In the end the pest would have carried me to death, as a jackal carries the broken meats to his den, if our hillsmen had not come.
Even as he spoke the hillsmen gave the word, and two score men ran down behind the rocks, mounted, and were instantly away by the road that led to the Koongat Bridge.
For an hour I fought, and five of them I killed and seven wounded, and then at the shouts of our hillsmen they fled at last.
The hillsmen clove the besiegers through like a piece of pasteboard, and turning, rode back again through the broken ranks, their battle-call ringing high above the clash of steel.
It went abroad through the city that Pango Dooni and Cumner paid great homage to the dead Dakoon, and the dread of the hillsmen grew less.
A hundred hillsmen rode before, and a hundred behind, and between were two thousand soldiers of Mandakan on foot and fifty of the late Dakoon's body-guard mounted and brilliant in scarlet and gold.
Pango Dooni had carefully picked the hillsmen whom he had sent to the Bazaar, and their captain was the most fearless and the wariest fighter from the Neck of Baroob, save Pango Dooni himself.
The hillsmen rode upon the frenzied rebels, and were swallowed up by the great mass of them, so that they seemed lost.
As they passed the Path by the Bazaar every eye among the hillsmen and among the handful of British was alert.
A few hundred native troops and a handful of hillsmen rode up and down, and at the Residency fifty men kept guard under command of Sergeant Doolan of the artillery--his superior officers and the rest of his comrades were at the Palace.
On the stone is written the countersign that all hillsmen heed, and the tribe-call I know also.
The Hillsmen had paid greater honour to their heroic foes than to the bravest of their own brave dead.
They were outnumbered, seven to one; but when the last of the English soldiers lay dead, twice their number of Hillsmen lay dead around them!
It is difficult for the Oriental mind to believe that a man of a race other than theirs is braver than they—and the hillsmen of Central Asia have little cause to believe it.
Here was the last refuge of the hillsmen if they should ever be driven from the Neck of Baroob.
At the Residency another thousand men encamped, with a hundred hillsmen and eighty English, under the command of Tang-a-Dahit and McDermot.
He led the hillsmen by the secret way into the Palace yard.
All day the people watched from afar, and all day long soldiers and hillsmen drew a wide cordon of quarantine round the house.
Now the Kurds were a wild and valiant race of hillsmen dwelling among the rocks, bold men who ceased to long for battle only when vultures picked their carcasses; so Menon and his army journeyed forth and laboured unto that end.
Scouts who had been sent out to search for abreks had come upon several hillsmen some six miles from the village.
Sashka B---fights with the Russians or the hillsmen against him.
The best weapons are obtained from the hillsmen and the best horses are bought, or stolen, from them.
Although the hillsmen save some breath in this way, they waste a good deal by inserting sounds where they do not belong.
By way of compensation the hillsmen sometimes insert a euphonic r where it has no business; just as many New Englanders say, "The idear of it!
The earth did ne'er imprison Those hillsmen brave and free, The sky alone should cover The warriors of Trukkee.
The lawless hillsmen had come down and brought their cowardly custom of ambush with them.
And in the dark of the first moon of that century the shadowy hillsmen were getting ready to swoop down.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hillsmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
