Noun
A body of soldiers; soldiers, collectivelly; the military.
Military service.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOur country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any America-because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race. Chesty Puller
The unpurged images of day recede The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong. William Butler Yeats
The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night walkers' song After great cathedral gong; A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains All that man is, All mere complexities, The fury and the mire of human veins. William Butler Yeats
Alongside this, these contemporary sources present Caracalla as a 'soldier-emperor' for his preference of the soldiery over the senators, a depiction which would have made him even less popular with the senatorial biographers. Source: Internet
Ayton, "The Battle of Crécy: Context and Significance" in Ayton & Preston (2005), pp. 25-26 Although considered to be heavy, no reliable figures exist for losses among the common French soldiery. Source: Internet
He advanced into Italy at the head of a licentious and rough soldiery, and Rome became the scene of riot and massacre, gladiatorial shows and extravagant feasting. Source: Internet