Carthage
['kɑ:θidʒ]
Definition
(noun.) an ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis; founded by Phoenicians; destroyed and rebuilt by Romans; razed by Arabs in 697.
Typist: Nathaniel--From WordNet
Examples
- Some miles from New Carthage the levee to Bayou Vidal was broken in several places, overflowing the roads for the distance of two miles. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- After the fall of Carthage the Roman imagination went wild with the hitherto unknown possibilities of finance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To Ph?nicians after the falls of Tyre and Carthage, conversion to Judaism must have been particularly easy and attractive. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For Carthage could not afford to have a strong power established so close to her as Sicily. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Carthage submitted without any further struggle. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The constitution of Carthage[236] need not detain us long. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She now demanded that Carthage should be abandoned, and the population remove to a spot at least ten miles from the sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Sullivan is appointed to the command of all the forces detailed for the protection of the line from here to New Carthage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A strapper--a real strapper, Jane: big, brown, and buxom; with hair just such as the ladies of Carthage must have had. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He clamoured for an attack upon Carthage itself. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In order to defend Carthage, it became necessary to recal the standing army of Annibal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- For twenty-two years there was peace between Rome and Carthage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is recorded that when Pyrrhus left Sicily, he said he left it to be the battleground of Rome and Carthage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They pursued schemes in which the welfare of Carthage was no doubt subordinated to the advantage of their own group. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Atlantic was waking up again after a vast period of neglect that dated from the Roman murder of Carthage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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