What is "welshmen"

Usage examples of "welshmen".

Howbeit, advance we did, and the Welshmen after their invariable custom withdrew before us, making no pitched stand but harrying us from the flanks, and so retreated before us with all their possessions, cattle and horses, into the mountains.

Their scouts filtered towards the border and beyond, and found no Welshmen under arms.

When his chestnut horse trod astray and stumbled in the stones of the stream-bed the knight who had crossed before him darted back into the water to take the bridle and lead him ashore, with a gesture so obsequious that Harry, used to the sturdy independence of free Welshmen, almost laughed aloud.

The Welshmen, crouching low and running like hares, overtook the two who led the laden horse only a matter of minutes before they were themselves overtaken.

The first time, he thought in the anguish of his heart, they waited without fear when the Welshmen came, knowing it must be I who brought them, and thinking no harm.

On the left Stephen’s Flemings drove the Welshmen back: but you know their way, they went but far enough and easily enough to mass again without loss, and back they came, archers almost to a man, able to pick their ground and their prey, and when the Flemish footmen ran, so did their captains—William of Ypres and Ten Eyck and all.

Seeing it was winter, however merciful at this moment, and seeing that Owain Gwynedd was considerably saner than most Welshmen, Cadfael chose to make for Tregeiriog.

Of all of us, surely your Welshmen had the least cause to wish him dead, having carried and cared for him all this way.

I have six Welshmen of the escort and Eliud yet to question and strip, and if that fails, we’ll burrow our way through the entire enclave as best we can.

But he deployed his men, and a dozen or so of Herbard’s party, like beaters after game, to herd the Welshmen back methodically into their own country.

He had been trampled in the rush of the Welshmen crossing to shore, bruises were blackening on him, but he had no other wound, and it seemed the tramping feet had broken no bones.

But by the token of the deer-horn pick I take it that it was ages ago when this happened, maybe before the days of the Welshmen whom we found here.

We saw them both at the great feast to which we were set down in an hour or so, and the great roar of cheering which went up was enough to scare the watching Welshmen from the hills beyond the river, where all day long they wondered at the thronging folk around the palace, and set their arms in order, lest Offa should come against them across the ford of the host again.

They were the watch fires of the Welshmen, and I suppose they looked at the bright glare from the palace windows as I looked at their posts.

And all in a moment I knew that these were no men of Gymbert’s, but Welshmen from the hills spying on the doings of Offa at Sutton.