Yeomen in example sentence

"No wonder that churls and yeomen wax so presumptuous as even to lay leaguer before castles, and that clowns and swineherds send defiances to nobles, since men-at-arms have turned sick men's nurses, and Free Companions are grown keepers of dying folk's curtains, when the castle is about to be assailed.--To

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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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