We could see they regarded us as unworthy of being even transient participants of Kultur when we opined that no American man would accept a challenge, and if so unwise as to do so, his womenfolk would lock him up until he reached a sounder judgment!

But fain would I shun blood and battle, and fain would I not deal sorrow to womenfolk and wives because good stout yeomen lose their lives.

No, not Gaynor's; rather the friends of Gaynor's womenfolk.

Ben, leaving his oldest and most dependable timber-jack to look out for the womenfolk, hastened back to the lumber-camp, where he returned like a fish to water to his old pipe and old clothes and roomy boots.

"If it suits his womenfolk, I guess Ben will stand for it.

Germans and their womenfolk crowd the streets; many of the former quite young and obvious deserters, the latter, thick of body and thicker of ankle, walk the town unmolested.

"I am a good Catholic, most reverend father; I keep the mariegole; every year I go to confession," protests some sturdy gondolier, who has been made anxious by his womenfolk.

A splendid warrior; in private life a bit of a Don Juan, perhaps; but his womenfolk bear him no grudge on this score, liking themselves to sail easy through matrimonial seas.

The natives always added that they would never be able to face their womenfolk again if there had been fighting and they not in it.

All he could tell me, however, was that there were certainly some strange rumours abroad among the womenfolk, but that for his own part he had never heard of any crime and had never seen any ghost.

Athletics tend to improve the standard, but there must be proper material to work upon, and M. Zola, I found, held the view that for a race to be healthy its womenfolk should be willing and able to discharge the primary duties of Nature.

The Lensmand's assistant had said: "I don't care about paying for a horse's keep myself; I've no more hay than my womenfolk can get it in by themselves while I'm away on duty.

Now they can see him from the house, and all the womenfolk come out; Inger carries little Rebecca on her arm, though little Rebecca has learned to walk by herself long since.

But there they comefour womenfolk, big and smallhurrying with straining eyes down towards the miracle, flocking down to see.

And, at long last, the womenfolk go back home.

Notepaper with a flower in the corner, and a new pipe and a new shirt, and a fringed neckerchiefsweets for the womenfolk, and shiny things, a watch-chain with a compass, a pocket-knifeoh, a host of things.

Gustaf has been a splendid lad at the stonework, heaving and lifting like a bear; and in the evenings, a joy and delight to all, playing his mouth-organ, not to speak of helping the womenfolk, carrying heavy pails to and from the river.

"'Tis sixteen hundred Kroner" says Andresen. Ho, and Inger claps her hands at once to hear it, for if there is one thing womenfolk have no sense nor thought of, 'tis the price of land and properties.

It was in the day when womenfolk used to wear loose plaits in their hair; and Andresen, he was the man to sell loose plaits.

Germany's retort, eight days later, by bombarding Scarborough and Whitby, reveals the normal Hun: Come where you willthe seas are wide; And choose your Daythey're all alike; You'll find us ready when we ride In calm or storm and wait to strike; Butif of shame your shameless Huns Can yet retrieve some casual traces Please fight our men and ships and guns, Not womenfolk and watering places.

One of the most intolerable forms of the arrogance of the Knights during their last years at Malta was their disgusting behaviour towards the womenfolk of the natives; complaint was dangerous and futile.

A care-free, laughter-loving, brave company, with every man a rider to make his womenfolk prate of his skill to all who would listen; with every man a lover of love and of life and the primitive joys of life.

For these yokels and their womenfolk the matter had passed altogether beyond their ken.

The men, toothose who had come as spectatorswere gradually edging away; some walked off with their womenfolk, others hung back in groups of three or four discussing the most hospitable place to which 'twere best to adjourn.

The Boche does not at all like meeting men whose womenfolk he has dishonoured or mutilated, or used as a protection against bullets.