What is "dutchmen"

Usage examples of "dutchmen".

Already they had waited sixty-five tedious days, beating monotonously back and forth, but today the Dutchmen might come, and Hal stared out into the gathering day with parted lips and straining green eyes.

It was yet another reason why they must seek out the Dutchmen: they needed to change ships.

They had been left alone to meet the Dutchmen in whatever force they might appear.

The Dutchmen might come at any hour, and when they did he would need every man.

Sir Francis and Aboli stood at bay below the mainmast, surrounded by howling Dutchmen, hacking and stabbing.

They snatched up the discarded weapons and turned them on the beaten Dutchmen, herding them forward, forcing them to squat in ranks with their hands clasped behind their heads, dishevelled and forlorn.

This current was the highway upon which the Dutchmen must sail to make their we stings and their landfall on the mysterious coast that still lay veiled out there in the night.

Silently the Lady Edwina steered in under the galleon's tumble home Perhaps the Dutchmen were too busy to see her coming in under shortened sail for not a single head peered down from the rail above as the two hulls came together with a jarring grinding impact.

They were hard-headed Dutchmen, every one of them: men of action rather than men of words: for good or ill the rest of the world can judge them for ever after by their deeds alone.

We'll sell all our goods and we'll get back to Holland rich and safe having gone round the world—the first Dutchmen ever.

During Elizabeth’s time some clever Dutchmen had built water-wheels there.

In any event: cannons were discharged picturesquely from the ramparts of “Maestricht,” and “Dutchmen” struck defiant poses on the battlements, creating among the spectators a frisson of righteous anger (how dare those insolent Dutchmen defend themselves!

Come to think of it, those “Dutchmen” had looked a great deal more like English religious Dissenters than they had like actual Dutchmen, who (if the grapevine was to be believed) had long ago ditched their old Pilgrimish togs (which had been inspired by Spanish fashions anyway) and now dressed like everyone else in Europe.

Every so often the tent-flaps would part, and Gomer, or one of the taciturn, pipe-smoking Dutchmen in the corners, would peer out and thrust a brick of hand-bills through the gap.

Resurgent Dutchmen were prancing around on the top, trampling and burning those French and English flags.