Illustration: Ralph Granville and the pikeman were locked in an unyielding embrace, and, before I could prevent the catastrophe, Ralph was dragged through the embrasure and disappeared.
Then, directly everything was quiet, he emerged from his hiding-place, dragged the still insensible pikemanto the postern, and regained the shelter of the walls.
So saying, he refolded the missive, giving it to a pikeman to deliver to Chaloner at the Governor's house.
With the shock of the sudden plunge the pikeman had relaxed his grip, and, weighted down by his armour and accoutrements, he would have surely been drowned had not Ralph held on to him and dragged his senseless body to the edge of the moat.
The banner of the Markhams still proudly floated over the tower, the drawbridge was still guarded by a pikeman in the Markham livery, and the smoke still floated upwards from the kitchen chimneys in the keen autumnal air.
In the Imperial army the pay, exclusive of food, was nine gulden to the pikeman and six to the musketeer.
In short, I have during my life seen many sharp encounters, but seldom found that a pikeman ever caused the death of any one.
With which satisfactory reply Grant rejoined Charles Linchmore, and they left the 'pikeman singing a drunken song, and vainly trying to shut the gate, the opening of which had previously so baffled his endeavours.
Matthew the Pikeman hadn't no time scarce to eat his victuals, let alone take a drop.
To Franz the pikeman had at once become extremely interesting, as he perceived that this was the very Friend, to whom the Goblin in the Castle of Rummelsburg had consigned him.
Seeing him run off, the Pikeman and Mill-turner jumped up quickly and ran after him, but Peppercorn called them back and told them to finish their dinners first, for there would be plenty of time to catch him after they had dined!
The next morning the Pikeman and the Mill-turner went to see if all was right round about the city, and Peppercorn remained to roast the ox.
On the way, as they were going, they discussed which of the three should venture down first, and it was at last settled that the Pikeman should be let down.
The bee and fly instantly gave him what he required, and he dressed himself and rode off to the field, where he found the Pikeman proudly awaiting any one who might presume to accept his challenge.
The Pikeman said, 'I think I will stay here and take care of the meat, and I will have dinner ready for you when you come back from looking after the fence.
By-and-by Peppercorn and thePikeman came for their dinners and asked angrily where the meat was.
Just, however, as the Pikemanthought the ox was well roasted he was frightened by the sudden approach of a man with a forehead a yard high and a beard a span long.
Just as the Pikemanand the Mill-turner began to pull up the rope the princess gave Peppercorn a little box, saying, 'Open it when you have need of anything!
Hearing this, Peppercorn and the Pikeman told him who they were, and proposed that he should join them in their travels about the world.
Now the Pikeman and Mill-turner came up and were exceedingly glad to find their dinners safe.
So Peppercorn and the Pikeman fought, and before very long the first son-in-law of the king was slain.
Twice the Dark Master himself led them, snarling with baffled rage, but the first time a pikeman thrust him down and the second time Cathbarr's ax glanced from his helm.
Brian went at them with a shout, thrust one man through the body, sent a second back with his bare fist, and as the third man struck down at him a pikeman transfixed the man before the blow could fall.
It must be noted, however, that not all the mercenaries were heavy cavalry; the Brabancon pikeman and the Italian crossbowman (the value of whose weapon was universally recognized) often formed part of a feudal army.
Not far from the body of the Norman lay his companion Callot, who was the pikeman despatched by the bellicose aubergiste.
I dare say he would run from a stuffed pikeman in an old hall.
A pikeman in an orange tunic dragged the baby from its mother's arms, tossed it in the air, and caught it on the end of his pike, spitting it.
The pikeman thrust the steel point in low enough to miss the breastbone but high enough to pierce the heart.
The English archer and the Swiss pikeman represented these two great forms of military efficiency in their simplest and most elementary shapes.
The normal equipment of the pikeman or halberdier was therefore light, consisting of a steel-cap and breastplate alone.
When the pikeman and the swordsman first met in 1502, under the walls of Barletta, the old problem of Pydna and Cynoscephalae was once more worked out.
While I have one pikeman to my back, one sou in my pouch, I fight my cause.
A mob of armed men hurled itself around the corner, a pikemanwith lowered point in the van.
The day being Friday, we delayed not to eat, but straightway mounted the two nags that a sunburnt Béarn pikeman had brought to the door.
There is many a wealthy business house now in England which can trace its rise to the thrift and honesty of some simple pikeman of Ireton or Cromwell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pikeman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: brave; legionary; rifle; rifleman; serviceman; soldier; warrior
