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Example sentences for "artemisium"

Lexicographically close words:
arte; arted; artel; artels; artem; arter; arteria; arterial; arteries; arterioles
  1. While Leonidas was guarding Thermopylæ, the Grecian fleet took its station nearly opposite to him at Artemisium and the coast of Eubœa.

  2. Destruction of the Persian Hosts During these same days the Greek fleet at Artemisium fought three several engagements with the Persian fleet, in which neither side had much the better.

  3. Therefore the Greeks resolved to make their stand at Thermopylæ on land, and at the strait of Artemisium by sea.

  4. The fights at Artemisium foreshadowed a day when the rival fleets would no longer meet and part on equal terms, but Persia would have to acknowledge herself inferior.

  5. The fleet at Artemisium was not the entire Greek naval force; on another occasion it might be augumented, while their own could scarcely expect to receive reinforcements.

  6. About the same time naval engagements off Artemisium in Euboea, with two hundred and seventy-one sail.

  7. Cities: Oreus, with the headland of Artemisium on the north, in the centre Chalcis, Eretria.

  8. Its length stretches from north to south, bordered by the mountain range of Mænalus on the west, and of Artemisium and Parthenion on the east.

  9. Beacons apprized the Greek station at Artemisium of these disasters, and the fleet retreated for a while to Chalcis, with a view of guarding the Euripus.

  10. Although they had sent to Artemisium the principal defence of the common cause, now, when the storm rolled towards themselves, none appeared on their behalf.

  11. S 1); similarly the walls of the Artemisium at Ephesus contained a number of decrees (ibid.

  12. The hands which carved some of the ivories found in the earliest Artemisium at Ephesus worked on artistic traditions derived ultimately from the Tigris.

  13. His father Kleinias fought bravely at Artemisium in a trireme fitted out at his own expense, and subsequently fell fighting the Boeotians, in the battle of Koronea.

  14. This Artemisium is a promontory of the island of Euboea, stretching northwards beyond Hestiaea; and opposite to it is Olizon, which was once part of the dominions of Philoktetes.

  15. In the first place, Artemisium is contracted from a wide space of the Thracian sea into a narrow frith, which lies between the island of Sciathus and the continent of Magnesia.

  16. If you should care to hunt up the kite sticks, you would find that they, too, are now artemisium plated.

  17. Of course, Hall's success led to an immediate recrudescence of the efforts to extract artemisium from the Syx ore, and, equally of course, every such attempt failed.

  18. Free artemisium put me in mind of it," replied Hall, quizzically.

  19. After this Syx's apparitions rapidly increased in frequency, followed in each instance by the announcement of another productive artemisium mill.

  20. Artemisium quickly won its way in popular favor.

  21. The public curiosity in regard to the origin of artemisium was boundless.

  22. Ten thousand artemisium mills shot their etheric rays upon the moon, and our unfortunate satellite's metal ribs were stripped by atomic force.

  23. Six weeks later the financial centres of the earth were shaken by the news that a new supply of artemisium was being marketed from a mill which had been secretly opened in the Sierras of California.

  24. Now let me show you pure artemisium issuing from the furnace.

  25. The battles of Artemisium and Salamis occurred in the same year, B.

  26. The sea-fights of Artemisium followed, in which the advantage was, though not decisively, with the Greeks; and that they finally retreated was owing to the success of the Persians at Thermopylae.

  27. Between the first and second battle of Artemisium the Persians suffered from another storm, which inflicted great losses upon them.


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