Is this a nuns' cloister, where all the gates lie open, and the carls come in and out as if it were a dove-cot?
And would sister Sidonia believe it, sometimes the carls came in bare-legged?
His whole frame trembled meanwhile as an aspen leaf, and he could scarcely wait till the carls clambered over the bundles of goods--"What had happened?
Our two carls nearly died of the fright, and solemnly attested by oath to his Highness the truth of their relation.
Ulrich now told eight of the strongest carls present to step forward and lean their shoulders against the door, but make no stir until he gave a sign; then when he cried "Now!
Ah, never; but in this instance who could tell what the carls in their fright had seen or not seen?
Harthacnut, more savage than his predecessor, dug up his brother's body and flung it into a marsh; while a rising at Worcester against his hus-carls was punished by the burning of the town and the pillage of the shire.
At three the hill seemed won, at six the fight still raged around the Standard where Harold's hus-carls stood stubbornly at bay on a spot marked afterwards by the high altar of Battle Abbey.
Within, the exhaustion which follows a long anarchy gave fresh strength to the Crown, and Cnut's own ruling temper was backed by the force of hus-carls at his disposal.
There are some verbal parallels as well with EP I iii, Ovid's answer to Rufinus' letter of consolation on his exile.
Since the letter of Ulysses is the first one mentioned in the list at Am II xviii 29, it was presumably the first poem in Sabinus' collection of epistles; hence Ovid's use of it here to indicate the entire collection.
But if you are a carls daughter, As I take you to be, How did you get the gay clothing, In green wood ye had on thee?
I wish I had drunk your water, sister, When that I did drink of your wine -, Since for a carls fair daughter, It aye gars me dree all this pine.
If ye be honourable men, ye will grant me refuge among you; Gunnar Headman's house-carls are hunting me to slay me.
There must be ample store of armour at Steyning for them, for your father was followed by forty house-carls when he went with me to the Welsh wars.
For those carls helmets were bought and coats of ringed armour made, and for a month they exercised daily.
He brought with him a Danish fleet, and with his sailors and his house-carls he ruled England as a conquered land.
Marching swiftly northwards with his house-carls and the thegns who joined him on the way, he hastened to their succour.
He raised a Danegeld to satisfy his men, and sent his house-carls to force the people to pay the heavy tax.
It does not please me to hear that," replied Gudrid gravely; "some of our carls are too fond of beer.
Leif was there, and Astrid herself, and all the house-carls in the hall must have heard her, for she spoke very loud.
Have all the house-carls gathered; I will go fetch in our neighbours, and we shall hear what Thorward has to say of this Vinland that we have heard so much about of late.
Take good care not to re-enter this closet after leaving it, for the carls are moving about the hall, and may chance to observe that it is empty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
