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

Perish by the sword; the Czechoslovakian anabasis and our supporting campaigns in North Russia and Siberia, 1918-1920. © 4Dec39; A135711.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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

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