Horde

Examples

• They are a smaller horde than the Tharks but much more ferocious. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Their chief Khan was the Khan of the Golden Horde. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Some patriarchs wore awful turbans, but the grand mass of the infidel horde wore the fiery red skull-cap they call a fez. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The green horde broke to surround the temple. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• As the sun rose on the second day of our flight it disclosed the pursuing horde not a half-mile in our rear. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The fighting strength and efficiency of this horde of ferocious green monsters was equivalent to ten times their number of red men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• He was a mighty fighter, but a multitude of green warriors of another horde than his overwhelmed him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The party had landed and was standing on the sward as the awful horde came in sight. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• On the contrary, we find to-day a handful of trained soldiers equipped with modern firearms putting to flight a horde of ignorant savages. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He was very much occupied perfecting new commercial schemes, protecting his patents from a horde of pirates, and planning to introduce his invention into Europe. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The dynasty founded by Timur in Persia was extinguished by another Turkoman horde fifty years later. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Tars Tarkas was approaching me rapidly, and still more rapidly came the awful horde at his heels. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• And now as my eyes fell upon him, I saw that he was no Thark, for his ornaments and metal were not of that horde. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Finally there were but three of us left, a great green warrior of some far northern horde, Kantos Kan, and myself. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The horde evidently guessed that we had no hearts to fight each other and so they howled in rage as neither of us placed a fatal thrust. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• They had been searching among the northern hordes, and only within the past few days had they extended their quest to the south. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The retreating hordes being between friends and pursuers caused the enemy to fire high to avoid killing their own men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In its present condition it held the entire twenty thousand Warhoons of the assembled hordes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Then came the hordes of northern barbarians pouring in waves over the southern countries and burying from sight their arts and civilisation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• That you will be thrown to the wild calots [dogs] in the great arena as soon as the hordes have assembled for the yearly games. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Practically all were Zodangans, and it was I to whom Zodanga owed her defeat at the hands of the green hordes and her subsequent vassalage to Helium. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The hordes of Thark number some thirty thousand souls, and are divided into twenty-five communities. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I was immediately taken before the leader, who proved to be the jeddak of the hordes of Warhoon. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Behind us we left the stricken city in the fierce and brutal clutches of some forty thousand green warriors of the lesser hordes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• She escaped from the hordes of Thark with a strange creature of another world, only to fall into the hands of the Warhoons. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• We never saw a human being on the whole route, much less lawless hordes of Bedouins. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I turned to search for an opening through the contending hordes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The fellows who had been detailed to accompany me were of one of the smaller hordes, and therefore did not know me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Hordes of the doughtiest fighting-men of the First Born poured from the audience to check our progress. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Would you send us out among these desperate hordes, with no salvation in our utmost need but this old turret? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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