spartan

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• The original Ulysses may have been Ithacan, but this one is more of a Spartan in temperament. Big Questions and Little Trinkets
• I won't use the word spartan, but there's not too much ceremony. Electoral College Meets to Begin Final Steps
• A flanking attack on Antigonus' troops from Spartan light infantry stationed in the Oenus valley was thwarted by an aggressive cavalry attack led by the Achaean general Philopoemen.
• With Spartan fortitude he had to squeeze his chilblained feet into wet socks and soggy boots frozen solid.
• Spartans accused Athenians of effeminateness
• The Spartan/dryad mix for your current WIP looks spectacular too. Guest Author: Maree Anderson - Even Demons Get The Blues
• The Pro Football Hall of Fame member, now 73 years old, recalls the spartan Marion County coal camp of his youth, where his teachers Mrs. Hornyak and Mr. Wolfe made lasting impressions. 59 Top Stories, Sports and Weather
• The dormitory accommodation is spartan. Times, Sunday Times
• And still she would not be ill to fall in with Louis's preconceived notions; living an absolutely normal, rather tough life, hardened by her father's Spartanism, she found that a natural process made very little difference to her. Captivity
• The discipline of the school was hard, not with the healthy and natural hardships of life in the open air, but with an artificial Spartanism, for it was the time when the Germans, who had suddenly awoke to feelings of patriotism and a love of war to which they had long been strangers, under the influence of a few writers, were throwing all their energies into the cultivation of physical endurance. Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire