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Soldiers of Fortune

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Chevaliers de lʹindustrie; men who live by their wits. Referring to those men in mediæval times who let themselves for hire into any army.

“His father was a soldier of fortune, as I am a sailor.”—Sir W. Scott: The Antiquary, chap. xx.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Sol-fa
Solan Goose
Solano
Solatium (A)
Soldan or Sowdan
Soldats (Des)
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Soldier’s Heart
Soldiers Battles (The)
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Solecism
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Solingen
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