myrmidon

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

What if he should wake some morning and find himself in the grip of some Newgate myrmidon?

From The Three Clerks by Trollope, Anthony

As he recovered, his anxiety to be back among his prisoners increased daily, but neither Susan nor the myrmidon would hear of it.

From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Reade, Charles

One of these he guarded as if holding the crown jewels of the Great King; the second he despatched by a discreet myrmidon to the rooms of the Cyprian in Alopece.

From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns

His wife followed him, and did not hear the blandishments with which Thompson instructed his myrmidon to follow through the mud on foot.

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony

They put their heads together, and Green dashed down to the asylum with a myrmidon, while Mrs. Dodd went into the City to obtain leave of absence from Cross and Co.

From Hard Cash by Reade, Charles