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

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

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

T. Very well; a noun substantive, now what is the verb that anabasis is derived from?

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry

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