Yeomen in example sentence

"Because," replied the woodsman, "I know not if these yeomen and I are used to shoot at the same marks; and because, moreover, I know not how your Grace might relish the winning of a third prize by one who has unwittingly fallen under your displeasure."

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Defense: Beggars who would soon become yeomen farmers.

And front and rear, and either flank, there ride the yeomen of the Barons, and in the midst King John.

The road had more folk on it than ever passed along it at night before; for many of the yeomen up our way had enrolled themselves in the Berwick volunteer regiments, and were riding now as fast as hoof could carry them for the muster.

If any of the old English yeomen had turned into fairies when they died, it was just the place in which they would have held their revels.

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