The hardened campaigner stood the test as only a man of abnormal physique and body trained to privations could have stood it.
Jim was too old a campaigner to put these even in the coat on which he was asleep.
Jim was too old a campaigner to make a wild rush at his quarry and thus run a chance of losing him in the shuffle.
Next he saddled Demijohn and two of the pack horses, then lay down and slept in earnest, as an old campaigner snatches at rest.
Campaigner in an unfamiliar country, he had informed himself, and it was with confidence that he led his little party into the bridlepath.
They were walking together, and though Lottie was of course chatting away as flippantly as ever, yet both Markham and Mr. Glaston was very silent, she saw, and her conclusions were as rapid as those of an accustomed campaigner should be.
Seeing it now as she had often seen it in the days at the Indian station, the poor old campaigner sat down on a tin uniform-case and burst into tears.
I am too old a campaigner to have any qualms, and in such a case as this the act is justified.
Any old campaigner may be a tolerable barber, and I was a pretty good one.
If anybody thinks that an old campaigner is making much of a very slight accident, I shall ask him to remember the circumstances under which it occurred.
But Douglas was too old a campaigner to lose control of himself, and no doubt the rude charge and counter-charge were prompted less by personal ill-will than by controversial exigencies.
He was a far more resourceful campaigner than his older rival.
With the steadiness of an old campaigner the captain did not so much as wince, but continued his attack with still more savage energy.
But Aglionby was too old a campaigner to cry off so easily.
He sat silent after that, and as there seemed nothing that a curst oldcampaigner could say at such a pass, I bore him company.
They say an army goes upon its belly, but an old campaigner will tell you that you can march a soldier till he be too thin to cast a shadow if only he hath ease of his footgear.
The tough old campaigner laughed grimly; he took it as a high compliment.
I fear I interrupted your fencing lesson; but my stay in Chatteries is very short, and I was anxious to make myself known to my old fellow-campaigner Captain Costigan, and to see a lady nearer who had charmed me so much from the stage.
That is one of the prime requisites of the campaigner upon the plains.
There was one little incident which may seem very small, but the old campaigner will see that it was big with importance.
The raw recruit or amateur campaigner plumes himself on a night passed upon straw in a barn.
In turn she made him of her mother tell, And aye a tear dropped on her needlework; And all his wars the old campaigner told.
Judkins's help was by no means to be despised, however, and with the resources of an old campaigner he showed them marvels.
A remarkable feature about the place was the entire absence of timber, which I noticed at once with the apprehension of an old campaigner who knew the value of a supply of fuel and the horrible discomfort of being without it.
The same might be said of a portable dressing-case and its contents, bought for me in Vienna by a brother ex-soldier, and designed by an old Continental campaigner to be perfection itself.
The writer could go on for many more pages, giving advice to travelers in the wilderness, of varying degrees of usefulness, and mainly drawn from his own experience as a frontier campaigner years and years ago.
The personal outfit of a campaigner in the wilderness is not very elaborate.
A veteran campaigner begged me to announce it as fifty, but I refused.
I think your Royal Highness may be pleased to hear even the humble opinion of an old campaigner like myself about how well the Army Hospital Service was managed in the late terrible war.
The spirit of an old campaigner revived in Miss Nightingale as she read of stirring deeds, whether earlier in South Africa or now in Egypt.
Fearfully he gazes on this gaunt campaigner of destiny, delivering his unspoken message by deed and bearing and duty done, through storm and danger, indifferent to bribe and threat.
As an old campaigner he rises from sleep without recoil or startled look at the cloaked figure standing with ink and paper at the table in the center of the room.
You do not seem to have done it very well," the younger and more scientific campaigner observed coldly.
Her attitude towards her daughter was that of an old campaigner who, having done well in a bygone time, has the good sense to recognise the deeper science of a modern warfare, being quite content with a small command in the rear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "campaigner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
