Hordes

Examples

• 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.
• There we found numbers of huge milk-giving shrubs--that strange plant which serves in great part as food and drink for the wild hordes of green men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The Eastern hordes have bound me helpless thus. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

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