Example Sentences

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Like a woman from Trianon's market, or the Achillean Alps.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

A photograph was produced of the earlier, more Achillean Kitchener, by way of settling that point.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund

Why not cast him in Achillean brass, the rival of the great hero of gunpowder and Waterloo, and make him breathe gas like the Dragon of Wantley, to illuminate the triumphal arch.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829 by Various

A copy of Blair's speech had been shown him at the station, and I was the sole witness of his Achillean wrath.

From The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher)

As for the Achillean sort of prowess, we do not demand it of a cat, but we are proud of it when it exists.

From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Lynd, Robert