Soldier-like

Such was the amiable Frenchman for whom I felt that perfect friendship, that soldier-like fraternity, which we are only capable of in our youth, before we are alive to feelings of rivalship, before irrevocable courses, furrow and divide the field of futurity.

She curtsied at seeing two tall soldier-like gentlemen before her.

Jason’s dad, unlike his own, was a soldier-like man, precise, on time, sharp-eyed.