myrmidon

Example Sentences

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I feel like what Updike calls a "myrmidon of unhesitating amplitude."

From Of All Things by Benchley, Robert C.

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

So he passed on, and with his myrmidon reached Galway, without incurring any impediment from Mr. Lax.

From The Landleaguers by Trollope, Anthony

And he loathed the notion of his proud, strong daughter being affianced to a man who, however excellent intrinsically, was the myrmidon of that sublime showman, Mr. Asprey Chown.

From Mr. Prohack by Bennett, Arnold

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