Pikemen in example sentence

And then the men came up, two thousand madmen--trammers, pikemen, menders--a compact mass which rolled along like a single block in confused serried rank so that it was impossible to distinguish their faded trousers or ragged woollen jackets, all effaced in the same earthy uniformity.

More example sentences with word pikemen

He was working in a set; there were four pikemen associated in his cutting, himself, Zacharie, Levaque, and Chaval.

Chapter 4THE four pikemen had spread themselves one above the other over the whole face of the cutting.

When these fragments, retained by the plank, had collected round them, the pikemen disappeared, buried in the narrow cleft.

Behind the pikemen nearly three metres of the seam were clear, and they had not yet taken the precaution of supporting the rock, having grown careless of danger and miserly of their time.

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