condottiere

Example Sentences

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He's a species of condottiere; we can buy his allegiance with his service: and we must forego the sentimental objection.

From The Quality of Mercy by Howells, William Dean

But he was really little more than a condottiere, and his orthodoxy was suspect.

From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir

Is he not the famous Bianchetti, a condottiere employed by the people, as the condottieri once were by the kings and nobles?

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

The earliest writers on the new tactics necessitated by villainous saltpetre were Italians trained in condottiere warfare.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

As for the others, they were clerks, who in one way or another had managed to get their seats—men with no great permanent stake in the community, the modern substitute for the condottiere class.

From The Man Who Wins by Herrick, Robert