Pikemen in example sentence

King John has slept at Duncroft Hall, and all the day before the little town of Staines has echoed to the clang of armed men, and the clatter of great horses over its rough stones, and the shouts of captains, and the grim oaths and surly jests of bearded bowmen, billmen, pikemen, and strange-speaking foreign spearmen.

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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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