What is "warbands"

Usage examples of "warbands".

Nor will noblemen be denied bodyguards and armed retainers, but the large warbands are to be dissolved.

Big enough to hold over a hundred tables for the warbands, it had four enormous hearths.

I want to know is this, how does one man slip through all those warbands and suchlike?

Both warbands were laughing too hard at the sight to give chase, much less battle.

She saw Ynydd scrambling back onto his horse just as the warbands closed around them.

Lovyan named Sligyn cadvridoc until the army should meet up with Rhodry, and in a bustle of talk and the jingle of mail, lords and warbands alike got up and began filing out of the hall.

The warbands surged forward, cheering, yelling out her name until Rhodry screamed them into silence.

Later, after the warbands drifted back to the barracks and the noble lords up to their chambers, Rhodry brought over a game of Carnoic, the finest set Cullyn had ever seen.

Captains of warbands had looked at him that same way, when he was a silver dagger back in Deverry.

The other was a priest of Bel, who announced the betrothal that very evening in the great hall, as the warbands and the servitors were lingering over their ale.

With a howl of laughter and shrieks like battle-cries, both warbands came bursting out of the broch and swept across the garden.

For a moment Jill hesitated, caught between them and the warbands, but Cullyn appeared at her side and slipped his arm through hers.

On one ground the main series of mock-combats had taken place that morning, fought by riders from the various warbands, mostly, though a couple of impoverished younger sons of the local nobility had put aside their pride and taken a place in the series.

As they worked their way along the twisting streets to the dun itself, women threw flowers and little children ran after the warbands, turning the trip into a ragged parade.

A full day and then another night had been required to prepare the warbands for the retrograde movement.