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Example sentences for "thingmen"

Lexicographically close words:
thine; thing; thinge; thinges; thingis; things; thingummy; think; thinkable; thinke
  1. Yet I saw him now and then, and ever would he rail at Ethelred the king, who sat still and left the Danish thingmen in possession of the eastern strongholds even yet.

  2. They are still fighting the thingmen in the towns," I said.

  3. The scarlet-cloaked Danish thingmen at the gates paid no heed to me, for it was market day, and many countryside people were going in and out.

  4. And they told me that Thorkel's fleet had sailed northward on Swein's death, and that the thingmen whom he had left in the place had gone to London.

  5. Then the last doubt of trouble to come passed from me, for it was plain that these thingmen looked for help presently.

  6. The thingmen would submit quietly if they knew they must; but if they were left, they would send word to Cnut that there was no force to oppose him.

  7. Only at Canterbury, inside whose walls the Danish thingmen gathered in desperation, had we any trouble, and we must needs lay siege to the place.

  8. The red cloaks of Cnut's thingmen were on bridge and walls and fort alike, and no few of them in either stronghold.

  9. The country far around was then brought in subjection to King Ethelred: but the Thingmen (1) and the Danes held many castles, besides a great part of the country.

  10. Blue sword and shining spear Laid Ulfkel's dead corpse there, Our Thingmen hear the war-shower sounding Our grey arrows from their shields rebounding.

  11. He laid his ships at land at Nyjamoda, where the troops of the Thingmen were, and gave them battle and gained the victory.

  12. There could then be small need of retaining the thingmen who were furthermore a source of expense, perhaps of danger.

  13. The thingmen will all die where they stand, and I think that many other men will die when they do.

  14. They fought on with almost an appearance of possible success until the resistless pressure of the trained thingmen broke their front and disordered them.

  15. A swift dash of the thingmen might make wild work of yonder camp this night.

  16. It had happened that the first of them to cross the bridge were not of the thingmen of Harold.

  17. Valiantly they fought, but there was no resisting the solid array of the English housecarls, or Thingmen as they were also called.

  18. Harold's ambassador returned with his men across the river with Tostig's message, and then in solid array the English Thingmen moved forward to the attack.

  19. Against their heavily-armed troops and their squadrons of knights and horsemen one of the Thingmen was worth three untried peasants.

  20. After the hymn was over the Thingmen crowded about Oscar to congratulate him and some of the country-people fell upon his neck.

  21. The festival of the Proclamation began with service in the parish church, and though the Governor and the Thingmen only had been able to pack into the little place, the churchyard outside and the home-field of the parsonage had been thronged.

  22. Factor Neilsen rode beside him, and the Bishop, the Chief Justice and most of the Thingmen followed in his train.


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