myrmidon

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What if he should wake some morning and find himself in the grip of some Newgate myrmidon?

From The Three Clerks by Trollope, Anthony

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.

Mr Doy, the leading butcher of Bursley, and now chief executioner, regarded with anxiety the operation which had been entrusted to him, and occasionally gave instructions to a myrmidon.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

Duhaut's myrmidon, l'Archevêque, was absent, hunting, and Hiens was for killing him on his return; but the two priests and Joutel succeeded in dissuading him.

From France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 by Parkman, Francis

As he recovered, his anxiety to be back among his prisoners increased daily, but neither Susan nor the myrmidon would hear of it.

From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Reade, Charles