That was wise counsel, and we left our arms in a baggage wagon, borrowing frocks from thechurls who followed us, and only keeping our seaxes in our belts.
But when Martin Lightfoot died, no man has said; for no man in those days took account of such poor churls and running serving-men.
I never doubted that; but it makes me mad--as it does all Eastern and Northern men--to hear these Wessex churls and Godwinssons calling themselves all England.
I looked only at the village churls and wove my web to fit their unworthy shoulders, and forgot how high is the stature of a perfect prince!
There the river eddy whirls, And the surly village churls And the red cloaks of market-girls Pass onward from Shalott.
And yet this riddle can be read but one way: My son hath taken the sword to win that, with strength like a man, which churls would keep him from with the words that frighten children.
You, Harry Waakfelt, showed me to-day how the Saxon churls fight; I show you now how the Highland Dunnie-wassel fights.
Down goes Wenlock's pennon," said Genvil, "and the churls enter the barricades on all points.
The English churls will fight like devils upon it--let them be furnished with mighty ale along with their beef and brown bread.
I counsel thee certainly, thou lord, that, thou work in such wise with thy churls that they rather love thee than dread thee.
The concluding lines may therefore be cited here:-- Think also that of the same seed of whichchurls spring, of the same seed spring lords; as well may the churl be saved as the lord.
And now that I am accoutred, away to the churls and admit them.
I will tell you, however, fairly, that these churls are acquiring better knowledge in the art of war than the best Ritter knight.
For as for these churls of chapmen, and the sworders whom they wage, they know not the name of their mother's mother, nor have heard one word of the beginner of their kindred; and their deeds are like unto their kinlessness.
FN#236] May Allah put to shame all churlsand all who take folks's goods and are niggardly with them!
Here I stand ready to receive you, whether ye come singly, as the rule of knighthood demands, or all together, as is the custom with churls like you.
And so Arthur rode a soft pace till it was day, and then was he ware of three churls chasing Merlin, and would have slain him.
Not one of the house-churls showed his face in the hall that evening; they slunk about the farm, in the stables and sheds, frightened and trembling.
In the meantime the churls had come up, armed indeed, but not knowing how to use the weapons, and in a condition of too great terror to use them to any purpose.
So on a moonshiny night Thorwald got three of his churls and they rowed Grettir and the two who went with him over.
Grettir seized the casque and spear, girded on the sword and dashed into the yard, begging the woman to send the churls after him.
The churls who fight Bring axes white, With curds and whey made gory.
Mary, had the churls laid finger on thee, I should have scattered their brains with my crucifix.
Natheless, did I hang over such a skin of Rhenish as this, and three churls sat beneath a drinking it and offered me not a drop I'd soon be down among them.
For there the Saxon Duke Godric lorded it over his churls and swineherds; his iron rule at the Conquest replaced by that of the Marshalls, and later the Talbots, alike stern and severe.
Give your island churls a taste of kingship, as we know it in France.
No wonder that churlsand yeomen wax so presumptuous as even to lay leaguer before castles, and that clowns and swineherds send defiances to nobles, since men-at-arms have turned sick men's nurses.
If these [v]churls abide the shaking of my standard, I will give them credit for the boldest outlaws that ever bent bow in greenwood.
Only our loves let not such rich churls gain: 'Tis well if some wench for the poor remain.
Now that you have a moment to spare from the high-born folk, it is the wish of us churls to hear some of your news.
Did you learn naught from the palisade that gave way because churls paid me their service when and how they would?
There had been, it seemed, a most desperate and bloody revolt of the churls on the lands of Sir Hugh DeLancey, some ten leagues to the south of us.
And if thou'lt look abroad through our camp, thou'lt see some thousands of those samechurls and yeomen that do risk their lives in this cause as much as thou or me.
The frontmost of the churls who bore the brush and sacks, when they had cast their loads into the ditch, turned and ran back to the edge of the wood whence they presently returned with fresh supplies.
I see little use in these changes, save to pamperchurls and thralls that too often already raise their heads with complaints and demands.
Surrounding the churls who acted as ram-bearers, and running as best they might in their heavy armor, was a group of knights and squires, led by the savage old graybeard of Carleton.
Two huge stones, hurled by Alan, the armorer, from the battlements above, came down on the heads of the luckless churls in the moat and helped to scatter the scanty footing.
Tis of a piece with the insolence of the churlson Grimsby's lands, who would have a magistrate of their own choosing forsooth, to try their causes withal--reaching up to snatch the reins of governing from their lawful masters.
Mayhap it will not seem to him quite fitting that one who holds his lands in fee should with deceit and with violence shelter misdoing churls from their lawful masters.
Churls and thralls, thanes and sethcundmen, all alike had gone, fleeing.
Little did Guthrun and his companion know the stout hearts of the West Saxons; for those very threats only made the churls sullenly defiant, and determined that in no case would they betray their King, did they chance to meet with him.
But if the brave old mould is broke, And end in churls the mountain folk In tavern cheer and tavern joke, Sink, O mountain, in the swamp!
Your rank is all reversed; let men or cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls: They are the doctors of the wilderness, And we the low-prized laymen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "churls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
