What is "shipmen"

Usage examples of "shipmen".

Because of the appalling lack of fieldcraft exhibited by the shipmen, he was confident of his ability to kill them at any moment he chose.

In the darkness, the sluggish rivulets were not distinguishable from open patches of terrain, and two of the shipmen were lost by drowning in the slow mud drains before the leader called a halt and decided to remain in the same spot until daybreak.

At least three of the shipmen must have opened the face-bulbs of their helmets in order to cope with the high humidity.

It was on the far side of this same obstacle that the shipmen now emerged.

Bethschant climbed into a tree above them and tried to encourage a fast-creeper to disentangle from the branches and drop upon them, but the sentient vegetable refused to consider the armor-clad shipmen edible.

If the shipmen themselves could deal with the dreadful Colonel, then his main problem was solved.

He detected several groups of shipmen moving toward the area where the pod had been, and one group already engaged in setting up lights around the craters to reinforce the dim shades of early morning.

The idea of having a trail of armed shipmen following him across the open hillside was one he did not relish, but he knew that once he reached the more broken ground the advantage would be with him rather than with an armored warrior.

Largely as he had predicted, the shipmen came into the valley's foot about three hours later, and fanned out to search a broad strip of land up toward the valley's head.

Thus it was that, crouching in concealment out of the direct line of the search, they saw the group of the Pretender's armed shipmen making their sweep up the valley.

Then best hope for immediate survival would appear to be a descent by the route the shipmen had just used.

Miram feared there might be more shipmen still climbing, and in any case they would be unable to survive the forest environment without the shelter of the pod.

The sound of a human voice was bound to attract the attention of the shipmen if they were on the alert.

Soon they were facing a circle of guns, and had to stand helplessly while one of the shipmen with a communicator hysterically reported the capture to Gamin Sher.

There was much laughter from the shipmen at the ragged near-nakedness of the figures, and they concentrated on tormenting Miram by further shedding her tattered dress and taunting her with horrifying tales of how Sher would use her for amusement before killing her.