Marshals
['mɑrʃəl]
Examples
- Bonaparte's marshals are great men, who act under the guidance of an omnipotent master-spirit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The acclamations of thousands applauded the unanimous award of the Prince and marshals, announcing that day's honours to the Disinherited Knight. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The marshals then withdrew from the lists, and William de Wyvil, with a voice of thunder, pronounced the signal words--Laissez aller! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Northern marshals became slave-catchers, and Northern courts had to contribute to the support and protection of the institution. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I believe Wellington will flog Bonaparte's marshals into the sea the day it pleases him to lift his arm. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- More and angrier words would have been exchanged, but the marshals, crossing their lances betwixt them, compelled them to separate. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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