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Definition of Hordes
1. horde [v] - See also: horde
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hordes
Literary usage of Hordes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1831)
"WE have been much pleased with this little volume, which, in a very clear and
unpretending style, increases our acquaintance with the hordes that inhabit ..."
2. The Primitive Family in Its Origin and Development by Carl Nicolai Starcke (1889)
"They wander about within this territory, in order to hunt game or collect roots,
sometimes in detached families, sometimes in large hordes. ..."
3. Southern History of the War: The First Year of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1864)
"The Yankee Trade in Counterfeit Confederate Notes.—Pope's “Chasing the Rehel hordes.
... hordes ..."
4. Lectures on the Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"Accordingly we find the wild hordes breaking out from the Upland,—falling upon
the countries in question, and laying them waste, or settling down in them, ..."
5. Works by Washington Irving (1895)
"... the Far West—Great American Desert —Black Hills—Rocky Mountains—Wandering and
Predatory hordes—Speculations on What may be the Future Population—Rose, ..."
6. Russia by Alfred Rambaud, Edgar Saltus (1898)
"Greek Colonies and the Scythia of Herodotus—The Russian Slavs of Nest«r —Lithuanian,
Finnish. and Turkish hordes in the ninth century—Division of the ..."
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