I will issue instructions thatwomenfolk are to have votes.
It is perhaps different where they belong to the Transvaal, but one would expect Englishmen, who have seen their womenfolk to places of security, to proffer such service as could be turned to account in these hours of emergency.
Clan Calatin Again* Then, having taken his leave of Conor and of the womenfolk in Emania, he turned again towards Murthemney and the foe.
The labourers, their womenfolk and children, had gathered together, and Annie, with a select party of friends, took her place in the forefront of the crowd.
And they would not bring their own wives to Tara without a queen there to welcome them, nor would they come themselves and leave their womenfolk at home.
Now Conor, seeing none but womenfolk close to him at this point, and being willing to show them his splendour, drew near to the bank on his side of the stream.
Jean saw how he' waved the womenfolk back, and then strode out into the lane.
In half an hour the cabin was so full of smoke that Jean could not see the womenfolk in their corner.
Feeling vainglorious at my victory, I pursued him further, "I also observed that your womenfolk wear face coverings in public, which is most certainly a thing of the past.
I must disagree with you there Jehu," he said, evidentially regaining his confidence and sense of moral footing, "For even in your own time the womenfolk all wore masks and face coverings.
The costumes were unique; but in the present day the womenfolk in particular have learned to ape the English, and the colours are therefore less conspicuous.
This anti-English feeling seems to have been intensified since then, and it is often jocularly remarked by Englishmen in the country that so long as an enemy makes things square with the womenfolk they need have no fear of the men.
That these even sell the more comely of their womenfolk for gain.
You bet, they take it out of theirwomenfolk when they get home.
German men, on the whole, treat theirwomenfolk kindly, but never as their equals.
In some parts of Germany men spend most of the evening drinking beer and smoking with their friends, while the womenfolk are by themselves or with the children at home.
They were all in morning dress, and their womenfolk wore what we should call Sunday frocks.
When the British householder is invited to take his womenfolk to the theatre, the thought that he will have to make such a sacrifice affects his judgment, a fact of which he is probably unaware.
A rousing farce will serve, but then the womenfolk do not want that.
However, I'm getting quite nimble at guessing and inferring; and I gather that your splendid old grandfather is rather pathetically helpless with that hive of hidden womenfolk and gurus.
All the womenfolk knitted stockings and mittens while they rested or visited, the click of the needles accompanied by the chirp of the cricket and the buzz of gossip.
Cuzak sat down behind the stove and watched his womenfolk and the little children with equal amusement.
When grandmother and I went into the Shimerdas' house, we found the womenfolk alone; Ambrosch and Marek were at the barn.
We had a big barn where the farmers could put up their teams, and their womenfolk more often accompanied them, now that they could stay with us for dinner, and rest and set their bonnets right before they went shopping.
The General's womenfolkat the Bungalow were clamorous.
If you had your way, you would raid your neighbours' womenfolkand bring them in by the hair of their heads, trailing them two at a time.
We resume our seats, look straight before us, clear our throats and stretch out our hands for our womenfolk to put our hats into them.
One or more of thewomenfolk keep the wants of the diners supplied.
To be called uncircumcised is one of the greatest reproaches that can be thrown at a Manóbo, and it is said that he would stand no chance for marriage unless the operation had been performed; the womenfolk would laugh and jeer at him.
Hence, during the average "wake" the womenfolk huddle around the priestesses with many a startled glance.
Sirdar Bikrama Singh went home to his womenfolk and railed as ever against his neighbour, and Khan Buktiyar Khan, as he rolled his little opium pill betwixt finger and thumb, would do the same thing.
Buktiyar Khan, as he sate amongst his crowding womenfolk with a poultice of leaves on his short beard to dye it purple.
At five o'clock in the morning the womenfolk are waiting along the little river-docks to unload the fish.
They would dance as fast as their limbs could carry them, the womenfolk keeping time with their hands.
His occupations are dancing and swaggering whilst his womenfolk carry on the bulk of the primitive pastoral and agricultural work.
The Turkish idea of keeping the womenfolk in the harem survives to the extent that woman is not supposed to frequent places of entertainment, to receive or to pay visits.
But the doctor will charge twenty dollars," Saxon pursued, "and make me get a nurse because I haven't any womenfolk to come in.
The Colonel became more and more gallant, his castle more and more homelike, more and more he came to realize that "without the womenfolk the world was not worth a round of powder.
Growling and grunting he pushed his way through the womenfolk and at last did find his brother-in-law in a not very enviable nor brilliant position and attitude.
Be a man, and drive the womenfolk out, all of them except--except Auntie Schlotterbeck there.
Behind the fighting line the womenfolk were drawn up.
Immediately surrounding this circle were the braves of the losing tribes, and beyond, all round, the womenfolk and the children and European guests.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "womenfolk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: femininity; woman; womanhood
