To this the Manda set themselves with extraordinary and rapid success.
The Manda burned Calah, and swept on as far as the border of Egypt, when they were turned back only by Psamthek’s gold.
The latter calls upon theManda to help repel the invaders.
Thus we get an idea of the ambitions and achievements of the Manda after the fall of Nineveh.
If no violent end came to a victorious people, such as the Manda now were, it could not be long before the rich plains, the wealthy cities, and the great waterways of Babylonia would tempt them southward and the great clash would come.
Professor Sayce thus explains it: “When in the generations which succeeded Darius Hystaspes, Cyrus became the founder of the Persian empire, the Medes and the Manda were confounded one with the other.
I have myself little doubt that theManda over whom Astyages ruled were the Scythians of classical tradition, who, as may be gathered from a text published by Mr. Strong, had occupied the ancient kingdom of Ellipi.
It is even possible that in the Madyes of Herodotos, we have a reminiscence of the Manda of the cuneiform inscriptions.
In that case Neriglissor’s warlike enterprises were not crowned with brilliant success, or at all events did not expel the Manda from Mesopotamia altogether.
Sin-shar-ishkun was indeed driven back, but when that happened theManda were in the coveted land.
The Manda secure the old land of Assyria, together with the northern provinces as far as the river Halys.
The reader will observe that we have just spoken of the Manda and not the Medes as the assailants of Nineveh.
Of this type was the picture of 1888, A Woman returning from Milking, "Manda Lametrie, Fermiere.
In Shela was a rich merchant, and one day he gave out in the bazaar: "I will pay one hundred dollars to whosoever will go and sleep alone one night on the opposite shore, in Manda island.
Manda paused in her dishwashing to regard him with a warm and beaming glance which expressed entire sympathy with him in his flight.
As he sat and fished, 'Manda could watch him from the kitchen window and his mother could gloat over him from a window above.
She changed her dress for her usual morning apparel and put away the remains of his breakfast which he had placed on a chair outside his door, so that 'Manda might not suspect the strange doings of the night, then she went into the study.
He sat down with 'Manda and an old-time concert began.
The house was in perfect order, 'Manda was singing in the kitchen, and she had a short breathing space.
The table shone with its array of old silver, and upon the meal 'Manda had done her best.
With the same care he stole back through the shrubbery to the kitchen door and succeeded, after ludicrous blunders, in getting through 'Manda the volume which he sought.
His clear and steady tenor took the melody from her, lifted it and went on with it, the deep tones of 'Manda proceeding undisturbed.
Manda was loath to leave upon such occasions and sat long after the hour when she was usually in the colored settlement.
Never before in all the long journey had the famous six-mule team gone without Manda prancing as off leader.
We took Manda all the way, and no handsomer animal ever journeyed across the plains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manda" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
