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Definition of Mercenaries
1. mercenary [n] - See also: mercenary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mercenaries
Literary usage of Mercenaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1871)
"The Scipios, having long been left without a supply rin in of new troops from
home, had been obliged to enrol a great number of Spanish mercenaries. ..."
2. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1894)
"Dionysios therefore, having got rid of one body of mercenaries, presently hired
another. ... The mercenaries surround the house of Dionysios, ..."
3. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"How the war against the mercenaries was diversely managed by Hanno and ...
The bloody counsels of the mercenaries, and their final destruction. ..."
4. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1871)
"The more part were mercenaries hired from France and Britanny; ... But among
those mercenaries a brother of the King of the French himself, Hugh, ..."
5. English Society in the Eleventh Century: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Sir Paul Vinogradoff (1908)
"... very different lines: it may be the people in arms, or be recruited from a
class of professional warriors, or consist of bands of trained mercenaries. ..."
6. The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"the mercenaries wish to hold out. They are overpowered. ... The mercenaries
therefore cried out loudly against the submission to which, without taking them ..."
7. The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1845)
"Mentor, who was then in Sidon with the Grecian mercenaries, being terrified with
the approach of so great an army, sent privately to Ochus to make his peace ..."
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