How To Use Yeoman In A Sentence

Huge crowds are expected to file past the coffin, which will be guarded by a contingent of Gentlemen at Arms and Yeoman of the Guard.
They were wed by special dispensation at St Mary's Church in Shrewton on Monday afternoon in a ceremony performed by Royal Yeomanry padre Simon Bloxam-Rose.
MTB" and Mr. Borel handled the track with yeoman qualities, it made me cry. Boston.com Most Popular
Thoughtful jazz lovers of all degrees of musical literacy ought to be delighted and enlightened by Gioia's yeomanly effort.
Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.

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At this stage a party of yeomanry opened fire and when the firing ceased 14 people, including a married woman and two boys (one the son of a yeoman) were shot dead.
The monarchy was now dominant, the nobles largely feudalized, the clergy (with royal grants) powerful, the bourgeoisie vigorous (fisheries and cattle raising), the yeoman class strong and independent. E. Scandinavia
He had been Lord Marchmain's servant in the yeomanry.
Hardly the Virginia cavalier of legend, Ashby was successful because he understood and appealed to the yeoman characteristics of the people of the Valley and the men whom he led.
Don Yeomans, NASA senior research scientist Q: Is there a planet or brown dwarf called Nibiru or Planet X or Eris that is approaching the Earth and threatening our planet with widespread destruction?
The freemen were the inhabitants of chartered towns, and in some countries the yeomanry, or small farmers, who did not hold their lands by a regular feudal tenure. General History for Colleges and High Schools
During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars the British regular army remained fairly small, but home defence forces such as yeomanry, volunteers, and fencibles proliferated.
Still, it is a pity to see so fair a maid cast like rotten bait upon the waters to hook this troutlet of a yeoman. Eric Brighteyes
In 1996, Yeoman's major customer made what she considered an insultingly low offer for her business.
In Britain, regulars and the part-time yeomanry, though placed at the disposal of local magistrates, disgraced themselves by firing on the crowds at Peterloo in 1819 and at Queen Caroline's funeral in 1821.
We do appreciate and acknowledge the yeoman service rendered by Sourav Ganguly as captain of the Indian cricket team.
The plain Anglo-Saxon yeoman strain which was really the basis of his nature now asserted itself in the growing conservatism of ideas which marked the last forty years of his life. A History of English Literature
Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.
His silks, his plaited hair, his very foreign-ness seemed out of place amongst the low oak beams and sturdy yeoman furniture.
The yeoman-keeper, therefore, our friend Joceline, had constructed, for his own accommodation, and that of the old woman he called his dame, a wattled hut, such as his own labour, with that of a neighbour or two, had erected in the course of a few days. Woodstock
Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.
: one unduly fearful of what is foreign and especially of people of foreign origin yeoman Archive 2003-10-01
'Was it not a shame,' he said, 'that she should exhibit herself before any gentleman in such a light, as if she shed tears for a drove of horned nolt and milch kine, like the daughter of a Cheshire yeoman! Waverley — Complete
Perhaps the best known episode in the life of O'Donohoe was when he killed a Yeoman captain in his forge after he had been forced to shoe his horse.
Randal's seconder was a bluff yeoman, an outvoter of weight with the agricultural electors. My Novel — Volume 12
The Wiltshire Yeomanry, the oldest yeomanry unit in the British Army, paraded through Devizes on Sunday to celebrate ten years since it was granted the Freedom of the Town.
The poorly-educated son of a yeoman farmer, his social graces, and those of his wife, left something to be desired.
But surely the Yeoman would have lit the way with a lanthorn...' Alpiew placed the kettle on the hook and swung it over the fire. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
By 1901 there were 230,000 volunteers, augmented by the Royal Navy and Royal Artillery Volunteers, the militia and the yeomanry.
He wore, it is true, a new and jaunty hunting-shirt of dressed deer-skin, as yellow as gold, and fringed and furbelowed with shreds of the same substance, dyed as red as blood-root could make them; but was otherwise, to the view, a plain yeoman, endowed with those gifts of mind only which were necessary to his station, but with the virtues which are alike common to forest and city. Nick of the Woods
For cold weather wear there was a navy blue cape. The normal Yeoman's rating badge was worn on the jacket's left sleeve.
He called his poem a "romaunt," and his valet, poor Fletcher, a "stanch yeomán," and peppered his stanzas thinly with _sooths_ and _wights_ and_ whiloms_, but he gave over this affectation in the later cantos and made no further excursions into the Middle Ages. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
As to replevying Yeomans's stock that was arrested by the sheriff, 1 look upon it to be very illegal, because when once any thing is in the custody of the law nothing but a judgm 'of law can remove it. Collections
The volunteer forces, especially the yeomanry, had been politically dependable.
Throughout the medieval period the term yeoman was used within the royal and noble households to indicate a servant's rank, degree, position or status.
'What you two pirates need,' says the admiral's yeoman, 'is to learn a little respect for the shore-going departments where your orders are made out,' and goes back to his office and takes that hose-pipe communication and reads through the sixty-seven endorsements again, and then he carefully typewrites on a new leaf: Wide Courses
Its Norman characteristic is found in the young _ecuyer_ or squire, of Chaucer, who aspires to equal his father in station and renown; while the English type of the man-at-arms (_l'homme d'armes_) is found in their attendant yeoman, the English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
The early Republican ideal of the yeoman farmer was giving way to the virtues of urban capitalism and concern for, or fear of, the urban masses.
Boards of highly paid, bonus-rich directors seem to be bunkered down behind a dithering yeomanry of press officers and media advisers as the regulatory cavalry charges in.
Captain Kirk, I am not going to go with those Proctors to some suboceanic cave as an experimental animal unless you give me a direct order to do so," Yeoman Janice Rand said firmly. The Abode of Life
In England, Mat, they call a freehold farmer a yeoman. John Bull's Other Island
The yeomanry arrive, Gerard is killed, Lord Marney stoned to death by rioters, Morley shot, and the castle burned down.
‘This is my fifth year coaching at the provincials,’ said Yeomans.
Gary was assigned basic training in Orlando ... serving as Operations Yeoman and Squadron Admin Awards Petty Officer.
After years of yeomanly service, it had begun to falter.
Champagne seems like a yeomanlike writer, one who can give you a decent story but won't dazzle you. What I bought – 5 December 2007 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
As a young Yeoman Petty Officer, Hal was assigned to the U.S.S. COLORADO.
A world of possibilities: Yeoman 2nd Class (AW/SW) Aaron Palacio individual augmentee. Of Davids and Goliaths: Letter to Barack Obama
After Chief Yeoman and Howle Hill took the lead rounding the final bend, Made in Japan moved to challenge at the last flight.
Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.
Such were the sixty thousand trade unionists who met in St Peter's Fields in Manchester in August 1819 and were greeted by the yeomanry, who charged at them with sabres, killing 11 and wounding around four hundred.
Café Rabelais is a likable, yeomanly restaurant that stays true to its mission and keeps trying to improve.
He did a yeomanly job of handling all of the style demands of such a diverse selection of compositions.
The Royal Yeomanry band played the Regimental Anthem as we all marched along with the Squadron's guidon, or colours, swords and guns with fixed bayonets.
Essentially, the White Yeomanry Economy is a kind of particular transition between the Petty Peasant Economy and the Agricultural Commodity Economy.
The yeomanry were a particular kind of cavalry.
Goodman Mascall, Goodman Cockswet, etc., and in matters of law these and the like are called thus, _Giles Jewd, yeoman; Edward Mountford, yeoman; James Cocke, yeoman; Harry Butcher, yeoman_, etc.; by which addition they are exempt from the vulgar and common sorts. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
There a yeoman armed with a rusty ax that might have been swung at Hastings, clad in patched wadmal, preceded a scolding wife burdened with their bedding and cooking pot, and half a dozen children clinging to her skirts. The High Crusade
The old Yeomanry guidon and uniforms are displayed in the museum there.
The vile practice of snuff-dipping prevails sometimes also among the wives and daughters of the Yeomanry, and even occasionally among otherwise intelligent members of the Southern Middle Social relations in our Southern States,
Beefeaters are originally called yeoman warders, originally assigned in the 15th century to guard high profile prisoners. CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2007
[468] According to Walter Harte, though the yeoman in the middle of the seventeenth century ate bread of rye and barley (maslin), in 1766 even the poor cottagers looked upon it with horror and demanded best wheaten bread. A Short History of English Agriculture
In the northern western corner of the county we have Hacketstown, the scene of two desperate engagements between the insurgents and the yeomanry in 1798.
The word yeoman is often used as an equivalent term and sometimes the original Scandinavian form _bonde_ is used in English. Fritiofs Saga
I may instance his derivation of dismal from Latin dies mali, unpropitious days, derided by Trench, but now known to be substantially correct, and his intelligent conjecture that the much discussed word yeoman 'seemeth to be one word made by contraction of yong man,' an etymology quite recently revived — July 1921 — by the Oxford Dictionary. On Dictionaries
“And, by the Saint Christopher at my baldric,” said the good yeoman, “were there no other cause than the safety of that poor faithful knave, Wamba, I would jeopard a joint ere a hair of his head were hurt.” Ivanhoe
These others of whom we have spoken, the yeoman who never aspired beyond the yeoman's position, are as ancient and as "worshipful" -- to use an old and disused term -- as they. The Toilers of the Field
Magistrates from the city claimed the rally was the start of a revolution, and unleashed the yeomanry on the unarmed and peaceful crowd, butchering 11 people and leaving over 400 wounded.
(The yeoman farmers hit the moonshine, whereas caffeine, a stimulant, is the drug for our age.) On the Playing Fields of Suburbia
He proposed to set up there a national fertilising farm to be named OMPHALOS with an obelisk hewn and erected after the fashion of Egypt and to offer his dutiful yeoman services for the fecundation of any female of what grade of life soever who should there direct to him with the desire of fulfilling the functions of her natural. Ulysses
When Miller had offered his biography in the wake of Winslow's, he had simply shrugged off his competitor's contribution as a yeomanly effort - solid, thorough, reliable, and entirely beside the point.
Later, when their peerage was conferred, they lost a little of their yeoman simplicity, and became peruked and robed and breeched; one, indeed, in the age of George III., who was blessed with poetical aspirations, appeared in bare feet and a Michael
These folks here at the sheriff's office have done a yeoman's job for the citizens of this county.
Mr. Baring is at his yeomanry, so we are quite alone. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Crossed quills (quill feather pens) would be a Yeoman (clerical job), and a book with a quill is a Personnelman (also clerical). Rank and Specialty
“Excuse me, Admiral, I have Captain Bonelli on the secure line,” called the yeoman from the doorway of his office. Pressure Point
It was a yeomanry regiment, I think perhaps the Warwickshires.
I saw enough to conclude, that Ancennis was not without the characteristic French elegance; and I must once for all say, that the manners of Marmontel are founded in nature, and that the daughters of the yeomanry and humbler farmers in France have an elegance, a vivacity, and a pleasantry, which is no where to be found out of France. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 2-Star event is the second of three stops on the 2008 Macy's California Trifecta Surf Series (an ASP North America Specialty Series), and Yeomans 'emphatic victory vaults the phenomenal goofy-footer into the lead heading intp the third and final stop in Santa Cruz this October. Transworld Surf
With this in mind, Yeomans is teaming up with Bafta sponsors Lancôme and British red-carpet queen Kate Winslet to host a getting-to-know-each-other cocktail party for the fashion and film worlds on the first day of London fashion week, at which British designers such as Christopher Kane and Roksanda Ilincic will get the chance to chat up nominees in the hope of dressing them for the red carpet. The Guardian World News
My only nonpositive comment about the NASA TV coverage was statements made by Don Yeomans (JPL): “We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for comets ..” Stardust
First, he had there a dean, a great divine, and a man of excellent learning; and a sub-dean, a repeater of the choir, a gospeller, an epistler of the singing-priests, and a master of the children: in the vestry a yeoman and two grooms, besides other retainers that came thither at principal feasts .... The Customs of Old England
Petty Officer, U.S. Navy enlisted rate insignia; comparative military ranks ... such as MM for Machinist's Mate, QM for Quartermaster, or YN for Yeoman.
On the other hand, if it goes through what we call a keyhole during that close Earth approach … then it will indeed be perturbed just right so that it will come back and smack Earth on April 13, 2036," Yeomans said. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
In other words, whose servant is the yeoman, the squire's servant or the knight's servant?
During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars the British regular army remained fairly small, but home defence forces such as yeomanry, volunteers, and fencibles proliferated.
Amongst the crowd, whether on or off horses, the old fashioned accents of the gentry were mingled with the softer burr of the yeoman farmers and the downright rusticity of the less well-off.
It is at this point that we see the emergence of the yeoman farmer: a peasant smallholder with up to 100 acres of land.
A government yeomanry corps had also been raised in 1796.
Yet, mine honest Friar, I think it would be best both for the church and thyself, that I should procure a license to unfrock thee, and retain thee as a yeoman of our guard, serving in care of our person, as formerly in attendance upon the altar of Saint Dunstan. '' Ivanhoe
The hoplite's presence on the battlefield was a reflection of his own free status in the polis community and thus reinforced his privileged position as a free yeoman farmer and voting citizen.
Foster Yeoman sees potential in selling spare capacity on its trains to other users.
The difference between an independent yeoman and a second-rate handyman is independence. The Suicide Of Marlboro Man « Isegoria
The Northamptonshire Yeomanry was now launched forward again to exploit this success, only to run into Peiper's Panthers and more StuG IIIs in hull-down firing positions.
He was the fifth Richard Gough in succession to live as a small freeholder and yeoman farmer at Newton.
Thanks to some yeomanlike batting from Graeme Swann and Jimmy Anderson, England had reached 356 and the game was, for the time being, safe. Test cricket at its best
US Navy yeoman Jack Adams witnessed the war in the Pacific.
The charming chaplain is going to show me into secret crannies of the Tower where even the Yeoman Warders dare not go, ladies. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
He seems like a cheery yeoman farmer. Times, Sunday Times
They did not claim to be victims; they presented as a rugged, stoical, independent, self-reliant yeomanry.
Praise and promise were far beyond any desert or hope of mine, but I said boldly, "I am no gentleman, but just a plain, few-acred yeoman, who has tried to serve your daughter -- The Yeoman Adventurer
One by one the archers, stepping forward, delivered their shafts yeomanlike and bravely. Ivanhoe
The word yeoman was under stood in the old English sense of the small independent farmers. The Lincoln Story Book
One is a canon; the other his yeoman (servant). The Host welcomes them and asks whether either has a tale to tell.
Suddenly the yeoman farmers turned themselves into yeoman scientists, yeoman doctors and yeoman teachers. Times, Sunday Times
But some had administrative jobs as female yeomen , so-called yeomanettes, in the Naval Reserve and Coast Guard.
If Yeoman treated her employees like family, she treated her customers like royalty.
A yeomanly tear was pricking at the corner of my eye as I stepped out across a small junction and was nearly mown down by a scooter.
And, within the great hall, she was greeted by Master Parry, her cofferer, Master Runyon, her yeoman of the robes, and Master Mitchell, the feodary. Historic girls; stories of girls who have influenced the history of their times,
The Protestant yeomanry still rode around the countryside intent on driving home the lessons of 1798: Rebellion will be punished!
Yeoman of the Guard since bluff King Henry's time, and expected to hear something from you about the Field of the Cloth of Gold, -- and I thought of asking you the colour of Anne Bullen's breastknot, which cost the Pope three kingdoms; but I am afraid you are but a novice in such recollections of love and chivalry. Peveril of the Peak
He claims to be flattered that I called his book on O. Henry a 'yeomanlike piece of work.' Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Revolution was not to be encouraged, though, and the yeomanry turned protest into a bloodbath at Peterloo.
A market revolution occurred as a yeoman and cash crop agriculture and capitalist manufacturing replaced artisan economy.
Considering the disaster the President inherited, he has done yeoman's work in pulling us back from the brink of disaster. 'People have a right to be grouchy,' Axelrod says
The English yeoman left for them a keg of ale, or a basket of loaves, beneath the hollins green, as sauce for their meal of "nombles of the dere. Hereward, the Last of the English
Others quickly followed, and in 1794 we find a regiment was raised in Forfar called the Forfar Yeomanry or Angus The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919
She strode towards the priest, her dark eyes flashing like lightning in the radiance of Yeoman Jones ' torch. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Many junior ratings include the word 'man', such as seaman, airman, dentalman, hospitalman, yeoman and mineman. Times, Sunday Times
It has done yeoman's service in powering the world's agricultural machinery to cultivate ever greater expanses of land. The Industry Everybody Takes for Granted
“Bring the stout smith to the council house,” said the bailie, as a mounted yeoman pressed through the crowd and whispered in his ear, “Here is a good fellow who says the Knight of Kinfauns is entering the port.” The Fair Maid of Perth
Jefferson, the elegant thinker, began his public life arguing from rights to defiance, while the rough-hewn Jackson, the son of an actual immigrant yeoman and a mother who hoped he would enter the ministry, unphilosophical as a point of pride, spoke from experience when he wrote: “Every man with a gun in his hand, all Europe combined cannot hurt us.” The Chosen Peoples
The son of a yeoman farmer, he was one of those remarkable men of the Victorian age.
Rather would we choose the "russet Yeas and honest kersey Noes" of sturdy yeoman speech; and cheerfully taking the head of our well-stocked table, ask in homely terms that Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
Beyond sitting in both Houses of Parliament, Willoughby fulfilled his hereditary responsibilities as an enthusiastic member of the Warwickshire Yeomanry.

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