Once or twice the letters did not reach their destination, and it was said that some of the wild hillmen had pounced on the postman and carried off his bag.
The costume of thehillmen and peasants is the same as that worn by the Khyberi Pathans, which I have described.
The Afghan hillmen and the Hazaras make these, and they are good shots with them.
His bundle lay by him, and the long curved kind of sickle that the hillmen used to cut grass with was stuck in his girdle, showing that he had not had time to draw it to strike one blow in his defence.
He writes of it: "It lives in clefts in the rocks and hollow trees, and is said to hoard ears of grain and roots, seldom comes into the native huts, and in that particular neighbourhood the hillmen told me they are very numerous.
The Hillmen prayed, and King stared, trying to memorize all that had been.
She has discovered that he plans to make himself an emperor in these Hills, and to sell Hillmeninto slavery!
There is no doubt whatever that the general went back to Peshawur in the train at eight o'clock and that the Rangar went with him in a separate compartment with about a dozen Hillmen chosen from among those who had come down with King.
After a time King urged his horse to a jog-trot, and the five Hillmen pattered in his wake, huddled so close together that the horse could easily have kicked more than one of them.
I imagine her best way to manage Hillmen is to keep promises, and they say she promised them.
But of course he was not very cordial to King, considering his disguise; and he chose to keep the Hillmen in doubt yet as to their eventual reception.
Then suddenly the two Hillmen shuddered, although King did not bat an eyelid.
A force composed of the 9th and 51st Regiments, and two companies of the 4th Rifle Brigade, with Royal Engineers, Artillery, and Indian regiments, was therefore sent against the hillmen under the command of Generals Keyes and Ross.
I have found plenty of merchants who would promise to finance revolt, and plenty of hillmen who would promise anything.
The Afridi, Yasmini, and three hillmen who were there by invitation.
But there came a day when the rings of talk had reached the hills, and hillmen came to Delhi to hear more, as they ever have come since India was India.
In the mean time, corps of Punjaubies and Hillmen should be raised for general service.
Into such corps none but Seiks, Juts, Goojurs, Gwalas, Mussulmans, and Hillmen should be enlisted.
Tibet, the Bengal Government said, was a well-regulated country with which our Hillmen were in constant communication.
Look, there must be quite a few hillmen in this city.
Would the hillmen believe the stories about your brother in the face of your personal denial before their own council?
And what could the hillmen do against the weapons of the plains?
The hillmen would be of her own people--Kulu or Kangra folk.
The other half were duffle-clad, felt-hatted hillmen of the North: and that mixture told its own tale, even if he had not overheard the incessant sparring between the two divisions.
He dashed to the fire, where he found the lama already surrounded by dishes of food, the hillmen visibly adoring him and the Southerners looking sourly.
Next day, in the forest road near Rishikes, I came across a string of hillmen bowed down under heavy loads of firewood, which they had been cutting in the hills near to sell for a few pice in the bazaar.
It was a Friday morning, when thousands of the hillmen come in to the weekly fair, and the bazaars are full of a shouting, jostling throng, the murmur of which reaches even the schoolroom.
From behind the barrier, and around the lip of the great trap, the hillmen fired their hardest into the seething mass of soldiers and followers writhing in the awful Gehenna on which the calm moon shone down.
They were met firmly by the bayonet, but again and again the hillmen renewed their attacks; and it was not till after five hours of hard fighting which cost them heavy loss, that at length, in the darkness, they suddenly drew off.
Tears came to the eyes of both Englishmen at the sight of such loyal devotion, and they endeavoured to dissuade, but the little hillmen insisted.
The Gurkhas trotted towards him with bared knives, and though the Mohammedan still held his loaded musket the little hillmen never hesitated.
Not with the machine, but we came across a lot ofhillmen marching south, and they potted the major in the arm, and riddled the petrol cans, so that I ran short.
I tried to induce them to hand them over when I engaged them, but in these regions the hillmen are as tenacious of their guns as our sailors are of their knives.
This wanton destruction was committed chiefly in the interests of the tobacco monopoly, but also in order to force the hillmen to come down and reside in the towns.
In appearance they are darker than any other of the hillmen of Luzon.
They stood still, as they saw the swineherd and the two hillmen rise from near the well, and move slowly across the glade.
It belongs to the hillmen of the north-west, of whom a few years agone we made slaves.
We are no nobles, but a swineherd, and two hillmen who are bondagers to Cairbre of the Three Duns.
And it must be remembered that, though they were only a fraction of the nation, the hillmen were a very resolute and harassing fraction, and kept the western counties in a state of turmoil.
When she was among men who spoke of those hillmen as if they were vermin to be trapped, and as if no one had breeding or honor or intelligence or sincerity except the Cavaliers, she was again goaded into opposition.
There would be little cause for precaution; no one need fear a rescue, for the hillmen would be there in thousands with the other Whigs, to feast their eyes upon his shame, and cheer his death.
I hope mine will not bring me again to Paisley Castle, where I am, as the hillmen would say, 'a stumbling-block and an offence.
There was not time to gather the hillmen together, and there was no heart in the others to face this desperate man and his body-guard.
This was what the hillmen were saying among themselves as they gathered in their meetings and communed together in their lodgings.
The hillmen would laugh when they heard of it, and the Conventicles would rejoice together.
As usual he would be one of a beaten party, or perhaps might stand alone; it was not his friends but his enemies who were calling him to Edinburgh, and the chances were that the hillmen would settle their account with him by assassination.
The Hillmen had seated themselves a hundred yards off, while the leaders were debating, and they now rose curiously and watched Bradley, as he sank upon one knee, and covered the goat with his rifle.
The Opekians and the Hillmen fell on their knees, or to dancing, as best suited their sense of relief, but Gordon shook his head.
The Hillmen had stopped about two hundred yards off, and were drawn up in two lines, shouting, and dancing, and hurling taunting remarks at their few adversaries.
You just go hunt up old Messenwah and the Hillmen with your standing army once and you'll get all the fighting you want.
They are quite content if the Hillmen satisfy themselves with the outlying huts, as long as they leave them and the town alone; so they seldom come to close quarters.
The Hillmen are the natives that live up there in the hills," Stedman said, nodding his head toward the three high mountains at the other end of the island, that stood out blackly against the purple, moonlit sky.
He was one hundred and fifty yards from the Hillmen before they made out what he said, and then one of the young braves, resenting it as an insult to his chief, shot an arrow at him.
The Hillmen were about forty in number, and were as savage and ugly-looking giants as any in a picture-book.
And when the Hillmencome down to pay their quarterly visit, they'll go back again on a run.
So when the herd swept down upon the assailants all the hillmen escaped.
The fort was practically a block of fortified stone barracks, easily defensible against attacks of badly armed hillmen and accommodating a couple of hundred sepoys.
The Hillmen were about forty in number, and were as savage and ugly-looking giants as any in a picture book.
The Hillmen are the natives that live up there in the hills," Stedman said, nodding his head towards the three high mountains at the other end of the island, that stood out blackly against the purple, moonlit sky.
You just go hunt up old Messenwah and the Hillmen with your standing army once, and you'll get all the fighting you want.
Indeed, it may have been due to the influence of the northern hillmen in the early Assyrian period, that Ashur was developed as a father god--a Baal.
Tiglath-pileser first invaded Mitanni, where he routed a combined force of Shubari hillmen and Hittites.
He is a young Irishman whose first fighting was against the hillmen in their uprisings in India.
One of Jahi's hillmen reported that no trace of Rouse could be found.
Carver shouted a hoarse order to Jahi, who dashed away with his hillmen to the point where the ship was about to ground.
Time after time your excellency wrote him concerning piracies, hillmen raids, and head-hunting committed in his residency or the adjoining seas.
In a few days' time the Pathans spotted a party of three hillmenlying up for the convoy.
She lived in the country, not far from the hills where the little Hillmen stayed.
The Hillmenwere fairy folk, kin to the elves and in appearance somewhat like the brownies.
The Hillmen are tidy little folk and very nimble with a job of tinkering.
We trusted ourselves wholly to Nicol's guidance, for he knew the ways as he knew his own name, and had a wide acquaintance with the hillmen and their hiding-places.
I had heard of the place before, and knew it for the Cor Water, a stream famous for trout, and at this time, no less renowned among the hillmen as a hiding-place.
It is for you I fear, for what must you do save go to the hills and hide like the hillmen in caves and peatbogs?
But the hillmen adopt it rather from a natural propensity, than from military knowledge.
The Afridi and Pathan companies of the Guides, uttering shrill cries of exultation, culminating in an extraordinary yell, dashed forward, climbed the hill as only hillmen can climb, and cleared the crest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hillmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
