anabasis
Example Sentences
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A comparable feat would have been for Mexican revolutionists, defeated in Yucatan, to move their capital to British Columbia�except that the Mexicans would have far better roads for their anabasis.
From Time Magazine Archive
T. Well, Xenophon's Anabasis; now what is the meaning of the word anabasis?
From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry
T. Very well; a noun substantive, now what is the verb that anabasis is derived from?
From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry
I begin to believe her story, and even to understand how she has carried through this amazing anabasis.
From True Tilda by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
The vast anabasis to Moscow had emanated from a people not conspicuously careful of public morality.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
