Pyrrhus

How To Use Pyrrhus In A Sentence

• Pyrrhus," said he, "the Romans are said to be good soldiers, and to rule over many warlike nations. Plutarch's Lives, Volume II
• Next to that outcome, Pyrrhus won a stupendous triumph. Russia
• Pyrrhus, whose youth carieth some correspondency with mine; and so constantly have I setled my love to him, as I am not well, but when The Decameron
• Among his other servants he had a young man called Pyrrhus, who was sprightly and well bred and comely of his person and adroit in all that he had a mind to do, and him he loved and trusted over all else. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
• Pyrrhus, who had diligently observed the whole cariage of this businesse, saide to himselfe. The Decameron
• Gentleman, gracefull of person, excellent in speech, and every way as active as no man could be more: his name Pyrrhus, highly affected of Nicostratus, and more intimately trusted then all the rest. The Decameron
• I strongly suspect that the introduction of the name of 'Pyrrhus' into The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels
• After taking Gytheum Nabis returned with his army equipped for rapid marching, and hurrying past Lacedaemon he seized a position known as Pyrrhus 'Camp, which he felt quite certain that the Achaeans were making for. The History of Rome, Vol. V
• Pyrrhus in the air of his face had something more of the terrors, than of the augustness of kingly power; he had not a regular set of upper teeth, but in the place of them one continued bone, with small lines marked on it, resembling the divisions of a row of teeth. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
• King Pyrrhus of Epirus was an ambitious ruler whose aim was to revive the empire of his second cousin, Alexander the Great.