Three times they forced the marshmen to retreat, but as often these bold fellows rallied and came back to their works.
Denmark, to be joined to Holstein, but the marshmen declared that they were not subjects of Denmark and would not be given and taken at its king's will.
It was the depth of winter, cold, bitter weather, and as the army was on its march from Meldorf to Hejde the advance guard suddenly found itself in face of a line of earthworks which the marshmen had thrown up in front of a dike.
The marshmen fought like their fathers of old for their much-valued liberty, and the knights found they had no cravens to deal with.
Some of theMarshmen fell, and several were wounded.
It would have seemed less lonely had one watched us, but I did not know then that no pity for the wrecked need be looked for from the marshmen of the Lindsey shore.
When he saw that, Sigurd, who was a man of many fights, said that we had better send the marshmen round to fall on the wings of the foe, while we went straight for the centre of the line in the wedge formation that the Viking loves.
But when we spoke with them we could learn nothing, for they were Welsh marshmenwho knew but little of the tongue of their English masters.
It had been done by the marshmen in the dark hours of the morning, and from across the stream I saw Alsi's men staring at the new force that they thought had come to help us.
The Spanish marshmen say flamingoes "live on mud," and truly an examination of their crops appears to confirm this.
A score cottages right on the bank of the river, occupied by labourers and marshmen and their families, had been swept clean away, with what destruction of life could not then be known.
The riot had now changed into open mutiny among these marshmen and miners.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marshmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
