But Hector came on, and Apollo before him, with his shoulders wrapped in cloud and theaegis shield in his hand.
So he went, and Athene put heraegis about his mighty shoulders, and a golden halo about his head, making it shine as a flame of fire, even as the watch-fires shine at night from some city that is besieged.
The Aegis has the following very just remarks touching this case:--'Governor Butler belongs to a state loud in its professions of regard for state rights and state sovereignty.
Roman patriotism, too, fostered loyalty to the gods under whoseaegis Rome had grown great, and until the close of the fourth century the Roman Senate was an indefatigable champion of the ancient faith.
Legislative enactments should also be made which should spread over him the aegis of our laws, so as to afford protection to his person and property when he shall have reached his distant home.
These souvenirs--but more especially that recalling the daughter of Don Mariano--formed the aegis of the ex-student.
He appeared to have become animated with a portion of that courage, with which in the field of battle the flaming eyes of Galeana had more than once inspired him--while combating under the aegis of the marshal's death-dealing lance.
Jurists speak of a custom, when a clear and continuous habit of doing certain actions has grown up under the aegis of the conviction that these actions are legally necessary or legally right.
Under the aegis of the principle of nationality, Austria turns in 1867 into the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, and Italy as well as Germany becomes united.
Under itsaegis takes place the partial decay of the Ottoman Empire.
As we have said, chivalry did not cover with its aegis all women, but only those of a certain class; in the Middle Ages, the opinion held of women in general was not flattering to the sex.
All was created under the aegis of the great mistress of the nations, and included strong fortifications.
In her right hand she carries a lance, and by her side is the famous aegis or shield, covered with the skin of Amalthaea, the goat which nourished Jupiter; and for the boss of the shield is the head of Medusa.
The Republic of the United States of North America was founded under the aegis of the free constitutional Charter which has done so much for her prosperity and her grandeur.
All the peoples living and developing under the aegis of the British flag are determined that the British Empire is to be.
From my early youth, I had learned that under the aegis of the British Crown, the citizen of the Empire could be true to his oath, and enjoy the precious liberty of expressing his opinion.
Our "pacifists at all hazards" once more silenced, this time by the very religious leaders under whose aegisthey had shamefully tried to shield themselves, the patriotic impulse was moved to most commendable action.
The members of our party do not know the reason why the ministry are so anxious to throw the aegis of their protection over the convents, and, of course, we dare not take them into our confidence.
The sword of Paul had kept her throne from becoming the prize of the duke; and, thanks to the aegis of Britain, Czernova was safe from the aggression of Russia.
Shakespeare was at work, and Drake was voyaging under the Elizabethan aegis at the time when the great silver mines of the Mexican Sierra Madre were giving up their rich ores to treatment.
Those were the days in which a bonnet was at once the aegis and the sanctuary of beauty.
Hiram seemed to take much content in that phase of the situation, feeling that mere personal inquisitiveness was dignified in this case under the aegis of law and authority.
The process through which these examples were produced begs qualifiers different from art produced under the aegis of literate expectations.
Competing with this burlesque, a national program, Awakening of Taste, under the aegis of the Minister of Culture, was set up to encourage French students in primary schools to rediscover the true national cuisine.
Then Achilles arose, and went to the ramparts; and Athene drew near him, and threw her tasselled aegis over his shoulders, and on his head she caused a golden cloud to descend, which shot forth rays of angry light.
Even to the very walls he drove; but then he found awaiting him one mightier than Hector, even Apollo himself, who shook the aegis in his face, and warned him back.
Her aegis covers her breasts and hangs far down behind; the points of its scalloped edge once bristled with serpents' heads, and there was a Gorgon's head in the middle of the front.
Here Zeus recognizable by the thunderbolt in his outstretched right hand and the aegis upon his left arm, is pitted against three antagonists.
America freed her blacks but rests her social aegis on barter far more hideous.
Thus was the fiery lash of Nemesis bound up, thus were struck down alike the staff of Minos and the sword of Themis before the awful aegis of religion.
The Oxford Looking-Glass might serve her like the aegis of Pallas Athene, an aegis that would freeze to academic stone the self-confident chimeras of the twentieth century.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aegis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
