cimmerian
Example Sentences
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John Milius's 1982 fantasy epic Conan the Barbarian cast the former Mr Olympia as Robert E Howard's unstoppable Cimmerian warrior.
From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013
Schwarzenegger is almost as much of a self-made man as the great Cimmerian himself.
From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013
He is stoic about the deaths of friends and relatives and accepts as "part of the game" the high possibility that he may be crushed, burned, suffocated or drowned in his own Cimmerian tomb.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before he even had time to yell, he dropped like a rock into the Cimmerian bowels of the glacier.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Drained of men and resources it was no longer able to make head against the Cimmerian and Scythian hordes who now poured over western Asia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
