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Definition of Trophies
1. trophy [v] - See also: trophy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trophies
Literary usage of Trophies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Friend of Peace by Noah Worcester, Massachusetts Peace Society (1827)
"O if all the nations of Christendom could be persuaded to follow this example,—if
all the trophies of victory in the world should be heaped together in one ..."
2. The Map of Europe by Treaty: Showing the Various Political and Territorial by Sir Edward Hertslet (1875)
"In consequence, it is agreed: Equal Division of trophies. 1st. That Flags, Cannon,
and other Articles which may bo considered as trophies, captured by corps ..."
3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"When the battle was not decisive, or each party considered it had some claims to
the victory, both erected trophies (Thucyd. i. 54, 105; ii. 92). ..."
4. Roman Antiquities: Or an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans ...by Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte by Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte (1842)
"Thus Caesar left standing the trophies which Pompey, from a criminal vanity ...
Dru- sus erected trophies near the Elbe, for his victories over the Germans. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and edited by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"But some Hellenistic (third-second centuries BC) trophies appear to have ...
Now, also, came in the custom of introducing trophies of arms and armour in ..."
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