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... escaping , but looked upon Thermopyla as their graves ; and when Leonidas , exhorting them to take some nourishment , said that they should all sup together with Pluto , they set up , with one accord , a shout of joy , as if they had ...
... escaping , but looked upon Thermopyla as their graves ; and when Leonidas , exhorting them to take some nourishment , said that they should all sup together with Pluto , they set up , with one accord , a shout of joy , as if they had ...
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... escaping , but looked upon Thermopyla as their graves ; and when Leonidas , exhorting them to take some nourishment , said that they should all sup together with Pluto , they set up , with one accord , a shout of joy , as if they had ...
... escaping , but looked upon Thermopyla as their graves ; and when Leonidas , exhorting them to take some nourishment , said that they should all sup together with Pluto , they set up , with one accord , a shout of joy , as if they had ...
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... escaped to Sparta , where he was treat- ed as a traitor and coward to his country ! Some time after , a magnificent monument was erected at Thermopylæ , in honour of those brave de- fenders of Greece . It had two inscriptions . The one ...
... escaped to Sparta , where he was treat- ed as a traitor and coward to his country ! Some time after , a magnificent monument was erected at Thermopylæ , in honour of those brave de- fenders of Greece . It had two inscriptions . The one ...
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... five children , who hid themselves in a vault , escaped , to give the Romans an account of the dreadful tragedy by which they had become masters of the place . ROMAN CAPTIVES . Pomponius , a knight of Rome , HEROISM . 45.
... five children , who hid themselves in a vault , escaped , to give the Romans an account of the dreadful tragedy by which they had become masters of the place . ROMAN CAPTIVES . Pomponius , a knight of Rome , HEROISM . 45.
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... escapes at the battle of the Boyne , not only from the enemy , but from his own troops . One of the Innis- killen men , mistaking the king for an officer of the enemy , levelled his piece at him . His majesty cried out , " What ! don't ...
... escapes at the battle of the Boyne , not only from the enemy , but from his own troops . One of the Innis- killen men , mistaking the king for an officer of the enemy , levelled his piece at him . His majesty cried out , " What ! don't ...
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