Operatic heroine partners French invaders

Usage examples of normans.

She might well harbor notions of Normans and their vindictive treatment of unvirtuous or disobedient brides, notions that were neither wholly inaccurate nor unjustified.

But she dared not keep her light linen chemise, for the Normans would know a common girl would not possess such a garment.

For this part of the Isles, blondes prevailed, a legacy of both the Saxons and the Danes, unlike the slightly darker Normans whose blood had mixed with Franks and Bretons.

He knew well enough the reputation of Normans among these northern folk.

It seemed to be the way of these Normans to behave so irreverently toward their lord, and it seemed to be his way to accept it of them.

The Normans drank from their cups with bemused smiles curling on their lips.

In the end, he could only do as Normans, as all men, always did, and slay the one who betrayed them.

Then the Normans had come, taken over her home and forced her into marriage.

Gerard had earned respect among the Normans who had already ridden with him.

One large Saxon burst forth from the melee, sliced alongside the Normans instead of fighting head on, and surged toward the ring of Norman knights surrounding her.

The Normans that swarmed about her bristled like a hedgehog with their great lances.

The three wounded Normans still rode their horses, and managed well enough.

The word she had not deciphered became a shout as the Normans took it up.

In a very real way, the Normans had caused the eternal damnation of her soul, because of the suicide.

They spend their time causing as much trouble for the Normans as possible.