Meanings
comparative more soldier-like · superlative most soldier-like
- alternativeAlternative form of soldierlike.
She curtsied at seeing two tall soldier-like gentlemen before her.
1885, G[eorge] A[lfred] Henty, “At Home at Last”, in For Name and Fame or Through Afghan Passes, London: Blackie & Son, Limited, […], page 3492 more examples
Such was the amiable Frenchman for whom I felt that perfect friendship, that soldier-like fraternity, which we are only capable of in our youth, before we are alive to feelings of rivalship, before irrevocable courses, furrow and divide the field of futurity.
1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book XII. The history of Lord Nelville.] Chap[ter] I.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 145Jason’s dad, unlike his own, was a soldier-like man, precise, on time, sharp-eyed.
2003, Rachel Wyatt, Time’s Reach, Lantzville, B.C.: Oolichan Books, →ISBN, page 159
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