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1  He beckoned, and straightway the new-comers were encompassed by four-and-twenty soldiers.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XIV
2  A Bulgarian captain came in, saw me all bleeding, and the soldier not in the least disconcerted.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In VIII
3  This Jew was much attached to my person, but could not triumph over it; I resisted him better than the Bulgarian soldier.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In VIII
4  He was a quarter Spaniard, born of a mongrel in Tucuman; he had been singing-boy, sacristan, sailor, monk, pedlar, soldier, and lackey.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XIV
5  Four soldiers stood opposite to this man; each of them fired three balls at his head, with all the calmness in the world; and the whole assembly went away very well satisfied.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XXIII
6  Our men defended themselves like the Pope's soldiers; they flung themselves upon their knees, and threw down their arms, begging of the corsair an absolution in articulo mortis.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XI
7  The slaves, my companions, those who had taken them, soldiers, sailors, blacks, whites, mulattoes, and at last my captain, all were killed, and I remained dying on a heap of dead.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XI
8  A Moor seized my mother by the right arm, while my captain's lieutenant held her by the left; a Moorish soldier had hold of her by one leg, and one of our corsairs held her by the other.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XI