Citations:mercenary


 * 1599 — .  - Act IV, Scene VII.
 * To sort our nobles from our common men.
 * For many of our princes--woe the while!--
 * Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood;
 * So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs


 * 1756 — Q. Statorius. Journal of the Proceedings and Debates in the Political Club.  (link)
 * A standing army of mercenary troops always, at last, begin to look upon themselves as the masters of that country where they are kept up; and after the body of the people have been rendered dastardly and effeminate, which is the never-failing consequence of a total disuse of arms, such an army will no longer submit to the civil power, than till they find a general who has art and conduct enough to unite them under his influence.


 * Nov. 25, 2015 — Emily B. Hager and Mark Mazzetti. The .  Emirates Secretly Sends Colombian Mercenaries to Yemen Fight.
 * The United Arab Emirates has secretly dispatched hundreds of Colombian mercenaries to Yemen to fight in that country’s raging conflict, adding a volatile new element in a complex proxy war that has drawn in the United States and Iran.