Example Sentences

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

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

If he is surrounded by mountainous circumstances, an Achillean shore, whose peaks overshadow and are reflected in his bosom, they suggest a corresponding depth in him.

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

He pits himself against Nature, he forges for himself Achillean armour, he grasps the shield, he shakes the spear, and rushes joyfully to the encounter.

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin

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

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