myrmidon
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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 Dickens, Charles
Upon leaving the atrium, Ben-Hur gave a last look at the myrmidon as he lay in the Jewish vestments, and was satisfied.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis
What if he should wake some morning and find himself in the grip of some Newgate myrmidon?
From The Three Clerks by Trollope, Anthony
It sits on the top of its blade of grass, and when a myrmidon passes below, it throws a little skein of cobweb at its head.
From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold
The bludgeon of a ministerial myrmidon paralyzed his brilliant intellect, and he was not allowed to participate in the scenes of the Revolution which ensued.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
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