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Bozo The Neoclown says: morning soldier-boy, i agree, time to end corporate welfare. time to take away the tax breaks corporations like exxon mobil enjoy
Think Progress » Bachmann: ‘We’re hoping that President Obama’s policies don’t succeed.’ 2010
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Hey, here's what's left of your soldier-boy son, folks--hold on, a minute, we git that Amurican flag back, that ain't yours.
Swift Boats Are in the Water Again The Daily Growler 2006
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The eyes of the soldier-boy, who had oftentimes tenderly and lovingly gazed upon the war-worn and faded flag floating over the ranks, now saw it not.
Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers
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I shall not attempt to describe his tearful, joyful meeting with his mother and three sisters, and the pride of the good old father as he folded his soldier-boy to his heart.
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Fourteen years after the war, while visiting in a neighboring county, I was introduced to a Reverend Mr. Randolph, and, seeing the resemblance to the soldier-boy, I asked him about Sharpsburg, recalling the incident, and found he was the lad.
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson Edward A. Moore
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Such nobility of character and such a generous nature as that displayed by this officer, must ever remain a living monument to true greatness; and should these lines perchance meet his eyes, let him know and feel the proud satisfaction that the remembrance of his noble deed is gratefully cherished, and forever engraved in the heart of the soldier-boy in gray.
Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers
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The position assigned him is unnatural, and the modern soldier-boy will be apt to conclude that nobody but a simpleton would be likely to wander about in solitary places, extemporizing in measured sentences; besides it is hard work, as I know from experience.
The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty
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Be it Arlington House, the seedy palace of a Virginia Don, -- be it the humbler, but seedy, pavilion where the tired Teuton washes the dust of Washington away from his tonsils, -- each must surrender to the bold soldier-boy.
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A big Irish soldier-boy got hold of Sheridan's hand and pulled him out of the carriage.
Fifty Years of Public Service Shelby M. Cullom
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His heart was so tender that he would dismount from his horse in a forest to replace in their nest young birds which had fallen by the roadside; he could not sleep at night if he knew that a soldier-boy was under sentence of death; he could not, even at the bidding of duty or policy, refuse the prayer of age or helplessness in distress.
Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker
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