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Example sentences for "clubmen"

Lexicographically close words:
club; clubbed; clubbing; clubhouse; clubman; clubroom; clubs; clubwomen; cluck; clucked
  1. The clubmen relaxed from their ready poise.

  2. Two clubmen are there now, and there is only the one door.

  3. On all sides their clubmen and spearmen were bludgeoning and stabbing at the close-packed Red Bones, leaping in, killing, springing back and onward with terrible efficiency.

  4. Marston said it all in a few words to the Captain, as the Clubmen stepped on deck a few hours later: "Barbican is floating midway in the depths of the Pacific, like Mahomet in his coffin!

  5. It was near midnight when the Clubmen were lifted out of the manhole.

  6. You cannot go home without an armed escort, for the country is up; the clubmen are out everywhere to protect their cattle and horses, a rough and rude folk they would be to meet; and the gipsies are robbing and plundering.

  7. I suppose there were once cattle in the meadow, but they are either driven away by the clubmen for safety, or they have been stolen by the gipsies.

  8. The men of Hawks' Boost talked pretty freely about each other in the absence of such of their fellow clubmen as were under discussion.

  9. At first the clubmen rather wondered at him.

  10. Taunton, in spite of Massey's efforts to keep the field, was again besieged, and in Wilts and Dorset numerous bands of Clubmen were on foot which the king's officers were doing their best to turn into troops for their master.

  11. Fairfax and the New Model, after reducing Bridgwater, had turned back to clear away the Dorsetshire Clubmen and to besiege Sherborne Castle.

  12. But, unprofessional soldiers though they were, the clubmen at Sturminster gave an excellent account of themselves, killing and wounding a number of the dragoons, and taking sixteen others prisoners.

  13. To hear from hour to hour the contradictory chatter of irresponsible clubmen and M.

  14. To those who, like myself, were brought up in agricultural districts, the notion that the labourer was a revolutionary seemed strangely unreal; but it was a haunting obsession in the minds of clubmen and town-dwellers.

  15. Yet still some of the many clubmen of the townsfolk tumbled over as they ran, and the drawbridge was choked with men flying, thrusting and thronging, wild and blind with the fear of death.

  16. But through the press of our clubmen and flying horsemen they might not win, and now I saw, what never man saw before, the sword of the Maid bare in battle!

  17. Throughout July and August Rupert busied himself at Bristol, circling about the country, pacifying and winning over the Clubmen and trying to supply the deficiencies of the Bristol stores.

  18. A few days later he was engaged in suppressing a revolt in Herefordshire, where the peasants were rising like the clubmen of Dorset.

  19. Another of the clubmen was David Garrick--not one of the original nine, but voted in a few years after.

  20. George the Third is just finishing the first decade of his long reign; most of the clubmen of whom we have spoken are still alive, and go up, with more or less of regularity, to pay their court to Dr.

  21. Probably the clubmen now gave in their adhesion to the only party which was able to protect them, and against which resistance would have been unavailing, for the fortunes of King Charles were rapidly sinking to the lowest ebb.

  22. The Worcestershire clubmen first mustered to the number of about two thousand, and put forth a declaration of their intentions against the Popish party and to preserve the King's rights and the privileges of Parliament.

  23. These clubmen first arose in the west of England, where for a time their efforts were principally directed to the checking of the cruelties and licentious outrages of Goring, the Royalist commander, and his desperate bands.

  24. Our clubmen have begun to use the tourists' talk," said Deering and gave Peter the glasses.

  25. The mountain clubmen studied climbing as one studies the ball-game.

  26. Upon Christmas day at night Sir Gilbert withdrew his forces being weary of the Siege, and his Souldiers and Clubmen were glad of it, that they might eate their Christmas pyes at home.

  27. He stayed a day or two in order to summon the Fylde, which was entirely royalist in sympathy, and so added to his numbers 3000 clubmen over whom officers were appointed.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clubmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.