This truce enabled the guardian to march southward with his army, in order to oppose an invasion, which the Earl of Leicester, at the head of a great body of Flemings, had made upon Suffolk.
Proclaiming that they wished only to free the king from evil councillors, Gloucester, Warwick, Arundel, Nottingham, and the young Henry of Bolingbroke marched on London with a great body of retainers.
When they began to assemble by night in St. Martin's fields, outside the gates of London, he came suddenly upon them with a great body of horse, and scattered them all.
In August, 1653, a great body of officers petitioned Cromwell, as their chief, to insist on the Commons dissolving themselves.
The money thus received was used to hire a great body of mercenary men-at-arms, whom the king knew to be both more obedient and more efficient soldiers than the unruly feudal levies.
I was at once on my guard, and replied to him, that after I reached Carlton, which was the place appointed, I would meet the Indians wherever the great body of them desired it.
I talked for many days with the great body of the Indians here but you refused to meet me; the others and I understood each other.
In Red River, where I came from, and where there is a great body of Half-breeds, they must be either white or Indian.
It was sufficiently capacious to contain a great body of men, who would come together to have their causes determined.
There be that behind us which has the appearance of a great body of pursuers.
We were having a merry time of it, we two, when a great body of Issus' own guards were ordered into the arena.
It is a great body of mounted men," he said, "and they are travelling at high speed.
This was presently told to the king's captain of the temple, who came running with a great body of soldiers, and caught about forty of the young men, and brought them to the king.
Quite apart, however, from his reports, sufficient evidence can be adduced from the episcopal and official letters and documents to show that the change was not welcomed by a great body in the country.
A great bodyof the English noblemen still held the old faith.
As such a sacrilegious innovation was resented by a great body of both clergy and people, the council felt it necessary to instruct the sheriff of Middlesex to enforce the commands of the bishop.
Gathering a great body of workmen from all parts of Denmark, she set them to building a wall of defense from forty-five to seventy-five feet high and eight miles long, crossing from water to water on the east and west.
At noon the castle gates were thrown open and a great body of armed soldiers marched out, placing themselves in two long lines which reached from the castle to the town hall.
When the thing, or assembly, was called into session, a great body of the people were present, for never had so important a question been laid before them.
Around these gathered a great body of the people, now permitted to leave their houses.
And when he had got a great body of men together, he passed the Humber, and wasted the provinces on each side of it.
Now, their King relied strongly upon a great bodyof cross-bowmen from Genoa; and these he ordered to the front to begin the battle, on finding that he could not stop it.
In this splendid state, at the head of a great body of troops escorting provisions of all kinds for the starving inhabitants of Orleans, she appeared before that beleaguered city.
He had to turn and fight a great body of Welsh and Irish first, who worried his advance.
Guyot had brought forward a great body of new facts in support of the original doctrine of Charpentier, that the Alpine glaciers once reached as far as the Jura and that they had deposited thereon a portion of their moraines.
She passed me and seated herself on the lounge, leaving me to stand like a lout before her, ashamed of my youth and of the clumsiness of my great body.
What transmutes them into that wealth, if not the skill and the touch of the men who go daily to their toil and who constitute the great body of the American people?
Moreover, we already have a great body of laws, both statutory and customary, and a great body of judicial decisions as to the meaning and effect of existing laws.
The governmental institutions of Great Britain have been established by the growth through many centuries of a great body of accepted rules and customs which, taken together, are called the British Constitution.
Many a time a great body of Norman troops would take to flight and leave all their baggage behind them, upon merely hearing the shout of "Hereward for England!
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