Cyrus

Examples

• Into such a setting Cyrus Hall McCormick was born in 1809, the same year that saw the birth of Lincoln. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Everything seemed dreary: the portents before the birth of Cyrus--Jewish antiquities--oh dear! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• 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.
• Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But one monarch in the world was alive to the threat of the new power that lay in the hands of Cyrus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In that year Cyrus was ruling over an empire that reached from the boundaries of Lydia to Persia and perhaps to India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Cyrus followed him up, and he gave battle outside his capital town of Sardis. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Many men had tried to lighten the farmer’s labor in cutting grain, and Cyrus McCormick’s father had long had the ambition to invent a reaper. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Hearing this, Cyrus bade the interpreters ask Cr?sus who was this person on whom he called; and they came near and asked. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Cr?and Cyrus fought an indecisive battle at Pteria, from which Cr?retreated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The soldiers of Cyrus entered Babylon without fighting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Cyrus pretended a right to the throne above his elder brother, because he was born after his father's accession. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Cyrus now took up the work that his father reluctantly abandoned. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• These three ideas, the divider, the reciprocating blade, and the fingers, were all fundamental devices of the machine Cyrus McCormick was building. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Cyrus surrendered his farm and what other property he had to his creditors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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