Its bands of yeomen and retainers had all gone to serve other masters or been slain in the numerous combats, and only a few white-haired old domestics remained to keep up the shadow of its ancient splendor.
Its halls had been thronged with retainers, and Sir Thomas De Forest had led out a hundred yeomen to fight in the Scottish battles under king Edward the First.
No hue and cry after the dead yeomen ever came to the Island, and the troubles of '98 spent themselves without crossing again from the mainland.
Four yeomen on their horses were crossing to the island.
The entire country, in fact, hereabouts is occupied by yeomen farmers, many of whom have lately bought their farms, and who mostly do their own work.
In the mean time our yeomen landed, and surrounded the cave on all sides, so that there was no possibility of escape for those within.
They were to carry with them some yeomen in coloured clothes, as their attendants, and more were to come as their guests to dinner.
The explanation is that the freeholders, though most important politically, did not form the larger proportion of those substantial yeomen whose decay was lamented.
The children of yeomen had no doubt been educated mainly for the Church, and some attained high position (Surtees Society, vol.
The genius of England is a rural divinity and does not yet rule the waves; but the English yeomen have "in time past made all France afraid.
For wills of husbandmen and yeomensee Surtees Society, vol.
The average school life of the sons of sevenyeomen was between six and seven years; one stays for twelve years, going to school at five and staying till seventeen.
Indeed, Germany hath her boors like our yeomen; but by a tyrannical appropriation of nobility to some few ancient families their yeomen are excluded from ever rising higher to clarify their blood.
For one thing, it is difficult to reconcile it with the accounts given us of the substantial yeomen by the writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Some hold, when hospitality died, she gave her last groan among the yeomen of Kent.
It "made of yeomen and artificers gentlemen, and of gentlemen knights, and so forth upward, and of the poorest sort stark beggars.
It is believed that practically all furniture used by the yeomen settlers was locally made.
Says the shan van vocht; What should the yeomen do But throw off the red and blue, And swear that they'll be true To the shan van vocht?
What should the yeomen do But throw off the red and blue, And swear that they'll be true To the shan van vocht?
Nadin was still out, but Bishop was there and the chaplain, and two or three yeomen and peasants.
When the hound had come forth, a couple of yeomenadvanced to enlarge the opening, while a third with a pick endeavoured to remove the root, which formed an impediment to their efforts.
The bottom of the hall was thronged withyeomen of the guard, halberdiers, and henchmen.
Henry was attended by his customary band of archers and yeomen of the guard, and by the Duke of Shoreditch and his followers.
At these orders two yeomen of the guard advanced, and throwing down a heap of fagots, straw, and other combustibles on the roots of the tree, soon kindled a fierce fire.
Meanwhile the fire, being kept constantly supplied with fresh fagots, and stirred by the yeomen of the guard, burnt bravely.
At our ground this day, I met a very respectable and intelligent native revenue officer who had been employed to settle some boundary disputes between theyeomen of our territory and those of the adjoining territory of Dhôlpur.
There was much truth in what the poor man said, for the Dhôlpur witnesses always make it appear that the claims of their yeomen are just and moderate, and a salutary dread of losing their ears operates, no doubt, very strongly.
I thought you were the twoyeomen that hired my boat to take the young lady to Lunnun.
I scarcely know what I expected to see when the door should open; yet methinks I had not been surprised had it been either Lord Hastings himself, or a body of yeomen sent to arrest me.
It was just as we were nearing the town of Bosworth, in our search for Stanley's force, that we fell in with a straggling body of yeomen and some few men-at-arms.
Then follow the yeomen conductors, two by two, in black coats, with black staves.
He that had neyther beene kythe nor kin, Might have seen a full fayre fight, To see how together these yeomen went, With blades both browne and bright.
To see how these yeomen together they fought Two howres of a summer's day': Yet neither Robin Hood nor sir[30] Guy Them settled to flye away.
One of the yeomen vanished in a twinkling at full speed, the other two came at a brisk canter to our notable embassy.
It was he that was hanged over the wall of the castle on the day that the five English yeomen were executed.
The daughters of yeomen in these days did not sit at table with the men.
A dozen yeomen stood behind with long knives, and slashed down the beef and venison into small pieces, which they placed before the guests in wooden plates, so that there was no knife used at the dining board.
On such occasions the "Yeomen of the Guard," a body instituted by Henry VII.
It is probable the enraged Borderer would not have long continued to vent his rage in empty menaces, had not the entrance of the four yeomen with their bows bent convinced him that the force was not at this moment on his own side.
Hence the appearance he made before her in various dresses during her journey, in the course of which he was never far distant; and he had always four stout yeomen within hearing of his bugle, had assistance been necessary.
The magistrates had come to a house overlooking the field; they had intrusted their warrant to the chief constable; he had declared he could not execute it without military aid, and the yeomen had pressed into the crowded space.
The gentry and yeomen gathered themselves together to the towns and strong houses, to attempt if possible to make good for themselves that security which the Government would not give them.
They had assembled a considerable military force, of which a troop of Manchester yeomen about forty strong and six troops of the 15th Hussars formed a part.
And when Sir Launcelot and his party were ready to continue their journey the next morning, there was with them Breunor le Noire and an added number of yeomen picked from the men who had been prisoners.
These Sir Tristram and Sir Launcelot and the twoyeomen easily overcame.
And constant flow of ale and food so that none among the yeomen and even of the varlets found aught to want.
Within the half hour Sir Tristram with the two yeomen were on their way to meet Sir Percival and Sir Launcelot.
Then he had asked two yeomen to club them from the castle grounds since they were unfit to be in the company of knights.
And for each of these but one, there was high acclaim from those other yeomen who were there and from such knights as owed fealty to selfsame banner.
In the meanwhile, Sir Launcelot and Allan had made their way to where the imprisoned yeomen and hinds had been kept.
But as the day advanced of all the yeomen but a half dozen remained for the wrestling.
So too did yeomen prove their skill with mace and clubs.
Item, to know whether the King's grace will have any of his sergeant officers to attend upon the emperor, or yeomen for his mouth daily or not?
The first fruits of this policy was the capture of the two guns at Vlakfontein: since then, Brand had surrounded and captured a patrol of fifty yeomen at Snyman's Post: and on the 24th of October he attacked Col.
The little plan failed, owing to the too eager and inexperienced Yeomen showing themselves just as the birds were entering the trap.
His difficulties were further increased by one of the Yeomen with him, who became panic-stricken, and refused to mount.
On the first day out a spare wagon was filled with stuff that the Yeomen had left in camp--saddles, blankets, ammunition, etc.
On the afternoon of the 21st Major Gilbert started again (the Yeomen had been transferred to Col.
The farmer flung open the shattered door, and half a dozen sturdy yeomen pushed into the hall, bearing in their arms a motionless form clad in a red coat.
Side by side with the sons of the old Virginia houses the hunters and yeomen of the Valley had proved their worth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yeomen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
