demons
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His ancestors, she recalled, had sailed out of Marseilles in gulafres and dromons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Constantine IV, the Emperor, was quick to see the possibilities of the innovation and equipped his dromons with projecting brass tubes for squirting the substance upon the enemy's ships.
From A History of Sea Power by Stevens, William Oliver
Ship after ship was rammed by the Christian dromons or set on fire by the terrible substance which every Arab regarded with superstitious dread.
From A History of Sea Power by Stevens, William Oliver
In the Horn lay a few antiquated dromons and a few others still on the stocks.
From A History of Sea Power by Stevens, William Oliver
Probably there were not more than 1500 of these vessels all told and they must have been small compared with the Christian dromons; nevertheless they presented an appalling danger at that moment.
From A History of Sea Power by Stevens, William Oliver
