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Definition of Swordmen
1. swordman [n] - See also: swordman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swordmen
Literary usage of Swordmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scotch-Irish in America by Henry Jones Ford (1915)
"In a letter, October 8, 1609, he says that "idlers and swordmen everywhere ...
Another ship was about departing from Carlingford when the swordmen seized ..."
2. The History of the Worthies of England by Thomas Fuller (1840)
"... in not ranking them according to their own desires; the rather because there
always hath been a battle royal about precedency betwixt 1. swordmen and ..."
3. The history of the worthies of England by Thomas Fuller (1840)
"... in not ranking them according to their own desires; the rather because there
always hath been a battle royal about precedency betwixt 1. swordmen and ..."
4. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"... as Lilburne suspected—the cry was raised " that the people would 'have no
swordmen, no deci- P°rts- mator, or any that receives salary from the State to ..."
5. Wit and Humour: Selected from the English Poets ; with an Illustrative Essay by Leigh Hunt (1846)
"2 Sw. Two blows o' th' face, and given by a worse man, I must confess, as the
swordmen say, had turn'd The business: Mark me, brother, by a worse man: But, ..."
6. Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay by Leigh Hunt (1890)
"Enter BESSUS, with the two swordmen. Serv. They are enter'd, sir, already. Baf.
... Now, to your swordmen: What come they for, good Captain Stockfish ? Ses. ..."
7. The Scotch-Irish in America by Henry Jones Ford (1915)
"In a letter, October 8, 1609, he says that "idlers and swordmen everywhere ...
Another ship was about departing from Carlingford when the swordmen seized ..."
8. The History of the Worthies of England by Thomas Fuller (1840)
"... in not ranking them according to their own desires; the rather because there
always hath been a battle royal about precedency betwixt 1. swordmen and ..."
9. The history of the worthies of England by Thomas Fuller (1840)
"... in not ranking them according to their own desires; the rather because there
always hath been a battle royal about precedency betwixt 1. swordmen and ..."
10. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"... as Lilburne suspected—the cry was raised " that the people would 'have no
swordmen, no deci- P°rts- mator, or any that receives salary from the State to ..."
11. Wit and Humour: Selected from the English Poets ; with an Illustrative Essay by Leigh Hunt (1846)
"2 Sw. Two blows o' th' face, and given by a worse man, I must confess, as the
swordmen say, had turn'd The business: Mark me, brother, by a worse man: But, ..."
12. Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay by Leigh Hunt (1890)
"Enter BESSUS, with the two swordmen. Serv. They are enter'd, sir, already. Baf.
... Now, to your swordmen: What come they for, good Captain Stockfish ? Ses. ..."
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