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Pikemen in sentence

17 examples of Pikemen in a sentence

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.
In the afternoon the workers in the earth cutting took the rubbish left at the bottom of the gallery by the pikemen, and cleared out the exhausted section of the seam, in which they destroyed the wood, being only careful about the lower and upper roads for the haulage.
The pikemen had resumed work in the cutting.
He had begun to examine the roof while the pikemen had taken up their picks again.
A low growl from the pikemen greeted these words.
And their voices again rose; they had just stopped once more, and were examining the timbering in the gallery, which the pikemen were obliged to look after for a length of ten metres behind the cutting.
This part of the Filonniére seam was so thin that the pikemen, squeezed between the wall and the roof, grazed their elbows at their work.
The cages filled and were engulfed, and rose again, the shaft swallowing its ration of trammers and putters and pikemen; while on the metal floors the landers pushed the trains with a sound of thunder.
Pikemen, putters, trammers crossed them at every step; no one knew anything; all were shouting; it must be some great misfortune.
The trammer-boys had their ears boxed, the pikemen got away, their sides blue from blows and their noses bleeding.
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.
Before allowing the pikemen to return to their hewing cells, the engineer had decided that for the first five days all the men should execute certain works of consolidation which were extremely urgent.
Every twenty minutes the pikemen relieved one another.
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.