soldier-like

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See also: soldierlike

English

Adjective

soldier-like (comparative more soldier-like, superlative most soldier-like)

Alternative form of soldierlike.
- 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D Lawler, “ Chap I.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. , volume III, London: Corri, ; and sold by Colburn, , and Mackenzie, , →OCLC, page 145:
  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.
- 1885, G[eorge] A[lfred] Henty, “At Home at Last”, in For Name and Fame or Through Afghan Passes, London: Blackie & Son, Limited, , page 349:
  She curtsied at seeing two tall soldier-like gentlemen before her.
- 2003, Rachel Wyatt, Time’s Reach, Lantzville, B.C.: Oolichan Books, →ISBN, page 159:
  Jason’s dad, unlike his own, was a soldier-like man, precise, on time, sharp-eyed.

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