myrmidon

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A great appetite soon came; he ate twice as much as he had before the new treatment, and would have eaten twice as much as he did, but the myrmidon would not let him.

From It Is Never Too Late to Mend 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

The myrmidon fell heavily, and without a cry, and lay still.

From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis

Arrived at the dock-gates, he was met and guided aright, by a brassarded myrmidon of the Embarkation Staff Officer, to where p. 52His Majesty’s Transport Elymas lay in her basin beside a vast shed-covered wharf.

From Cupid in Africa by Wren, P. C.

His myrmidon on this occasion was a little, red-nosed butler, who waddled about the house after his master, while the latter bounced from room to room like a cracker.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur