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. 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

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

They mix in everywhere, riding on clouds, clinging to robes, perching on the shoulders of Apostles— everywhere thick in the flight and helping on that glorious anabasis.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Hubbard, Elbert

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