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
During the French anabasis to Moscow he entered our service, made himself a prodigious favorite with the whole imperial family, and even now is only in his twenty-second year.
From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English by Hawthorne, Julian
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
