Usage of "soldier of fortune"

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A person hired to fight for another country than their own.

Usage of soldier of fortune in English

These were days when the soldier of fortune mounted to high places. 
 Michel and Angele [A Ladder of Swords] — Volume 2 

A dreamer, a soldier of fortune, a man without place or following. 
 Montlivet 

Have you ever had the wish to be a soldier of fortune? 
 The Penalty 

One month ago, an unknown soldier of fortune took Kalgan without a fight. 
 Foundation and Empire 

Unlike the ordinary soldier of fortune, he was not in the least thrasonical. 
 The Dictator 

Take another name; be for a time a soldier of fortune. 
 Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy 

That little soldier of fortune took her good turn in an easy way. 
 Sister Carrie: A Novel 

The soldier of fortune thought no longer of his nest-eggs-his Unitas Bank deposit-notes 
 Charlotte's Inheritance 

Right here I end my career as a soldier of fortune. 
 Gordon Craig, Soldier of Fortune 

But that's the other perk of being a soldier of fortune. 
 World war z: an oral history of the zombie war 

I am a soldier of fortune, and my name is Macklin. 
 Captain Macklin: His Memoirs 

Pedro de Mendoza, a soldier of fortune, ventured on the attempt. 
 South America 

But he is but a soldier of fortune, and his career is closed. 
 Night and Morning, Volume 4 

No, there's none of the soldier of fortune business about it. 
 White Ashes 

Or is he one of these harum-scarum soldier of fortune sort of chaps? 
 Okewood of the Secret Service 

And since then you have been a soldier of fortune, eh? 
 Quin 

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Meanings of soldier of fortune in English