How To Use Myrmidon In A Sentence
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Here again his disappointment and chagrin were renewed: his uncle had been carried off to Amiens the morning of his arrival, and the house rendered inaccessible, by the usual affixture of seals, and an attendant pair of myrmidons to guard them from infraction.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
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Words are slaves, noetic myrmidons laboring to interdigitate bolides of inspiration with cosmeticized complacence.
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And now Alfidius and his myrmidon bound their captive to a furca, a wooden yoke passing down the back of the neck and down each arm.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
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He is one of those writers who finds the exact word for absolutely everything, which gives his prose an oddly poetic effect, full of terms like ‘triforium’ and ‘chasuble’, ‘pontificalia’ and ‘myrmidon’.
On Silence « Tales from the Reading Room
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Words are slaves, noetic myrmidons laboring to interdigitate bolides of inspiration with cosmeticized complacence.
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He has three directors, three deputies and a plethora of myrmidons.
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Anthe and the city of the Myrmidons, and famous Iolcus, and Arne, and Helice: and much people were gathered doing honour to Ceyx, the friend of the blessed gods.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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The general prepared to say something to them but halted, seeing the two myrmidons' faces.
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What the submarshal had in mind for Third Battalion " even if a full Myrmidon company would be handling any direct attacks " was likely to create more than a few casualties, especially if the rebel alectors had many of the firelance weapons.
Cadmian's Choice
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_azymite_ Emperor to exhaust his vanity that in the last hour he and his Latin myrmidons may not deny her the merit of the salvation.
The Prince of India — Volume 02
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The khansamah would appear to be the only functionary in residence until the hour of departure draws near, when a whole party of underlings -- chowkidars, bheesties, and sweepers -- appear from nowhere in particular; and the lordly traveller, having presented them with about twopence apiece, rolls off along the dusty white road, leaving the khansamah and his myrmidons salaaming on the verandah.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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He turned to his myrmidon: "Get a move on you, Herbert; it's a bit parky standing about here.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917
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Perhaps he should ask the myrmidon outside his door nicely if he could go one more time to the Great Library.
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Yes, my countrymen, a dawn begins to open upon us; the crepusculous rays of returning republicanism are fast extending over the darkness of our political horizon, and before their brightness, those myrmidons shall slink away to the abode of the demons who have generated them, in the hollow caves of darkness.
Diary in America, Series Two
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The myrmidons of Inspector Bucket, foot and horse, supplement those natatory representatives.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
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Yesterday's thoughts on American gun culture reminded me of something that happened when this middle England muser was a backstage myrmidon at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
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Sixteen metres below the raging battle, Hitler and his myrmidons were ensconced in a bunker that lacked the facilities to track enemy movements.
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They enforced the necessity of uniform assentation, in order to lull the Mirabeau party, who were canvassing for a majority to set up D'ORLEANS, to whose interest Mirabeau and his myrmidons were then devoted.
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 6
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Words are slaves, noetic myrmidons laboring to interdigitate bolides of inspiration with cosmeticized complacence.
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