The townsmen told them, that the owner of the mill had brought an action against them for having done him more injury than the Buccaneers.
At Hillo they surprised the townsmen asleep, and heard a false report that 5000 Englishmen had taken Panama.
It was the eve of the Assumption, crowds of sailors and townsmen lined the quays, and the expectant populace cheered the rich merchantmen as they steered with a stately sweep into the haven.
In 1419 one of the townsmen challenged the alderman of the guild at the election assembly.
Sometimes townsmen who had thriven in the world remembered gratefully the place of their birth or their education.
In 1411 the townsmen petition that they may yearly elect a mayor and be incorporated so as to be able to buy tenements without royal license (Gross, i.
The joke makes one shudder, when one thinks that, if Joseph should turn a deaf ear to the warning, he is quite sure to be hung by his townsmen to the highest branch of some tree in the town.
If, when he is free again, he returns to his bad habits, his fellow-townsmen take the law into their own hands.
The townsmen made a brave stand against them till help came.
As they had it in their power to "make trouble", if not kept in good-humour, the townsmen put up with much for the sake of peace and quietness.
The monks were usually in advance of the townsmen of those days in sanitary matters.
The monasteries were, at this period, beginning to do so much expensive building, that often they, too, were glad to get money by granting to the townsmen privileges for which they were willing to pay.
And after he had fortified that towne, he went to the towne of Lauall, and woone it, togither with the castell, sore punishing the townsmen for their cankered obstinacie against them.
The murder of a woman by a scholar led to two or three of the scholars being hanged by the townsmen with the tacit consent of the king.
In France, the first gild-merchant was formed in 1070, and came into existence for the purpose of protecting the free townsmen against the oppression of the nobility.
Oxford remained practically destitute of scholars till 1213 when the townsmenhumbled themselves, an event contributed to by King John's submission to the pope.
He had come to regard himself, as his townsmen were for the most part willing to regard him, as the social and political oracle of the place.
Though Tom Somers had been absent from the regiment only a fortnight, it seemed to him as though a year had elapsed since the day of the battle when he had stood shoulder to shoulder with his townsmen and friends.
The Campbells were fighting men from birth, like Montrose's own men, and had few townsmen serving with them.
They and thetownsmen together were too weak for Newcastle's increasing forces, and an attempt was made to relieve them by bringing up the Parliament's forces in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and the Eastern Association.
But Elcho's townsmen found that pike and musket were clumsy weapons in inexperienced hands, and, like Mackay's regulars at Killiecrankie fifty years later, they wholly failed to stop the rush of the Highland swordsmen.
Leaning on his cane, staring over the townsmen who crowd the forum, he looks a pillar, his head shaggy, beard glistening with oil, clothes immaculate.
Some of the townsmen gathered to stare, dead silent.
The defence offered by the townsmen was all the more obstinate from their being inspired with the sentiment that it was a religious duty to fight against the Infidel.
The townsmen pushed forward, in a crowd, before the lictors, not perceiving the band of soldiers who were following them close, until they arrived at the general's quarters.
It was then that the energy of the townsmen was subdued, and those who defended the walls being beaten off, the Romans took possession of them.
At first, they did not push forward their operations with any great degree of vigour, because they had hopes of a dissension breaking out between the townsmen and the king's troops.
The townsmen held the city, which lay between the two fortresses, as the prize of the victors.
There were troubles, too, with the citizens about the billeting of the English contingent, and many were the heart burnings which arose between stubborn townsmen and military rulers before these matters could be adjusted.
A young Quaker woman had got up upon some steps, moved in spirit, as she declared, to denounce the wickedness of war, and to urge the townsmen to peaceful methods.
Attacks on townsmen were not mere undergraduate follies, but were countenanced and even led by officials of the University, e.
When a new University was founded, it was sometimes taken for granted that these conflicts must arise, and that the townsmen were certain to be in the wrong.
Whatever may have been his demeanour in the council, outside, at least, the duties of his office were discharged with firmness and energy, as the townsmen of Manchester had cause to know.
His townsmen led the van in his rejection by his own.
The author of this great national benefit was allowed to die almost in poverty, uncared for by his countrymen at large, or by his adopted townsmen of Birmingham.
They sold ye materials, of which many houses and parts of houses are built in ye town of Birmingham, ye townsmen of ye better sort not resisting ye rabble, but quietly permitting, if not prompting them to doe itt.
Before burgesses were called to Parliament, townsmen of Exeter, Northampton, Nottingham and Wallingford were trustees of the hospitals of St. John in those places.
When the mayor and townsmen came in procession to St. Bartholomew’s on the patronal festival, many bore wax lights which they left in the chapel for use during the year.
But before the townsmen obtained their school, it was necessary to sell the stock of plate intended to pass from mayor to mayor, “as hath byn credibly reported,” says a book formerly belonging to the Chamber.
In the early morning the townsmen could discern that the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was being offered in the camp of their besiegers as a preparative for the dangers of the day.
He next turned his rage against Donovan, who had called to his aid the Danish townsmen of Desmond.
The townsmen of Waterford marched promptly at a call, under their standard of the three galleys, and those of Dublin as cheerfully turned out under the well-known banner, decorated with three flaming towers.
Clanrickarde hastened to extinguish this spark of resistance, and induced the townsmen to capitulate on his personal guarantee.
The townsmen of Dublin had every reason, from their knowledge of Dermid's cruel character, to expect the worst at his hands and those of his allies.
On another, the townsmen of Limerick agreed about the same period to pay annually for ever to O'Brien the sum of 60 marks.
The townsmen of Wexford, aware of his arrival as soon as it had taken place, hastened to make their submission and to deliver up to him their prisoner, Robert Fitzstephen, the first of the invaders.
Malachy O'Phelan, the brave lord of Desies, forgetting all ancient enmity against his Danish neighbours, had joined the townsmen to assist in the defence.
To the townsmen the fleet was something wonderful.
It was signed by about seventy Catholic peers and commoners, by the Bishop of Kilmore, by Procurator Walsh, and by the townsmen of Wexford--almost the only urban community of Catholics remaining in the country.
And he sent to the townsmen greeting them, and saying that he was coming to dwell among them and to be their King, and that he would deal bountifully by them; and that he should wait awhile in the town which was called Sera.
And as he was praying in the church he heard certain of the townsmen and of the pilgrims saying that Santiago was wont to appear in battle like a knight, in aid of the Christians.
And the townsmen ran to the gates and drove away those of the King's party who guarded them; and they strove to beat the gates down, but they could not, and they set fire to them and burnt them.
The Hyderabadis especially have a well-fed look not commonly found in the inland towns, and are quite the best dressed townsmen of India.
Nearly all the townsmen are painted with white dabs and streaks, but the Brahmins have a coloured stripe down the forehead, with a stripe of white on either side.
O how journey we, while townsmen sleep With limbs involved in coverlets;[139] and when he travels by day he follows the course of the clouds, seeking coolness and shade.
The same is true of the relation of the Bedâwî towards the townsmen in the Somali country.
Probably had Lot felt any inclination to pray for his townsmen he would have seen that for him to do so would be unseemly.
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