Wore the bright day, and it drew toward sunset, and now the carles came straight into the hall by twos and threes, till there were a many within its walls.
The queans were comely and well-eyed; nor was there anything of fierce or evil-looking about either thecarles or the queans, but somewhat grave and solemn of aspect were they.
He had gone off to call his carles together, and to choose his twenty men from the garrison.
I parry, some of these stout carles will slit them for them parlous quick!
And he gave them certain dour strokes on their bodies, for they were strong carles and could bide the like--not like the poor feckless loon of a colleger.
And as to its being an unanimous call, I wad be glad to ken fat business the carles have to call ony thing or ony body but what the Duke and mysell likes!
Weel, I think thae daft carles the magistrates send naebody to Bedlam but me--thae maun hae an unco respect for me, for whenever I am brought to them, thae aye hae me back to Bedlam.
A numerous train of carles and maidens, scared At the shrill sound, slept forth and round them stared.
This is exactly the composition which recent researches of Carles have established for the aromatic principle of vanilla.
Come yecarles of the south country, Now shall we go our kin to see!
Now Hallbiorn's house-carles ride full fast, So many times over comes summer again, Till many a mile of way is past.
Bolli had been early afoot in the morning ordering the men to their work, and had lain down again to sleep when the house-carles went away.
It is also told me that Bolli is staying at the out-dairy in Sælingsdale with no more than the house-carles who are doing the haymaking.
At the moment that the house-carles had unloaded the pack horses Olaf rode into the place.
Sidenote: and prepare to attack Bolli] Halldor said he had heard that Bolli had sent his house-carles from home, some north to Ramfirth to meet a ship and some out to Middlefell strand.
Much at the same time as he arrived his house-carles came home too, and told how their journey had gone anything but smoothly.
Between the mountain slope above and the hill-rise there is a wide meadow called Barni; it was there Bolli's house-carles were working.
All the house-carles of Hoskuld who were yet alive were wounded, and four were killed.
Down amidst the ballast tumbling, Ospakar's shield-carles were rolled.
Hear me, Atli's folk; hear me, carles of Coldback and of Middalhof!
The carles set down the chair upon the floor and went.
But the carles of Ospakar came on to make an end of him.
Rat didst thou call me once, when thou wouldst save Brighteyes from the carles of Ospakar, and as a rat I came and in thy shape I walked the seas.
Middalhof folk and the company of Swanhild; but the carles of Ospakar laid hand on sword--they too knew Eric.
The greatcarles saw the light that played on Whitefire's edge and the other light that burned in Eric's eyes, and terror got hold of them.
Down among the ballast tumbling Ospakar's shield-carles were rolled.
Now it is told that when his thralls and house-carles bore the corpse of Atli the Earl to his hall in Straumey, Swanhild met it and wept over it.
As for the Austrians, they were in their own country when in Galicia.
Its plan was that of Liege--a ring of outer detached forts, constructed on the same armor-clad cupola principle.
When last noted by us, previous to the minor battle of Dinant, it had been formed by forces drawn from the armies of the Duke of Württemberg and crown prince.
Enormous sums had been spent by the Austrians in an attempt to make it impregnable.
The Canopus was never in the action at all, being 150 miles astern.
As the dark night lowered over the scene, they fell back, until, at Jarebitze, they met the first advance guards of the oncoming Serbian main army.
They at once began to augment the natural protection it afforded with their own devices.
Flowers were thrown on their heads from the upper balconies of houses, as they marched through the streets.
The citizens were induced to come forth from their cellars and hiding places to reopen the cafés and shops.
The Russians increased the fury of their attack and it was not long before the entire Austrian army was in retreat.
But the conflict on many fields was being conducted on a scale so huge that it loses much of its importance in a general survey.
The defenses on the north were much stronger than those on the East, where the San River and the fortresses of Jaroslav and Przemysl were once regarded as a secure barrier against Russian advance.
The Second Army, on its part, had pushed steadily on and by night it reached Kremenitza and Barosnevatz.
Preparations were then made for a rapid advance through the Ardennes upon the Central Meuse, to form in order upon the left of Von Bülow's army.
From the latter town he pushed his right wing forward in a northwesterly direction, and sent his center toward the southwest to Johannisburg.
He was never one to bide long at a feast, and he knew, maybe, that the house-carles and younger men would be more at ease when his presence was no longer felt by them.
The ways of a captain of your house-carles are good to me, and I need no more.
Then I took him to the tent which my house-carles had pitched next the king's, where Nunna's should have been, and bade him sit down there.
I do not think that I have ever sat at a feast whereat so few were present at the high table, and there were no house-carles at all.
I was of the court, and here I had my place, and all my life was knit with the ways of the atheling guard and the ordering of the house-carles under Owen.
We left a new steward in the great half-stone and half-timber house, with house-carles enough to see that none harmed either him or the place, and so came back to Norton.
And a captain of the king's house-carles will always look to be rewarded for service with lands.
And with no more ceremony he came to where I and the two house-carles yet stood, and looked and laughed a little to himself as he did so.
They took no account of the few house-carles we might have with us, and even I knew nought of the crossing of the armed Danish ship with us, which was planned so that it came as a pleasant surprise to us all.
Now, my father looked round at the men and saw that all the house-carles and one or two from the village were in the courtyard, fifteen of them altogether, besides himself and Owen.
Two of the house-carles led him up, and his face had as black a scowl on it as I had ever seen, and he looked sullenly at us.
With that I took the men straightway to the king, bidding the house-carles hold their peace awhile.
I have heard, my King, of house-carles who led their masters, but that is not our way.
To your seats, my friends, for there can be no more danger; and let the house-carles see to the man.
My old nurse was the only woman in the house, for the married house-carles lived in the village, and I daresay she slept through it all in her own loft.
Early this noticed The clever carles who as comrades of Hrothgar {The waters are gory.
Still, the Morris managed to survive urban disdain--was still dear to the carles whose fathers had taught it them.
Happy carles danced it to the glory of God, even as it had erst been danced to the glory of Allah.
With the great earls, the house-carles probably exercised the same functions; but in the ordinary acceptation of the word in families of lower rank, house- carle was a domestic servant.
House-carles in the royal court were the body-guard, mostly, if not all, of Danish origin.
The carles and the cart-avers make it all, and the carles and the cart-avers eat it all, and the deil clink doun with it!
The twa iron carles yonder, at the kirk beside the Port, were just banging out sax o' the clock.
Scarce had these words fallen from Tostig's lips, when the chief of his Danish house-carles came in, and announced the arrival of a bode from England.
With the great earls, the house-carles probably exercised the same functions; but in the ordinary acceptation of the word in families of lower rank, house-carle was a domestic servant.
For this land is nought and narrow, and Kings of the carles are these.
After that he called on his two brothers to go with him, and three house-carles as well.
Thrain had fifteen house-carles trained to arms in his house, and eight of them rode with him whithersoever he went.
Then Glum said to Thiostolf, "Go thou up on the fell with my house-carles and see if ye cannot find out anything about the sheep.
My friend Mr Carles was a kind and indulgent companion, bearing good-naturedly with my boyish pranks, and cautioning me, of course ineffectually, against running into danger.
Mr Carles soon obtained from his own lips confirmation of the horrible deed, which he excused by saying that most of his relations had died before he ate them.
Mr Carles and I travelled together in the guide's boat; Mr and Mrs Gowley in another; and Mr Rob in a third by himself.
So then he thrust his skiff into the sea on an evening whenas there were but twocarles standing by; for there would often be a score or two of folk.
So then they got to horse and rode down the dale toward the haven, and the carles rode with them, so that of weaponed men they were a score in company.
Then the maidens stay The light-hung sley, And the shuttles bide By the blue web's side, While hand in hand With the carlesthey stand.
Then flew the fiddle-bows and twanged the harps, and the carles and queens stood forth on the floor; and all the women were clad in black raiment, albeit embroidered with knots and wreaths of flowers.
There without more ado the carles took the elder from the litter and bore him aboard, and Hallblithe followed him as if he had been so appointed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
