sir Thomas Dutton, knights both, soldadoes both.

    The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

  • Tilly's _soldadoes_, they played us into Holstein, and when the ditch of Stralsund was choked with the tartan of Mackay, and our lads were falling like corn before the hook, a Reay piper stood valiantly in front and played a salute.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • Campbells of the shire: of them alone the chief could muster 5000 half-merkland men at a first levy, all capable swordsmen, well drilled and disciplined _soldadoes_, who had, in addition to the usual schooling in arms of every Gael, been taught many of the niceties of new-fashioned war, countermarch, wheeling, and pike-drill.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • The _Espirito Santo_ they called it, a great ship of many decks of guns, laden with treasure and grandees of Spain, and fierce soldadoes, that now lay fathom deep to all eternity, done with her wars and voyages, in Sandag bay, upon the west of Aros.

    Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Adventures of those three bloody-minded soldadoes?

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Adventures of those three bloody - minded soldadoes?

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

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