sodger

"It 'ud never do to own he was beaten by a man as was sober in a stand up fight—and he a sodger."

It 'as long been my opinion, as a sodger and a man, That I couldn't get on proper, not without yer, Sairey Ann.

But Mr. Lammeter beats 'em all for shapes; you see he holds his head like a sodger, and he isn't so cushiony as most o' the oldish gentlefolks,—they run fat in gineral;—and he's got a fine leg.

And if I don’t, call me a blanked sodger!”

Why, that pretty curled fringe that I and those two sodger Johnnies were eager to die for a little while ago is all over the shop.