Townsmen

The voice scissored off words: "It concerns those personnel, sir, whom you recall the townsmen took into custody." ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1974)

It limited the rights of the lord in calling the townsmen before his court and fining them, and enumerated the taxes which he might exact from the townspeople. ❋ James Harvey Robinson (1899)

He warns Walsingham against yielding to the wishes of "townsmen" at such a critical juncture, for they would look for the like concession at other times. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The plan of appointing a body of "townsmen," or selectmen, to sit between meetings of the towns began in February, ❋ Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1894)

Your townsmen certainly act with a spirit which does them great honour; and the prospect of your continuing your trade for the support of your children is what I most ardently wish'd for. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It might be in a saloon with jingled townsmen, or with a genial railroad man well lighted up and armed with pocket flasks, or with a bunch of alki stiffs in a hang-out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In one scene the townsmen assemble in the saloon to chose a delegate to the statehood convention. ❋ Mira Schor (2011)

Just find the kind of townsmen and townswomen who can help. ❋ Robert Schwab (2011)

There are six portraits from 1987 by the late Bruce Wrighton of his fellow Binghamton, N.Y., townsmen, each truly rendered. ❋ William Meyers (2011)

TIERRA AMARILLA, Chile -- Fifty miles from a rescue operation poised to extract 33 miners trapped deep underground, Emilio Gonzalez pondered the fate of a pair of townsmen who went down into the mine together in August. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

TIERRA AMARILLA, Chile — Fifty miles from a rescue operation poised to extract 33 miners trapped deep underground, Emilio Gonzalez pondered the fate of a pair of townsmen who went down into the mine together in August. ❋ Matt Moffett (2010)

Ter Brugghen and several of his townsmen became known as the Utrecht Caravaggisti. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But all day long his heart was even more heavily distracted than his fellow townsmen, for he wanted nothing more than to be with his cherished princess, comforting her in this frightening time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Eighty of his fellow townsmen subsequently joined the pack that frantic spring; six were dead, of Indians or illness, before summer came. ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)