myrmidon
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"Why, Mr. Vinson, what's happened to the myrmidon?"
From The Crime Doctor by Ernest William Hornung
His myrmidon on this occasion was a little, red-nosed butler, who waddled about the house after his master, while the latter bounced from room to room like a cracker.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
A Police Inspector, supernaturally endowed with patience, who has long been looking on from the Guildhall-steps, says, to a myrmidon, ‘Lock ’em up!
From Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens
Was it possible that, in their agitation, they had left the front door open, and that someone, some merciless myrmidon of the law, had crept in behind them?
From The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes
The myrmidon fell heavily, and without a cry, and lay still.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Lewis Wallace
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