30 examples of achilles' in sentences

One child beside Achilles' grave In secret slain, Polyxena the brave, Lies bleeding.

She rests apart, to watch Achilles' tomb.

Pyrrhus, Achilles' son, hath taken her. HECUBA.

Polyxena across Achilles' tomb Lies slain, a gift flung to the dreamless dead.

Achilles' son, So soon as I was taken, for his thrall Chose me.

I've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted!

For instance in his preface to his second instalment of Homer entitled Achilles' Shield (1598)

Depending upon where in the internal secretion chain the weak point, the Achilles' heel spot, will be found, the nature of the reaction will vary.

I've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubtedtime will doubt of Rome.

Whereat he lifted up his bedrid limbs, And would have grappled with Achilles' son, * *

[Footnote 3: The two first dragons typify the Aiakids, Aias and Achilles, who failed to enter Troy, the third typifies Achilles' son, Neoptolemos, who succeeded.]

There is a modest ambition, as Themistocles was roused up with the glory of Miltiades; Achilles' trophies moved Alexander, "Ambire semper stulta confidentia est, Ambire nunquam deses arrogantia est.

Every man in his humor is liable to be duped thereby, for his humor is the "Achilles' heel" of his character.

The cycle of the years, it flags not yet; In many a chariot many a steed shall sweat: And one, to manhood grown, my lays shall claim, Whose deeds shall rival great Achilles' fame, Who from stout Aias might have won the prize On Simois' plain, where Phrygian Ilus lies.

"Achilles' wrath.

'I see thee fall, and by Achilles' hand.'

""I see thee fall, and fall by Achilles' hand."

SEE Reback, Janet M. REINES, BERNARD J. Achilles' heel.

You certainly know my Achilles' heel, Mister Benson.

SEE Reback, Janet M. REINES, BERNARD J. Achilles' heel.

Mr. Thomas Inkle of London, aged twenty Years, embarked in the Downs, on the good Ship called the 'Achilles', bound for the West Indies, on the 16th of June 1647, in order to improve his Fortune by Trade and Merchandize.

The first lines of Pope's Iliad afford examples of many licences which an easy writer must decline: Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heav'nly Goddess sing; The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain.

Achilles' arms dazzle our present view, Kept by the Muse as radiant and as new 40 As from the forge of Vulcan first they came; Thousands of years are past, and they the same; Such care she takes to pay desert with fame!

Twas then, when the first sweets of sleep repair Our bodies spent with toil, our minds with care, (The gods' best gift), when, bathed in tears and blood, Before my face lamenting Hector stood, His aspect such when, soil'd with bloody dust, 260 Dragg'd by the cords which through his feet were thrust By his insulting foe; oh, how transform'd, How much unlike that Hector, who return'd Clad in Achilles' spoils!

The young Korak's troubles begin when he first falls in love; this, like Achilles' wrath, is "the direful spring of woes unnumbered."

30 examples of  achilles'  in sentences