Alexander
[,ælɪg'zændɚ]
Definition
(noun.) king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC).
(noun.) European herb somewhat resembling celery widely naturalized in Britain coastal regions and often cultivated as a potherb.
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Examples
- This was Brother Alexander--dead two hundred and eighty years. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Napoleon, thwarted of a Russian princess, snubbed indeed by Alexander, turned to Austria, and married the arch-duchess Marie Louise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Hercules, the only other son of Alexander, was murdered also. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- While Alexander was overrunning Western Asia, China, under the last priest-emperors of the Chow Dynasty, was sinking into a state of great disorder. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Alexander Bain of Edinburgh in 1845-46 originated the modern automatic chemical telegraph. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- If Alexander the Great had lived, he might have come westward and driven these two powers into such a fusion of interests. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The lives of both Philip and his son were pervaded by the personality of a restless and evil woman, Olympias, the mother of Alexander. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was still young, it is true, but well before Philip was one and thirty he had been thinking of the education of Alexander. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This Theban business certainly troubled the mind of Alexander. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the Tsar Alexander I, who was never direct, this direct new imperialism met the old. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Next day Alexander departed with his mother--and Philip did nothing to restrain them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And now begins a new phase in the story of Alexander. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After a bout of hard drinking in Babylon a sudden fever came upon Alexander (323 B.C.), and he sickened and died. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No Sargon, no Thothmes, no Nebuchadnezzar, no Cyrus nor Alexander nor Chandragupta, was its fountain head. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But before we deal with the closing chapter of the story of Alexander, let us say a word or so about these northern regions into which he wandered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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