Yeomen in example sentence

Had Fitzurse met this figure in an outer apartment, he would have passed him without notice, as one of the yeomen of the guard; but finding him in the inner hall, he looked at him with more attention, and recognised the Norman knight in the dress of an English yeoman.

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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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