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Usage examples of warriors.

And the horde of villagers was now streaming and screaming down onto the beach: more warriors, boys, then even gray hairs and women, and their hundreds of voices had risen to a shrill din.

But between him and them were tall, sinewy warriors who looked nervous and held stone-tipped lances pointed at him.

He just kept turning, looking around, nape tingling, always expecting to find one of those tall warriors close behind him.

Prince Madoc, walked slowly through the circle of warriors, looking stern and dangerous.

When the women and children began to scatter with frightened cries, the warriors murmured ominously and stood their ground.

Mungo had nearly lost, then regained, his spell over the warriors of the village, breaking their will by the clangor of his ax and kettle, showing them the dragon banner, baring his teeth, and even bellowing a Welsh drinking song, anything to frighten and bewilder them, and finally they had lain their weapons on the ground and stood submissive, as if afraid to provoke any more of his head-hurting noises, those high, ringing thunders he called down by striking two things together.

Madoc looked back and saw that hundreds of the warriors had come down to the riverbank he had just left and were watching the coracles cross.

He expected them to go up the creek or perhaps to debark their warriors at the base of the bluff for a stealthy climb to the plateau.

Most of the missiles were falling far short of the warriors, who were still some two hundred paces from the palisade.

He saw that the warriors had gathered up their fallen comrades in their retreat.

Then as he looked back at the retreating warriors and their king, he realized that it must have been the range of the crossbows that had disheartened them.

They returned with two deer and reported that although they had been stalked continually, none of the warriors had come within a furlong, evidently from fear of the far-shooting weapons.

The king at once, with a sweep of his right hand, indicated the distant woods, and Madoc perceived that to mean that no warriors were hiding there in wait.

Gwenllian, Duck Egg, and Earth Daughter went down the cliff path that afternoon to bathe, they saw Rhys and his party, smithies and soldiers and a group of Euchee warriors, already moving down the riverbank on their way to seek iron ore.

The armor of the soldiers flashed in the hot sunlight, but the Euchee warriors were more colorful, with their ornaments of dyed feathers and their quill-covered shoulder bags in which they carried parched meal and dried meat.