Meanings of soldierlike in English

Those are chosen who are neatest and most soldierlike in their appearance.

The story was told the Commissioner with soldierlike brevity by Superintendent Crozier.

It was a soldierlike little speech, delivered with the man's gallant charm.

Get you into order, my hearts, and form yourselves around the ladies soldierlike and firmly.

Behind her, Kosmina's face took on the same soldierlike expression he'd seen in the wine cellar.

Everyone is thin and has soldierlike posture, a small nose, a strong jawline, and long legs.

Among them men noted the plain, soldierlike Berthier, the ever trusty and methodical chief of the staff.

He braced himself, soldierlike, to the inevitable.

He listened in silence, without even winking or turning his dull, attentive, soldierlike glance away from me.

The man was busy tightening the saddle girths, and he answered Armitage's further questions with soldierlike brevity.

Probably he experienced a peculiar pleasure at that desperate moment in displaying his horsemanship and other soldierlike qualities.

That the soldierlike habit of mind is one which makes a man ready to receive the truth of Christ.

Some soldierlike instinct, or perchance some prescience of danger, caused him to choose a place particularly suitable to defence.

It was a sore trial to the youth, tougher than many a battle, to get by us creditably and with soldierlike bearing.

Perhaps the preacher would have a sermon against war, and the preacher should see how soldierlike he would take this attack on him.

In spite of all this they presented, at the inspections to which I have referred, a most soldierlike, splendid, though somewhat war-worn, appearance.