What is "welshman"

Usage examples of "welshman".

March, 1754, there died in Glamorganshire of mere old age and gradual decay a little Welshman, Hopkin Hopkins, aged seventeen years.

It was an inspired idea: Owen, a Liverpudlian Welshman, was a pioneer of the kitchen-sink school of television drama.

I saw Catti the Welshman yesterday on the Burford road, and old John Naps was at the Rood Fair on Barton Heath, and there is word of Pennyfarthing in the Cocking dingle.

If there was, he would probably be a Welshman from Pontypool and a rugger blue.

They were 500 in number, Victorians, New South Welshmen, and Queenslanders, the latter the larger unit, with a corps of Rhodesians.

She claimed it had been a Welshman named Ramstead who first brought the plants over to North America.

Madoc had elevated his best white Welshmen to thegnships, and they helped enforce his authority in his growing realm.

He had created thegnships for his white Welshmen and given his thegns the power of life and death over the natives in the provinces.

The huge trombonist stared up at the furious little Welshman as if he could not believe what he was hearing.

And returned to Wales and recruited colonists, and went back to the land on the far side of the Atlantic to found a settlement of God-fearing Welshmen in the New World and to convert the Aztecs and other heathen to Christianity.

At last, with a cheer, the Welshmen with their Kent and Essex comrades swept over the crest into the ranks of that cosmopolitan crew of sturdy adventurers who are known as the Johannesburg Police.

For the rest of the day the Welshmen worked glumly on the structures of their fortress, watched in vain for any reappearance of the natives, and after sunset began to be haunted again by the monotonous drumbeats from down the river.

Dale of the Hazels, and to trust to it that these Welshmen, whom they called Romans, would not follow so far, and that if they did, they might betake them to the wild-wood, and let the thicket cover them, they being so nigh to it.

That was the Welshman for you — openfaced and friendly when they spoke to you and clannishly against you behind your back.

Cylart from Carnarvon was due to the etymologising fancy of some English-speaking Welshman who interpreted the name as Killhart, so that the simpler legend would be only a folk-etymology.