myrmidon
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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
I feel like what Updike calls a "myrmidon of unhesitating amplitude."
From Of All Things by Benchley, Robert C.
But Green and a myrmidon broke in upon their conversation.
From Hard Cash by Reade, Charles
Now, she has actually put one of Dovey's spies on to that excellent husband of hers; and the myrmidon has been shadowing him about for a fortnight with a pocket camera.
From The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems by Dudeney, Henry Ernest
Mr Doy, the leading butcher of Bursley, and now chief executioner, regarded with anxiety the operation which had been entrusted to him, and occasionally gave instructions to a myrmidon.
From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold
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