From him were sprung the savage Laestrygonians, Orion, the Cyclops Polyphemus, the giant Antaeus whom Hercules slew, Procrustes, and many another redoubtable being whose fortunes are elsewhere recounted.
In battle array he is resplendent,--on his head the gleaming helmet and floating plume, on his arm the leathern shield, in his hand the redoubtable spear of bronze.
He spoke firmly, but the junior officers of the staff did not exactly see how they were going to force a ford defended by a larger number of cavalry under the redoubtable Forrest.
But the young lieutenants while they watched too for their redoubtable foes had an eye also for the country.
Altogether Langeais is a redoubtable little chateau of the period, and its aspect to-day has changed but very little.
After a series of campaigns this redoubtablewarrior was defeated at Bêlasitza by the emperor Basil II.
Evidence was soon given of the importance of this new nation, when it became forced to take up arms against enemies still more redoubtable than the counts.
Thus the common danger awoke a common interest, and the splendid successes of her allies kept Holland steady in the career of patriotic energy which had its rise in the dread of her redoubtable foe.
The whole of this force, so redoubtable to the fears of despotism, consisted of only three thousand cavalry.
Here he found the redoubtable Mamai with three times that number of the fierce Tartar horsemen in his train.
To make sure of his death they had scarcely left a fighting man alive, yet to their chagrin the redoubtable Schamyl was soon again in the field.
And, as a matter of fact, that redoubtable functionary was alone with the Countess, who waited trembling till he should go.
Perhaps time alone has power over that Invisible and Redoubtable Being.
So abject is the fear entertained for these redoubtable champions among the surrounding tribes, that the mere mention of their name is enough to make a travelling party take to their heels.
He is greeted by kings, hailed by savants, and looked to by the colonizing nations as the future pioneer of political power and commercial enterprise in their behalf, as he has been the most redoubtable leader of adventure in the past.
Others say it is the dragon that guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides, and that was slain by the redoubtable Hercules.
A column of artillery and wagons, and another of infantry, moved side by side along the broad turnpike, so that if the redoubtable Forrest should wake up and make his appearance anywhere, he would be quickly brushed away.
When the redoubtable colonel came it was to be only a matter of a week or so before the opera would be put on the stage in the finest of styles; it was still a matter of a week or so when the Academy season came to an end.
With it theredoubtable Colonel Mapleson went down to his destruction in America.
The spear that conquered the world,” as a French author defines it, was the redoubtable pilum, concerning which much has been written and much disputation has arisen.
A suit of armour is preserved in the Rotunda Museum at Woolwich which is of unique interest, inasmuch as it is attributed to, and certainly is of the date of the redoubtable Chevalier Bayard.
Two or three ragged urchins soon impeded their path; one of them was the redoubtable Neil, the other Mike.
At that moment the redoubtable Pegeen did thrust in her head, holding the post-bag at arm's length away from her.
In Winnipeg he was popularly known as the man who had tamed Sitting Bull, the redoubtable Sioux of Custer Massacre fame, but others of the Police also had a hand, as we shall see, in that extraordinary experience.
To keep these rough men in order, and there were several hundreds of them mostly armed, there were only eight Mounted Police, but they were under the leadership of the redoubtable Superintendent, Sam B.
In the following May the famous and redoubtable Sitting Bull with quite a large force came over and joined the American Indian colony.
One day we were favored with a visit from theredoubtable General John H.
As we approached, the Raiders massed themselves in a strong, heavy line, with the center, against which our advance was moving, held by the most redoubtable of their leaders.
The picture of the redoubtable Cronje as he approached our great little Field-Marshal was remarkable in its contrast.
It was General Pretyman with theredoubtable Cronje riding a white pony on his right and the escort of the 12th Lancers following.
Paul Kelly, he said, was drawn into it as incident to his proprietorship of the New Brighton, while the redoubtable Razor became part of the picture only through his friendship for Ellison.
Such as Chick Tricker, Ike the Blood, Big Mike Abrams, Jack Sirocco, the Dropper, and the redoubtable Jimmy Kelly never fly and always fight.
For it is the pleasure of fate to turn the affairs of lovers topsy-turvey; and even so redoubtable a Marquise as Perdita might one day find herself discomfited in somewhat the same way that Tom was now.
The English broadsides so exceedingly astonished the Dutch that they sheered off at last, though the redoubtable Van Tromp fired upon them with his own guns for deserting their flag.
To one or other of them he was constantly turning as alternative schemes for the subjugation of his most redoubtable foe.
Meanwhile the First Consul was throwing his untiring energies into the enterprise of crushing his redoubtable foe.
My father's tales of the exploits of some of these redoubtable villains filled my mind with mingled admiration and terror.
He was a redoubtable warrior and the ring widened.
This noble invitation translated me from my dark, cold, cramped den (with its night-guard ofredoubtable cockroaches) into the light and air of a comfortable suburban home.
