How To Use Centurion In A Sentence
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Leigh Centurions step into the cauldron of the new National League One with a tough double header awaiting them over the Easter holiday.
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Slowly the world started to leak in to her mind, her eyes started to identify shapes; she could see the centurions crowded around her whispering.
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Centurions took their title from the fact that they commanded a century.
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But the supervising centurions kept on barking, barking, barking to strike hard and strike accurately, and as the process proceeded down the line of decuries it became more workmanlike, quicker.
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In Colchester museum, the tombstone of a Roman centurion stands a few feet above the spot where he had lain for centuries, a poignant bridging of time and space.
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The Roman centurion can return and enforce the evacuation but he can't open up responses.
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Both the blacksmith, my grandfather on my mother's side, and my father had been centurions and both were retired, but the Legion is something that never leaves you and Remus stood a fair chance.
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This text from Acts is probably a synopsis of a sermon given by Peter for the benefit of the Roman centurion, Cornelius, who was a person of faith.
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He was dressed like a centurion, with titanium armor protecting his every body part.
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In response, imperial military personnel were dispatched: four commanders, chiliarchs, and centurions from the capital were each given 30 skilled cavalry troops to patrol trouble spots around Liangxiang.
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sweeping by," in gorgeous paludaments, Paulus or Marius, girt round by a company of centurions, with the crimson tunic hoisted on a spear, and followed by the _alalagmos_ of the Roman legions.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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Some of the men too were occupied in faking of cod; for there being two Newfoundland fifhermen in the Centurion, the commodore fet them about laying in a confiderable quantity of falted cod for a lea-ftorc, though very little or it was ufed, as it was afterward thought to be as productive of the fcurvy, as any other kind of fait provifions.
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Tametsi enim Paulus agnosceret, se in Dei providentia navigare, qui ipse dixerat, oportet te et Romae testificari (Act.xxiii. 11): qui insuper promiserat dixeratque: Jactura nulla erit ullius animae, nec cadet pilus de capite vestro (Act.xxvii. 22, 34); nihilominus meditantibus fugam nautis, dicit idem ille Paulus centurioni et militibus: Nisi hi in navi manserint, vos servari non poteritis (ver.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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In most cases, a censor and a chiliarch or centurion from the Imperial Guard were ordered to jointly oversee campaigns to apprehend brigands.
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Privately, they concede it's ludicrous that God would incinerate those who seek divine truth according to whatever light is available to them; they leave plenty of room for Gandhi and the good Samaritan and the humble tax collector and the strong-willed Roman centurion to achieve "eternal life," whether or not they knew to "confess Jesus of Nazareth as sole lord and savior.
Rob Asghar: How Gandhi-Hating Kills Christianity
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He was dressed like a centurion, with titanium armor protecting his every body part.
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The name of Longinus first appeared in a collection of early Christian texts known as the Apocrypha, where he was described as a centurion who had served his legion faithfully before poor eyesight ended his battlefield career.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS
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He therefore ordered his heaviest ship, the _Cornwall_, 74, to go there from the centre, exchanging places with the _Centurion_, 50, and at the same time signalled the fleet to close _to the centre_, -- a detail worth remembering in view of Rodney's frustrated manoeuvre of April 17th,
The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence
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The Roman legions came from all over the world: the centurion could have belonged to any of a dozen faiths.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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These passwords had to be repeated by the palace guards, who were grizzled old centurions given guard duty as a kind of honorable semi-retirement.
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In most cases, a censor and a chiliarch or centurion from the Imperial Guard were ordered to jointly oversee campaigns to apprehend brigands.
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Sometime before the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, the Caesar's Legion has conquered a new tribe under the command of centurion Gaius Magnus, bringing the number to 87.
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At first he believed his dreams to be some kind of overspill from a full-sense drama that was leaking into the Centurion Station gaiafield.
The Dreaming Void
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Centurion, even in the damp, retains an open and friendly atmosphere that is undoubtedly linked to its lack of formal structure.
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The Romans also made a hobnailed shoe and boot that lasted longer for those centurions travelling to invade other lands.
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Michael Fassbender stars as Quintus Dias, Roman centurion and son of a legendary gladiator who leads a group of soldiers on a raid of a Pict camp to rescue a captured general (Dominic West).
Neil Marshall’s CENTURION to Stand Guard This Summer – Collider.com
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Each centurion was required to ensure that his century was a capable and effective fighting force.
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It indicates that there were two centurions that Caesar described with the names of T. Pulfio, and L. Varenus and that the show's creators must have borrowed those names to depict the characters on the show.
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The last thing that sticks in my craw is the voiceover of how the Centurions "were given their freedom" and let go on the Base Ship and the "2s,6s and 8s agreed to live" on new Earth ... yet there is no mention of the 1s, 4s and 5s.
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Sometime before the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, the Caesar's Legion has conquered a new tribe under the command of centurion Gaius Magnus, bringing the number to 87.
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The centurion was a commanding officer of a Roman army unit called a century, nominally a hundred foot soldiers.
Beginner’s Grace
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The wicket in Centurion didn't take much turn, and that helped us a lot.
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Next day, appropriate sermons in the churches, processions in the afternoon, in which wax figures of Christ and the Virgin Mary were carried by men got up in fancy dresses as soldiers and centurions, and so called penitents, walking covered with black shrouds and veils, with small round holes to look through, or in the yellow dress and extinguisher cap, both with flames and devils painted on them.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
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All they had to work with were their hands and their legionary's digging tools; but there were over ten thousand pairs of hands and more than sufficient tools, and their centurions taught them the shortcuts and knacks in building siegeworks.
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If the centurion is so civil as to take his word, he is so just and honest as to keep his word.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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The Centurions continued to illustrate flair and finesse in attack,
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Senior non-commissioned officers were called centurions, who varied greatly in rank.
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And would it matter as the Heavy raider is “flown” by Centurions so it would not be “alive” like the normal raiders and therefore not need the red interior so to speak.
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Jesus welcomed outsiders: a Samaritan leper, a Syro-Phoenician woman, a Roman centurion, the good Samaritan and others.
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The cohorts, divided into six centuries (100 men in each century) commanded by a centurion, became the main tactical unit of the army.
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This British thespian will be on screen this weekend playing a Scottish warrior in the brutal period action flick "Centurion.
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In the Centurion there were in all, of men and boyes, fourtie and eight, who together fought most valiantly, and so galled the enemie, that many a braue and lustie Spaniard lost his life in that place.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The centurion was a man of honour and he had no stomach for the work of this day--the obviously political disposal of a troublesome but innocent man.
Recognition
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Marius, girt round by a company of centurions, with the crimson tunic hoisted on a spear, and followed by the alalagmos of the
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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This British thespian will be on screen this weekend playing a Scottish warrior in the brutal period action flick "Centurion.
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And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship, Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
Herescope
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Wolfe himself, with the good ship Centurion standing off like a sentinel at a point where the Basin, the River Montmorenci, and the North Channel seem to meet.
The Seats of the Mighty, Complete
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The centurion was a magnificent fighter, but anyone could be taken by surprise.
Death in Winter
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Mr Edwards said the original stone was an altar erected by a Roman centurion as a dedication to the gods for saving his life.
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It was an ill-assorted gang he had joined: high-spirited youngbloods like Cornelius Cethegus, out for a fight; aging and dissolute noblemen like Marcus Laeca and Autronius Paetus, whose public careers had been frustrated by their private vices; mutinous ex-soldiers led by rabble-rousers like Gaius Manlius, who had been a centurion under Sulla.
CONSPIRATA
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Delight in the remarkably sophisticated ways of the Roman Centurion and Civilian who lived in Malton's fort and vicus.
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Everyone is afraid that there's going to be a test and they'll need to know that Pablo Picasso's father bore a strong resemblance to Edgar Degas, that Nicolas Poussin despised Caravaggio, that the third centurion to the left in the Rembrandt crucifixion scene was a dead ringer for Ignaas van der Hoeven, a baker who once stiffed the artist out of 50 guilder.
Three Tips for Surviving the Art Museum
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Down his throat the centurion poured what tasted like a pungent mixture of old wine mixed with some sort of foul-tasting drug.
The Shroud Codex
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Boasting savagely violent battle scenes and an adrenaline fueled chase through the breathtaking Scottish highlands, CENTURION is set during the war between Roman soldiers and Pict tribesmen during the 2nd century Roman conquest of Britain.
Neil Marshall’s CENTURION to Stand Guard This Summer – Collider.com
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David Goldfarb @ 296: The centurion in Life of Brian claims that, in the case of motion towards, "domus" takes the locative which he agrees is "domum".
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But that membership entitles cardholders to special benefits, one of which was admission to the unveiling of a new special-edition Maserati Quattroporte designed with the Centurion theme.
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Like Nero, his family had ties to the Legion, but he was not of noble blood, unlike Nero, and could not become a centurion.
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The Leigh Centurions captain put eager children through their paces at rugby.
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For the third visit running, the most notable aspect of an England Test match at Centurion Park was the filthy weather.
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The subplots evolve around the fates of several individual soldiers of the Macht and a few other side characters: the young conscripts Gasca and Rictus of Isca, centurion Jason of Ferai, Vorus – the renegade general of the Assurian Empire, and Tyrin, the lowborn Kufr concubine of the upstart prince.
Paul Kearney - The Ten Thousand (Book Review)
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Both centurions and their centuries rushed to the scene, but it was not what was expected.
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It might be because purists realized they were a small group of Roman centurions and the barbarians were at the gates.
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It was also common for chiliarchs and centurions to be dispatched seasonally to supervise bandit-suppression troops stationed in locations in and around the capital.
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30 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship, 31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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But an expression seasonably uttered determined the matter whilst still undecided; for when a meeting of the senate, a little after this, was being held in the Curia Hostilia regarding these questions, and some troops returning from relieving guard passed through the forum in their march, a centurion in the comitium cried out, "Standard-bearer, fix your standard! it is best for us to remain here.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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‘freshman’ for proselyte; ‘mooned’ for lunatic; ‘foreshewer’ for prophet; ‘hundreder’ for centurion; Jewel ‘foretalk’, where we now employ preface; Holland ‘sunstead’ where we use solstice; ‘leechcraft’ instead of medicine; and another, ‘wordcraft’ for logic; ‘starconner’
English Past and Present
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Leaving the theater, we see around the Colosseum street artists disguised as gladiators and centurions to entertain tourists…
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Delight in the remarkably sophisticated ways of the Roman Centurion and Civilian who lived in Malton's fort and vicus.
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The cohorts, divided into six centuries (100 men in each century) commanded by a centurion, became the main tactical unit of the army.
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The word “Centurion” was stitched above the breast pocket of his shirt; there were two holes in the fabric where his name badge had been removed.
FALSE MERMAID
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The escalade was to be attempted by a band of ten; five of the trumpeters and buglemen were selected and four centurions, the Ligurian was to be their guide.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
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But they are heavy, and as fragile as a Centurion tank.
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Cobblers became centurions, senators became skivvies, and so on.
Times, Sunday Times
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To them, the crack of the centurion's whip and the thud of the hammer on nails are distant, alien sounds - a disturbing echo of Holy Week long ago, of Gregorian plainsong, of ferias in Seville.
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He'd been a centurion in his previous position, at Caesar's Palace.
MR STARLIGHT
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In handling, the 210 was more of a Cadillac to the Bonanza's Corvette, but the Centurion was to evolve through turbocharging and pressurization over nearly a third of a century of production.
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The Legion's NCOs were 60 Centurions, long-serving professional soldiers who each commanded a century of 80 men.
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2 And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Clearly Firmus is a key individual, as he has the authority to allocate grain to a detachment of legionaries in the fort; yet does this mean that he is a senior centurion of one of the cohorts, or is he just a middle-man?
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He went the full length for Leigh's first try and Turley potted a field goal to give the dominant Centurions a flying start.
