Araxes

How To Use Araxes In A Sentence

• The River Araxes is noisy, rapid, vehement, and, with the melting of the snows, irresistible: the strongest and most massy bridges are swept away by the current; and its indignation is attested by the ruins of many arches near the old town of Zulfa. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Khabur -- the Araxes of Xenophon -- flows from the Kurdistan mountains southwards, and runs into the Euphrates.] [Footnote 115: The Gozan river cannot be, as tacitly assumed by Asher, the Kizil Uzun (also known as the Araxes). The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela
• Bouguereau, who won the contest himself with "Zenobia Discovered by Shepherds on the Banks of the Araxes" below in 1850. En Loge Competition
• I am hunting down a man called Araxes," answered the Doctor. Ziska
• Those heard it who dwelt in the Colchian land very far from Titanian Aea, near the outfall of Lycus, the river which parts from loud-roaring Araxes and blends his sacred stream with The Argonautica
• This tree is also a host to Charaxes butterflies, one of which is the magnificent blue-spotted Emperor butterfly.
• You will embrace the same regimen, although you should be passionately fond of wine; and even although, on the banks of the Phasis and Araxes, it should often be necessary for you. A Philosophical Dictionary
• Alexander had already sent Philotas ahead to bridge the Araxes River on the way to the city. Alexander the Great
• Despite their dandy looks, the charaxes are the gladiators of the butterfly world, with serrated forewings that they use to bully other butterflies off a deliciously rotten piece of fruit or fresh carnivore dung.