His own womenfolk were trapped at home, presumably. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
"There's evidence that your womenfolk are among them.". From Wordnik.com. [Operation Haystack] Reference
Armenians and to think low thoughts about their womenfolk. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Missionary Heroes] Reference
"They seldom drag their womenfolk into battle," Call said. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
The womenfolk saw me, wrung their hands, and lamented aloud. From Wordnik.com. [In Those Days The Story of an Old Man] Reference
Now don't you be so simple as show it to any of the womenfolk. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
The womenfolk on the farm were in a pitiful state of distress. From Wordnik.com. [With Steyn and De Wet] Reference
And this is a great misfortune when it happens with womenfolk. From Wordnik.com. [In Those Days The Story of an Old Man] Reference
Until now, the womenfolk could inherit only if there were no sons. From Wordnik.com. [Daughters And Heirs] Reference
One or more of the womenfolk keep the wants of the diners supplied. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Always must the aid of womenfolk be called in as a matter of course. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
However, they found nobody but womenfolk, and returned empty-handed. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
Once we have the womenfolk, all the babies will come out black, too. From Wordnik.com. [Undead and Unworthy]
They also watched the familiar faces of the womenfolk of the House of. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
Everybody did his best, and the womenfolk especially toiled early and late. From Wordnik.com. [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference
Even in England most officers, and all privates, are cut off from their womenfolk. From Wordnik.com. [A Student in Arms Second Series] Reference
'We heard your womenfolk grieving, which they would not do for a Saracen victory.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Their waiting womenfolk heard, still unable to believe that this nightmare was real. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
You die a Roman death because you cared so well for my womenfolk when times were hard. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Without my basket and bossy womenfolk I was a citizen; slaves, of course, are invisible. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
I have been thinking that you have lingered long enough about the skirts of our womenfolk. From Wordnik.com. [Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age] Reference
The Livius Drususes have a tendency to break the spirits of their womenfolk, unfortunately. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
But he was no match for his womenfolk, who were in silent agreement that he needed activity. From Wordnik.com. [Murder to Go]
"I guess he'd better have let the Nawab keep his goods and sent you to look after his womenfolk.". From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
By this time they had reached the outer door of Aurelia's apartment, and collected the womenfolk. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
I bundled my outrageous womenfolk into their conveyance, from which they peered out unrepentantly. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
The womenfolk, who paid much more attention to such things than menfolk did, were getting frantic. From Wordnik.com. [Zombie Lover]
My two womenfolk stopped, not as I hoped to apologise, but to pin their necklines more revealingly. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
Marshal Haynau, took to flogging their wives and womenfolk in order to coax the black gentlemen back. From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
Hence, during the average "wake" the womenfolk huddle around the priestesses with many a startled glance. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
The women especially have very pronounced views of their own, a trait not confined to Netherland womenfolk. From Wordnik.com. [Dutch Life in Town and Country] Reference
By this time the patience of the centurion was exhausted, and he cried out, "Clear out now, these womenfolk.". From Wordnik.com. [King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth] Reference
Behind him, also on donkeys, rode his womenfolk, heavily veiled, and his retainers in burnous and flowing robes. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
The womenfolk are calling thee; hasten hither at their bidding along with Peace, who shall restore the festivals. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
The driver was a small, tough man in middle age with a youth at his side and two heavily swathed womenfolk in the back of the cart. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
The relatives, especially the womenfolk, display the tenderest solicitude toward them and keep them provided with an abundance of food. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Delphi, Delos and all other places; if there be a man who is plotting against the womenfolk or who, to injure them, is proposing peace to. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
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