The Old Brigade

What brought home the bacon on these occasions, said Tipton, was team spirit and that shoulder–to–shoulder stuff. There was a song, he added, about the Boys of the Old Brigade, which illustrated what he had in mind.

Full Moon. Chapter 3

Both Phoebe and Albert, having passed the night at the sick bed, were looking in need of rest and repose, but their morale was high, and they gazed at each other tenderly, like two boys of the old brigade who have been standing shoulder to shoulder.

Cocktail Time. Chapter 14

Spreading the light in England had its attractions, but he always longed to be back in the pulsating center of the dog biscuit world, standing shoulder to shoulder with Bream Rockmeteller and the rest of them like the boys of the Old Brigade.

Plum Pie. 9 Life with Freddie

He and Horace had become, as it were, linked by imperishable memories like boys of the old brigade who have stood steadily shoulder to shoulder.

[...] It was not, he considered, the way one boy of the old brigade should behave towards another boy of the brigade after a night of standing shoulder to shoulder, and if he had been asked at that moment to sum up Horace Appleby in a few words, he would have described him as a fat callous inesensitive slob.

Do Butlers Burgle Banks?. Chapter 15

He, Crispin and Chippendale were allies, as closely linked together as those boys of the Old Brigade who stood steadily shoulder to shoulder, and he did not consider that it was asking too much of an ally to suggest that he should push a policeman into a brook.

The Girl in Blue. Chapter 13.II

There was a bond between her and Dolly, for last night they had stood shoulder to shoulder like the boys of the Old Brigade, or would have so stood if they had been able to find the foe they were standing against, but she was not particularly fond of Soapy.

Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin. Chapter 10.I