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Beef-eaters, who guard the Tower, also called the Yeomen of the Guard.
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This man belonged to a body that is called the Yeomen of the Guard.
Rollo in London Jacob Abbott 1841
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A body called the Yeomen of the Guard, consisting of 100 men, remains a curious relic of the dress of the King's guards in the fifteenth century.
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The Beef-eaters are otherwise called the Yeomen of the Guard.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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Mine was the Yeomen, which is like some kind of farmer?
Crushable 2010
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'Yeomen' is as much a keyword for what is to come as a reflection of audience.
Even in a little thing gillpolack 2006
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I used to think the 'Yeomen' sentimental tosh, but it is all too true.
Strong Poison Sayers, Dorothy L. 1930
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Yeomen of the Guard, The Gilbert and Sullivan, 5–7
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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The Yeomen farmers of the revolutionary war period were worried about their families starving to death, that is why they went back to their farms.
Mueller on Iraq, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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TDL: The Yeomen farmers of the revolutionary war period were worried about their families starving to death, that is why they went back to their farms.
Mueller on Iraq, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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