The Arab clansmen are like the Hielan' caterans; they may fight and quarrel with one another, but unless there is a blood feud it is unlikely they will help either the English or the Egyptians to bag old Osman Digna.
One by one, however, Arab clansmen and blacks repented and deserted Mahdism.
This ambition of the Satsuma clansmen deserves special mention, because it bore remarkable fruit; it may be said to have laid the foundation of constitutional government in Japan.
Their purpose was to overthrow the clique of clansmen who, holding the reins of administrative power, monopolized the prizes of officialdom.
But the clansmen of Satsuma and Choshu were distrustful.
The clansmenhave already taken everything I owned," he said.
Men swarmed up the rungs, fierce-eyed clansmen with laughter in their mouths.
And the Clansmen who had started in to save their leader stopped and did not move.
He thought of the wild clansmen coming fast across the snow, and felt a certain pity for the men of Kushat.
In that wild charge, none of the clansmen failed to 'do his duty.
Many of the clansmen had scattered to their homes in search of subsistence, for funds were falling lower and lower at Inverness.
It was the swiftness and splendid daring of their onset that made these ill-armed, untrained clansmen the equals or more than the equals of the regular army that opposed them.
Soon the light-footed clansmen got ahead of the Lowland and French and Irish regiments unused to such heavy walking.
This brought the clansmen to a halt, a few were forced back, more perished, flinging themselves against the bayonets.
No one saw more clearly than Locheil the hopelessness of the undertaking, no one was more unwilling to lead his clansmen to what he knew was certain destruction.
The answer lies in the fact that in a number of instances the term for father has an emphatically clan or gentile significance, being extended even to father’s clansmen of the speaker’s generation, as among the Crow and Arizona Tewa.
The difficulty urged is the grouping together of brothers’ sons who are not clansmen under a matrilineal organization with sisters’ sons who are.
In the feudal days of Japan, so recently past, the position of the samurai was exactly the same as the clansmen of a Highland chief, say at the time of the "Forty-Five.
The samurai clansmen were the exact counterparts of Highlanders.
They are hunting down the clansmen like wild beasts; but here in the Lowlands they will not trouble themselves to ask who was for King George and who was against him, except among those who have got estates they can confiscate.
On the day after the battle the musket of one of the Clanranald clansmenwent off by accident and killed the son of Glengarry.
The clansmen who had come on board the ship without knowing the object of the visit were now told who the prince was, and they expressed their readiness to follow to the death.
Colonel Leslie had resisted stoutly, but his heart beat at the thought of returning to the home of his youth and ending his days among the clansmen who had followed him and his fathers before him.
M'Intoshes -- for they wereclansmen who had been sleeping in the wood -- answered.
Occasionally in the course of the day's walk they met with clansmen passing along the road.
The Laird of Mackintosh brought five hundred clansmen from Inverness shire, the Marquis of Huntly had five hundred horse and two thousand foot, and the Earl Marischal had a thousand men.
In vain Lord John Drummond and the Duke of Perth called upon them to charge, in vain their chief, Keppoch, rushed forward with a few of his clansmen and died in front of them.
The unfurling of the standard was greeted with loud shouts, and the clansmen threw their bonnets high in the air.
After marching twenty miles the troops entered the narrow ravine of Spean Bridge, when they were suddenly attacked by a party of Keppoch's clansmen who were on their way to join the prince when they saw the English troops on their march.
Forthwith the clansmen of Stenia united in a triumphant yell, followed immediately, however, by another yet louder.
They were cool and quiet; much more so, indeed, than the respective clansmen and clanswomen.
The clansmensolemnly accompany the corpse to its burial; death lamentations assume specific ceremonial forms, for whose observance there is very commonly a special class of female mourners.
The valiant Highland chief and his clansmen laughed at the futile attempts to drive them from their post.
Chieftain; 'I must find you a handsome husband among the clansmen one of these days.
He found the former busied in determining disputes among his clansmen about points of precedence and deeds of valour, besides sundry high and doubtful questions concerning plunder.
The greater part of the clansmen went forward under the guidance of old Ballenkeiroch and Evan Dhu Maccombich, apparently in high spirits.
The two long-legged men between its shafts, sailors and clansmen from Miran's vessel, the Bird of Fortune, began running through the crowd.
Miran had lost face because he'd allowed his vessel to be wrecked and his Clansmen murdered en masse.
Everything is in the hands of those two clansmen of mine.
I had not the remotest knowledge that one of my own clansmen was in England.
By the time he reached the age of sixteen, his skill with the weapon was fully recognized by the young clansmen who, on occasions of festive gatherings, sometimes came up to try their skill with the young laird.
The Scotch clansmen used their claymores chiefly for striking; but under Rudolph's tuition the lad came to be as apt with the point as he had before been with the edge, and fully recognized the great advantages of the former.
That he should grow up as a petty laird, where his ancestors had been the owners of wide estates, and were powerful chiefs with a large following of clansmen and retainers, was not to be thought of.
If my father had fallen on a German battlefield, instead of at Culloden, our estates would not have been confiscated, our glens harried, and our clansmen hunted down and massacred.
A body of mounted men with torches met them, at the boundary of the estate; and accompanied them to the house, where all the tenants and clansmen were assembled.
These clansmen bled and died in the belief that every principle of honour and morals secured their descendants a right to subsisting on the soil.
He spied in hall the hero-band, kin and clansmenclustered asleep, hardy liegemen.
Din filled the room; the Danes were bereft, castle-dwellers and clansmen all, earls, of their ale.
Clansmen hastened to the high-built hall, those hardy-minded, the wonder to witness.
But battle-death seized and cruel killing my clansmen all, robbed them of life and a liegeman's joys.
So lived the clansmen in cheer and revel a winsome life, till one began to fashion evils, that field of hell.
Home then rode the hoary clansmen from that merry journey, and many a youth, on horses white, the hardy warriors, back from the mere.
Casting off brogues and plaids theclansmen moved forward down the slope.
Macdonald of Sleat headed a body of five hundred clansmen from the Isles of which he was the Lord.
For two months the clansmenavailed themselves to the full of the arbitrary powers with which the royal warrant invested them.
The clansmen had almost given up swearing by their lords' hands.
He lived just long enough to call his chief clansmen round him, to speak of the Queen's kindness, and to adjure them to serve her and to fulfil every promise that he had made.
After dinner he talked freely, advising his host not to trust Shane, who would now be worse than ever, having rejected the advice of all his principal clansmen to attend Sussex at his landing.
The O'Neills had no mind to do all themselves, and Tirlogh, supported neither by clansmen nor auxiliaries, said that he would trust the English.
Archie Forbes with a few of the others rallied round the queen with her ladies, and repelled every effort of the wild clansmen to break through, and continued to draw off gradually down the glen.
And the clansmen pant, and they sweat, and they jostle and strain.
From that time the struggle assumed the character of a war between Celtic Ireland and feudal Ireland, the native clansmen and the Anglo-Norman settlers.
Thus the wider "principality" of Llewelyn was shattered at the first assault, and when the decisive moment came, Llewelyn was thrown back upon his hereditary clansmen of Gwynedd.
When we drove up to his palace, one of the stateliest in Marrakech, the street was thronged with clansmenand clients.
Like all Orientals, this hero of the Atlas, who spends half his life with his fighting clansmen in a mediaeval stronghold among the snows, and the other half rolling in a 60 h.
Sandy McLean there might hold the clansmen and take them to Edinburgh, yet Sandy is not chief even of his own clan, but an apple-cheeked lad, who thinks only of taking the eyes of maidens.
But Jack Scarlett abode still with Keppoch and Lochiell to help them to bring theirclansmen into the field.
As for Scarlett, the master-at-arms was driven to distraction by the hopelessness of teaching the clansmen anything.
To him she represented that civilization from which he had so recently come, and which looked askance on the wild vengeances that were expected and even thought proper among the clansmen of Suliscanna.
After a moment's thought he looked up and cried some direction to the clansmen who followed the cattle ahead of them.
Do these your clansmen of honor and courtesy wear butchers' knifes in their belts, and go by the name of Haxo the Bull, the Calf, and the Killer?
One or two regiments seemed to have been missed, standing idly at their arms, like forgotten wheat in a corner of an ill-reaped field; but for the rest, clansmen and red soldiers alike had passed out of sight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clansmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
