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Definition of Horsemen
1. horseman [n] - See also: horseman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horsemen
Literary usage of Horsemen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1891)
"When they saw the Greek horsemen within the Phoenician camp, ... When the time
came, when the horsemen had made their way into the sea-camp of the enemy, ..."
2. Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts: Preserved in the Archi-episcopal Library by John Sherren Brewer, George Carew Totnes (1867)
"The Lord Roche's country, 36 horsemen and 100 footmen. ... 2 horsemen and 200
footmen, being McCarty More's followers. ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Ye horsemen, who have kine and horses [to give], we invoke you. Keep far from us
your arrows by ... The prayer is said, O horsemen; the song is withered. ..."
4. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1868)
"Stopped at once by this ready manoeuvre, and the the horse- nre that it brought
on their flank, the horsemen wheeled again to their left, and retreated. ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1875)
"At about two o'clock in the morning of August 26th, a large body of disguised,
fully- armed horsemen rode into the town of ..."
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