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Sentence Examples
In the United States, the candidate would be flanked by a wall of myrmidons with imperfectly concealed shoulder holsters.
Sixteen metres below the raging battle, Hitler and his myrmidons were ensconced in a bunker that lacked the facilities to track enemy movements.
He has three directors, three deputies and a plethora of myrmidons.
Within two weeks, the Queen's chemical signals had dropped to a hardly detectable level in the outermost reaches of the nest, and the Trailhead myrmidons understood instinctively that they were in trouble.
The story builds to an attack by the upstart and his myrmidons that lays waste to a swath of streets in a heavily trafficked Manhattan business district.
Patroclus leads the Myrmidons into battle and arrives as the Trojans set fire to the first ships.
Examples from Classical Literature
When Little's leadless pistols met his eye, And Bow-street myrmidons stood laughing by.
The best hotel and all its culinary myrmidons, were set to work to prepare the feast.
He sends his myrmidons to come over the fence, and pass and repass.
A bad situation is steadily worsening as the ineffably Reverend Pat Robertson's myrmidons sneakily get themselves elected to school boards.
Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate?
Peggy ran in, having delivered the two-seater to the care of myrmidons.
He sends his myrmidons to come over the fence and pass and repass.
From the same source proceeded all the Hellenes, derivatively so called, and the Myrmidons.
Patroclus and Automedon, having one mind, to fight in the front of the Myrmidons.
Thus all night long did the Myrmidons gather round Achilles to mourn Patroclus.
They came to the tents and ships of the Myrmidons where they found Achilles sitting by his tent and his ships, and ill-pleased he was when he beheld them.
Myrmidons at your tents, ant-born, or only a mob on the gillies Hill?
He charged them straightly further and dismissed them, whereon they went their way sorrowfully by the seaside, till they came to the tents and ships of the Myrmidons.
The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my wood-yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black.
