common soldiery

In the affair with the Midianites Moses was more cruel than the officers and common soldiery.

Meusel's learned Germany might be copied in baker's-work,–one might emboss great heroes upon army-biscuit, in order to set on fire the common soldiery and make them hunger for glory,–great poets I would sketch on bridal-cakes in inlaid sculpture, and heraldic geniuses on oatmeal bread,–of authors for women sweet box-pictures might be designed for sugar-work.

Some of our common soldiery are, and I hope unjustly, suspected.

Then it was proposed to retire a little out of the crowd to a particular spot; and the captains and the commons conferred among themselves, and decided that a committee of the same number as theirs should be sent into the camp of the Five Cantons, to disclose to the common soldiery, the business, which had not yet reached them.

When it was spread abroad among the common soldiery with what haughtiness Ariovistus had behaved at the conference, and how he had ordered the Romans to quit Gaul, and how his cavalry had made an attack upon our men, and how this had broken off the conference, a much greater alacrity and eagerness for battle was infused into our army.