The Yeomanry were very steady, and for the most part ran the gauntlet at a nice, dignified canter, pulling into a walk as soon as the dangerous space was crossed.
General Brabazon therefore halted his centre squadrons and detached a turning force of three companies of Yeomanry to the right.
For the first time I saw the Imperial Yeomanryin the field.
As theYeomanry emerged from the shelter of the plateau the Boer Creusot gun espied them.
On the 28th, dusty and tired at the end of a long march, he arrived with his Yeomanry at the foot of a pass among the hills.
The Yeomanry galloped off to the right again, as if about to surround it, and the Boers allowed themselves to be bounced out of this strong and important position, and scampered away to a smooth green hill a mile in rear.
Nevertheless the struggle turned gradually to the advantage of the labourer, and ended in the creation of the sturdy and prosperous farming yeomanry who were the strength of the realm for several centuries to come.
They were now for the most part letting out the soil to tenant-farmers at a moderate rent, and the large class of yeomanry created by this movement seem to have been prosperous.
An attempt was made by a party ofyeomanry to arrest a popular agitator, Henry Hunt; the angry mob surged round the horsemen, who found themselves powerless; the Riot Act was read, and the 15th Hussars charged the crowd with drawn swords.
The small farms were consolidated, the class of yeomanry or small farmers died out, and household manufacture gave place to that of the factory.
With their labor services commuted to money and the other conditions of their villainage no longer enforced, they became an indistinguishable part either of the yeomanry or of the body of agricultural laborers.
But I know there's a good deal to be said on the yeomanry side of the question.
And while Swing and his myrmidons were abroad in the counties, and could scarcely be kept down by yeomanry and poor law guardians, the great towns were in almost worse case.
Surely theyeomanry can never have come on here already?
That one of those unspeakable yeomanry has been shooting at you?
Also included in this second group were the most prosperous yeomanry of the countryside.
A considerable number of girls of other backgrounds such as the yeomanry and the town citizenry somehow learned to read and write.
The third class was the yeomanry at large, which included many more than the initial group who possessed land in freehold of at least 40s.
A can of anything, I've discovered, provides food as well as a combination saucepan and coffee pot.
I've promised him to be on the road before daybreak.
He'll have to work his way, but that, of course, will be good for him.
I often think these days of Kenny's wood-fire tales of the shrine of Black Gartan where St. Columba was born.
But when the yeomanry 've done their part, I take them, and the law passes upon them.
So that it's little good you and your yeomanry seem to have done at Manchester, except get yourselves abused!
Because, poor, foolish foreigner, he had no yeomanry and no Bow Street, ma'am!
They were of the class from whom the yeomanry were drawn, and they had scant sympathy with the radical weavers of Rochdale and Bury, Bolton and Manchester.
The yeomanry became entangled--a second charge was needful: the multitude fled every way.
By 1815 the yeomanry had almost disappeared, the soil belonged to a few rich families whose revenue depended on rents, and the value of rents turned on the price of the cereals.
Lacking physical force, this new nobility feared the ancient farming population, whom they slowly exterminated; and they feared them with reason, for from among the yeomanry Cromwell drew his Ironsides.
The effect was to pauperize the yeomanry and lesser gentry, and before the Reformation the homeless poor had so multiplied that, in 1530, Parliament passed the first of a series of vagrant acts.
John Shakspere and Mary, his good wife, did not seem to have much of an education, for in signing deeds of conveyance, they only made their mark like thousands of the yeomanry of England.
He was a wonder to the yeomanry of Warwickshire and the surrounding counties, and when he had occasion to rest for the night at farm houses or taverns, he was the prime favorite of the rural flames or bouncing, beaming barmaid.
Upon this the magistrates seem to have lost their presence of mind, to have believed that the yeomanry were in danger, and to have ordered the 15th Hussars to extricate them.
As it was, the establishment of the yeomanry certainly saved Ireland, and yet it is here probably that the great error of the Government showed itself.
The only new troops he could call on were the 2nd Mounted Division, a body of British Yeomanry who had been doing garrison duty in Egypt.
At five o'clock the Yeomanry were called from the reserve at Lala Baba.
In this identical manner was I enrolled as a full private in the Edinburgh squadron of the Mid-Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry.
The uniform of the Mid-Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry, madam.
Had it not been for Anthony, and the dread of his report, I certainly think I should have bolted, and renounced the yeomanry for ever.
Right into the centre of a troop of the Royal Yeomanry Cavalry!
It was the bows of the English yeomanry that won the fight at Crecy, fully as much as the prowess of the Norman baronage.
He tricked and baffled legal authority in the person of the proud sheriff of Nottingham, thereby appealing to that secret sympathy with lawlessness and adventure which marked the free-born, vigorous yeomanry of England.
Washington, with the deceptive hopefulness of responsibility, had, even when it seemed that the people were as one man against the treaty, "doubted much whether the great body of the yeomanry have formed any opinions on the subject.
For he meant to have some of the yeomanry as well as of the trained bands, so that if the Doones should sally forth, as perhaps they would, on horseback, cavalry might be there to meet them, and cut them off from returning.
Although the yeomanry were not come (according to arrangement), some of us had horses there; besides the horses who dragged the cannon, and now were sniffing at it.
For if ye bring it to pass that the yeomanry be not able to put their sons to school (as indeed universities do wondrously decay already); I say ye pluck salvation from the people and utterly destroy the realm.
He makes his meaning quite clear by saying "tenancies for years, lives, and at will, whereupon much of the yeomanry lived, were turned into demesnes.
Thus Bacon[66] writes quite vaguely of "the yeomanry or middle people, of a condition between gentlemen and cottagers or peasants.
The ancestors of the yeomanry had suffered much in the anarchy of the fifteenth century, when the violent ejection of freeholders seems to have become almost as common[81] as it had been in the evil days before the reforms of Henry II.
We must set Latimer's lamentations over the decay of the yeomanry side by side with the figures of Gregory King and the boasts of Chamberlayne and Defoe.
But burgesses and yeomanrywould not be chevelry, and H agrees with E.
The good old Code, like Argus, had a hundred watchful eyes, And each old English peasant had his good old English spies, To tempt his starving discontent with good old English lies, Then call the British yeomanry to stop his peevish cries.
He was present at the camp of Kalisch in his yeomanry uniform, and assisted at the festivals of Barcelona in an Andalusian jacket.
During the progress of the rebellion of 1798, Mr. Hume sent his children to Dublin for safety, and took personal command of a corps of yeomanry raised in his county.
This commission appears to have lapsed, for, when war was declared by Great Britain against Bonaparte in 1803, we find Robert Gourlay volunteering as a private in a troop of yeomanry cavalry.
He gets a commission in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry before returning to Cambridge for Hilary term this year.
He gets over all this after the Ryde recreation, and the hunting at Wiseton, when, towards the end of September this year, he bids farewell to his military life as a cornet in the Yeomanry of Northampton.
However, nothing came, and he rode to the Rectory in Yeomanry equipment.
Griff has a white plume in his Yeomanry helmet,' replied Martyn; 'Clarence hasn't one.
Rural police were non-existent; there were no soldiers nearer than Keynsham, and the Yeomanry were all in their own homesteads.
A regiment containing two old schoolmates of his was at Bristol, and he spent a good deal of time there, and also in Yeomanry drill.
As may be believed, these quiet mornings were those when that true knight was employed in field sports or yeomanry duties, such as the state of the country called for.
The would-be reformers fled in every direction, and the arrival of the Cheshire Yeomanry assisted rapidly to clear the field.
Acting under the orders of the magistrates, the Manchester Yeomanry and the hussars, with drawn swords, dashed through the crowd in the direction of the temporary platform, where they captured Henry Hunt and others.
Through the greater part of Europe, the yeomanry are regarded as an inferior rank of people, even to the better sort of tradesmen and mechanics, and in all parts of Europe to the great merchants and master manufacturers.
What would it have been, had the law given no direct encouragement to agriculture besides what arises indirectly from the progress of commerce, and had left the yeomanry in the same condition as in most other countries of Europe?
Even in England, the country, perhaps of Europe, where the yeomanry has always been most respected, it was not till about the 14th of Henry VII.
In Scotland the abolition of all services not precisely stipulated in the lease, has, in the course of a few years, very much altered for the better the condition of the yeomanry of that country.
In Scotland, besides, as no leasehold gives a vote for a member of parliament, the yeomanry are upon this account less respectable to their landlords than in England.
The public services to which the yeomanry were bound, were not less arbitrary than the private ones.
But what is of much more importance than all of them, the yeomanry of England are rendered as secure, as independent, and as respectable, as law can make them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yeomanry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
