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Example sentences for "myrmidons"

Lexicographically close words:
myracle; myracles; myriad; myriads; myriapods; myrobalan; myrobalans; myrrh; myrrhine; myrrour
  1. In searching for the Emperor, Placidus and his myrmidons had scoured several apartments without success.

  2. The myrmidons of G---- were able at once to comprehend how and why such an atrocity might have been committed.

  3. On the 19th of October, the grand inquisitor proceeded with his myrmidons to the Temple at Paris, and a hundred and forty Templars were one after another put to the torture.

  4. The first was from Robert de St. Just, who had been received into the order by brother Himbert, Grand Preceptor of England, but had been arrested in France, and there tortured by the myrmidons of Philip.

  5. Then order some of your myrmidons to begin the attack; do they also lack courage?

  6. The shikari and his myrmidons departed to "look" another bit of country, while I, nothing loth, remained to await events in the neighbourhood of the refreshment department.

  7. Patroclus and his Myrmidons at once plunged into the contest where it raged hottest; at the sight of which the joyful Grecians shouted and the ships reechoed the acclaim.

  8. But the origin of the Myrmidons would not give one the idea of a fierce and bloody race, but rather of a laborious and peaceful one.

  9. And was not the host of the Myrmidons at hand for thee?

  10. Certainly they had nothing to hope for from the myrmidons of Trabue.

  11. Now he meant to carry on the war he had undertaken unaltered as to its objective of winning a victory for Harrison over Trabue and the myrmidons of A.

  12. Perhaps it is truer to say that one or two London papers did so, for a certain number relied--and with justice--on the recuperative powers of Captain Faussett and his myrmidons of the wire.

  13. This is centralisation with a vengeance, and no longer need the Provost Marshal send his myrmidons galloping far and wide in search of horse-thieves.

  14. Surrounded by the myrmidons who collect the royal dues, Ayto Kalama Work was every Friday morning to be seen seated beneath the scanty shelter of an ancient acacia, which throws its withered arms over the centre of the market-place.

  15. But the myrmidons of tyranny had outstripped his heavy footstep.

  16. She acquainted the Bow Street myrmidons of the transaction; led them first, to the place where the murdered man was found, and afterwards, to the house where she knew the ruffians had been harboured.

  17. Business," said the commander, addressing himself to his myrmidons at the fire, "business is gone to the dogs.

  18. The trifurciferous myrmidons of the Hanoverian usurper shall never take me with life.

  19. To stimulate Sirr and his myrmidons to exertion, crime was not to be prevented but committed, and a regular price must first be placed upon the offender.

  20. So long as he stayed in the Trastevere, it was not likely that the myrmidons of Tigellinus could find out his hiding-place.

  21. The mysterious strangers were a source of much gossip and great speculation, of course, to the good people of Green Isle, as we shall style this gem of the Pacific, in order to thwart the myrmidons of the law!

  22. We will not mention its name; we will not even indicate its whereabouts, lest we should furnish a clue to the unromantic myrmidons of the law, whose inflexible justice is only equaled by their pertinacity in tracking the criminal to his lair!

  23. Patroclus begged his friend to allow him to wear his armour and lead the Myrmidons out to battle, not knowing that he was entreating for his own ruin and death.

  24. Nestor meeting Patroclus, told him of the rout of the army, and advised him to beg Achilles at least to allow the Myrmidons to sally forth under Patroclus' leadership, if he would not fight in person.

  25. Fresh and eager for the battle the Myrmidons drove the Trojans back into the plain.

  26. As machinery for malevolence the "White Trash" myrmidons could not be surpassed.

  27. Your myrmidons scramble on to the top of my walls and try to bribe my servants to disclose the mysteries of my household.

  28. The latter quality is as a rule singularly absent amongst the myrmidons of Scotland Yard.

  29. All night the Myrmidons around the swift Achilles stood, deploring loud his friend, And Jove his spouse and sister thus bespake.

  30. At once the Grecians of his dazzling arms Despoil'd Sarpedon, which the Myrmidons 805 By order of Menoetius' valiant son Bore thence into the fleet.

  31. Achilles is reconciled to Agamemnon, and clothed in new armor forged by Vulcan, leads out the Myrmidons to battle.

  32. Then all the Myrmidons their radiant arms Put off, and their shrill-neighing steeds released.

  33. And now they reach'd The station where his Myrmidons abode.

  34. Achilles, at the suit of Patroclus, grants him his own armor, and permission to lead the Myrmidons to battle.

  35. Then took the Myrmidons Those splendid gifts which in the tent they lodged Of swift Achilles, and the damsels led Each to a seat, while others of his train Drove forth the steeds to pasture with his herd.

  36. His Giulia had deceived him, she was a criminal, his marriage invalid--the myrmidons of the law were already knocking at the door of his Castle!

  37. Twelve cities have I with my fleet laid waste, And with my Myrmidons have I o'erthrown Eleven upon this fertile Trojan coast.

  38. Thus was committed the deed which brought countless woes upon the Greeks, for Achilles, in deep grief and anger, vowed that he would no more lead his Myrmidons to battle for a king who had so dishonored and insulted him.

  39. Enraged at his insulting words, the chief of the Myrmidons struck him dead with a mighty blow of his fist.

  40. Great was the terror of the Trojans when they beheld the Myrmidons march forth to battle.

  41. Fierce and fearless these Myrmidons were, and over two thousand strong.

  42. If you will not yourself go to their rescue, at least permit me to lead the Myrmidons to battle, and let me wear your armor.

  43. They too tried to persuade the hero to dismiss from his mind the thought of his wrongs, and lead his brave Myrmidons once more into the field for the honor of his country.

  44. The leader of the Myrmidons cast his javelin with truer aim, for it pierced the Lycian chief right in the breast, and the hero fell like a tall pine tree falling in the forest at the last blow of the woodman's ax.

  45. Then the great chief himself marshaled his Myrmidons in battle array, after which he addressed them, bidding them fight valiantly.

  46. They say the Myrmidons returned home safely under Achilles' son Neoptolemus; so also did the valiant son of Poias, Philoctetes.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "myrmidons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.