322 examples of crete in sentences

Metellus completes the conquest of Crete for the Romans.

Then he feigned how Ulysses, sailing for Troy, was forced by stress of weather to put his fleet in at a port of Crete, where for twelve days he was his guest, and entertained by him with all befitting guest-rites.

If Antony committed his many wrongs so openly and shamelessly as you say, and plundered the whole of Crete on the pretext that in accord with Caesar's letters it had been left free after the governorship of Brutus, though the latter was later given charge of it by us, how could you have kept silent and how could any one else have borne it?

Moreover, as a result of the war, Greece would get Crete, the Aegean islands, and a good slice of the mainland.

By nine o'clock the Bulgarian garrison of Salonica, deprived of its arms, was safely stowed in the holds of Greek ships bound for Crete.

It is supposed that they had settled in Canaan about the time of Abraham, and were originally a pastoral people in the neighborhood of Gesar, or emigrants from Crete.

There was fighting in Crete, and so off he went.

But they did mention at the Congress, as a practical people, and feeling that they had no chance of obtaining at that moment all they desiredthat they were willing to accept as an instalment the two large provinces of Epirus and Thessaly, and the island of Crete.

For he is not gone to his own province of Crete, he has flown to Macedonia, which belonged to another, he has accounted everything his own which you have wished to be yours, he has enlisted new legions, he has received old ones, he has gained over to his own standard the cavalry of Dolabella, and even before that man was polluted with such enormous parricide, he, of his own head, pronounced him his enemy.

But while he strove afar, for Crete, his heritage, To thee, all lonely, came an all too beauteous guest.

PHORKYAS That voyage unto me, a free-born dame of Crete, Hath also capture brought, and weary servitude.

CONSULAR LIFE IN CRETE XXI.

ADOWAH AND ITS CONSEQUENCES CHAPTER XX CONSULAR LIFE IN CRETE Cholera was raging all over the Levant, and there was no direct communication with any Turkish port without passing through quarantine.

Arrived at Athens I found that no regular communication with any Turkish port was possible, and that the steamers to Crete had been withdrawn, though there had not been, either at that or at any previous time, a case of cholera in Crete; but such was the panic prevailing in Greece that absolute non-intercourse with the island and the Turkish empire had been insisted on by the population.

Arrived at Athens I found that no regular communication with any Turkish port was possible, and that the steamers to Crete had been withdrawn, though there had not been, either at that or at any previous time, a case of cholera in Crete; but such was the panic prevailing in Greece that absolute non-intercourse with the island and the Turkish empire had been insisted on by the population.

But no boat would go to Crete, because the quarantine on the return was not merely rigorous but merciless, and exaggerate to an incredible severity.

As all the modern sanctuaries in that part of the world are founded on the ruins of ancient shrines, I have no doubt that our hospitable shelter of that night was on the site of some temple to one of the great gods of Crete.

What remained of the advanced civilization of the English garrison period gave the island a distinct advantage over all the other Greek isles, and even over Crete with its superior natural advantages.

Canandaigua, U.S. corvette, at Crete Candanos, collision between Mussulmans and Christians at serious fight at relief of Cass, Major Castellani, Sig.

Hobart Pasha, English admiral at Crete.

Ismael Pasha, Stillman's relations with, during his consulate at Crete; character of his rule; action during the insurrection; his dismissal.

Kestrel, the yacht, Stillman makes use of, about Crete; hired for the voyage "on the track of Ulysses.

See Stillman, Eliza Ward Maxson Maxson, John, ancestor of W.J. Stillman Maxson, William B., uncle of W.J. Stillman Mayor, Edmond, Crispi's secretary Mazzini, Giuseppe Medun Mehmet Ali, governor-general of Crete Mehmet Pasha Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernst Melos.

Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co. (PCW); 19Jul65; R365007. DAHL, CRETE M. Restaurant management.

Crete M. Dahl (W); 21Sep65; R368815.

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