By this time a Catalonian knight of the renowned House of Cardonas, made his appearance on a noble charger, and, throwing himself between the two parties, ordered the townspeople to retire.
His townspeoplego with him to seek the wonderful tree, but part of the cave is closed by the spirit Kaboniyan who owns it.
The garrison was massacred to a man, Yuen Yingtai, brave, if incapable, committed suicide, and those of the townspeople who wished to save their lives had to shave their heads in token of subjection.
Early in the morning the townspeople had woke up to the fact that the army had gone, and there was a general exodus of all who could obtain conveyances.
But for all the townspeople laughed at Mistress Clary's and Mistress Dulcie's flights, they never dreamt of them as unbecoming or containing a bit of harm.
There were only two chaises in repair in Priorton, to convey the whole townspeople in rotation to the ball.
They were mostly townspeople now who crowded the compartments.
An angel in the guise of a pilgrim led him to the place where the bridge was to be built and telling him to cross the river and show himself to the bishop and the townspeople of Avignon, vanished from his sight.
The bishop and all the townspeople looked on while he raised the stone, which thirty men could not have moved, as easily as if it were a small pebble and carried it away to form the foundation stone of his bridge.
The Earl of Derby lay before it for nine weeks, and the townspeople were so reduced by starvation that they wished the place to be given up.
The townspeople loved to stroll down to it in the twilight, with half-stirred idle thoughts of better things soothing away the worries and cares of the day.
There was not one of the townspeople she had not known from their earliest appearance in Upton, and she had the pedigree of all the families, high and low, at her finger-ends.
There was one point, however, on which all the townspeople were united.
But that was a most imprudent step; for if they had remained in the yard, the townspeople might have come to their assistance; but now the Birkebeins filled the whole yard, and from thence scrambled from all sides up to the loft.
Gregorius was then in the town, and summoned the bondes and townspeople to a great Thing, at which he desired their aid; but he thought the people did not hear him with much favour, so he did not much trust them.
But the townspeople attended very little to this warning, were indifferent, and forgot more and more the dreadful omens the longer it was since they happened.
It would be advisable to call the townspeople together with the war-horns, to meet under arms out on Eyrar.
The whole townspeople went to meet the body, sorrowing, and the most of them weeping; for all people loved him with sincere affection.
The morning after, however, when they saw the fleet sailing in past the Hofud Isle, four men carried the coffin out of the town, and Thjostolf and all the townspeople followed it.
The massacre turned from the one side to the other, and it is said that no less than three thousand of the unfortunatetownspeople were slain.
As soon as this was reported to Barbarossa he landed in force and entered the town, and then the townspeople noticed that the soldiers were all shouting for Soliman and for Barbarossa.
Completely deceived, the townspeople allowed the landing of eight hundred Janissaries.
There was no mention of Raschid, that Prince of the Hafsit dynasty, whom Kheyr-ed-Din had declared to the townspeople he had come to restore to the throne of his ancestors.
But there was no other way for it, and many were the sharp skirmishes that took place with the townspeople where folk as a rule had been wont to disport themselves on holidays.
Next to Captain Bethuel lived Mrs. Patience Foster, called "Mary Pashy" by the townspeople to distinguish her from another Mary Foster in East Bayport.
Before they were at an end the first group of townspeople came up the steps.
As these were only open to foreigners, neither the townspeople nor the innocent countryfolk around were ever exposed to the temptations and dangers so eloquently set forth in certain pamphlets.
The sympathy shown by the good townspeople at the time of the operation was most touching.
For the massacre of the townspeople in the church he offers a similar apology, equally calculated to interest the feelings of the saints.
Yet the townspeople were downtrodden by the savage soldiery, and the town was daily the scene of great disorder.
The massacre of Drogheda was renewed with all its horrors, and the treacherous General held in his hand all the time the formal offer of surrender which had been made by the townspeople and his own reply.
When Mondejar re-entered the city of Granada he brought with him 800 rescued Christian women, who had been destined for sale to the Jews of Barbary, and the churchmen made this an excuse for urging the townspeople to fresh vengeance.
The townspeople were disinclined to hopeless resistance, and only some of the nobles, the friars, and the country people made any attempt at it.
Casting all his fortunes on one bold stroke, he assembled the townspeople in the great plaza, and harangued them with all his marvellous powers of oratory.
Dazzled by this vision, the townspeople elected Don Hypolito President with enthusiasm, and vowed to stand by him to the end.
Several of the townspeople had met with shocking deaths.
The townspeople were not slow to respond, but the commandant ordered the 'geneydle' to beat, sent out numerous patrols, and succeeded in calming the excitement and restoring quietness without any casualties.
The fleet could not make its way into the harbour, which the townspeople had effectually protected by sinking a couple of ships in the entrance, and the Roman engineers could not reach the walls of the town.
The townspeople were disposed to come to terms, and a conference between their representatives and the Roman generals was accordingly held.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "townspeople" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bourgeois; burgher; townspeople; villager
