Word Finder - hordes

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A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.

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A large number of people.

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We were beset by a horde of street vendors who thought we were tourists and would buy their cheap souvenirs.

They are not among the hordes enumerated by Rameses II.

These regulations also met the objections voiced by Australians and New Zealanders that the country won for Great Britain at such cost had been thrown open to hordes of Asiatics.

While the country was being drained of its best citizens, hordes of slaves were imported to fill the vacancies, especially into the southern provinces.'

The former of these subdued Khorasan, Rai and Isfahan, while the latter brought practically all Persia under his sway, conquered Bokhara, Samarkand and Otrar, capital of the Karakitai, and had even made himself master of Ghazni when his career was stopped by the hordes of the Mongol Jenghiz Khan.

Fresh risings of the defeated dynasties followed each new enterprise, and he had also to deal with the Mongol hordes whose territory marched with northerii Persia.

Bayezid now consolidated his Asiatic dominions by the capture of Kaisarieh, Sivas and Tokat from Tatar invaders, the relics of Jenghiz Khan's hordes.

It is a contracted form of khagan (khakan), a word equivalent to sovereign or emperor, used among the Mongol and Turki-nomad hordes.

After the final dispersal of the Danish invaders Alfred turned his attention to the increase of the navy, and ships were built according to the king's own designs, partly to repress the ravages of the Northumbrian and East Anglian Danes on the coasts of Wessex, partly to prevent the landing of fresh hordes.

The chief nation among these, called by the Chinese Yue-Chi, about 126 B.C. established themselves in Sogdiana and on the Oxus in five hordes.

Drained of men and resources it was no longer able to make head against the Cimmerian and Scythian hordes who now poured over western Asia.

The most remarkable monarch of this dynasty was Ala-ud-din, during whose reign Delhi was twice exposed to attack from invading hordes of Moguls.

It fell under the repeated attacks of the barbarian hordes who crossed over after having ravaged Byzantium, and furnished an encampment to the Persians under Chosroes, c. 616-626.

Routed in 1818 the Kaffirs rallied, and in the early part of 1819 poured into the colony in vast hordes.

The undisciplined hordes of the king of Ossory and the Danes of Wexford could not stand before the Anglo-Norman tacticsthe charge of the knights and the arrowflight of the archers, skilfully combined by the adventurous invaders.

The country it traverses in its extremely sinuous course is very level, similar in character to that of the Jurua, and is a fostered wilderness occupied by a few savage hordes.

When the Huns (Hiung-nu) occupied west and east Mongolia in 177-165 B.C., they drove before them the Yue-chi (Yutes, Yetes or Ghetes), who divided into two hordes, one of which invaded the valley of the Indus, while the other met the Sacae in East Turkestan and drove them over the Tian-shan into the valley of the Ili.

Soon Mongol hordes, the Kara-Kitais, entered East Turkestan (11th century), and then penetrated into West Turkestan.

In the second place the Tatar hordes had been well nigh exterminated.

But since Roman days the central Danube has never formed the boundary of a state; on the contrary it became the route followed from east to west by successive hordes of barbarians - the Huns, Avars, Slays, Magyars and Turks; while the Franks under Charlemagne, the Bavarians and the Crusaders all marched in the opposite direction towards the east.

Laconia was subsequently overrun, like so much of the Roman Empire, by barbarian hordes.

What they did was to rove about in hordes, plundering or levying blackmail.

The Cimmerian hordes returned, Gyges was slain in battle (652 B.C.), and Ardys his son and successor returned to his allegiance to Nineveh.

It is suggested as the origin of the legend, that the Greeks in early times, to whom riding was unfamiliar, regarded the horsemen of the northern hordes as one and the same with their horses; hence the idea of the Centaur as half-man, half-animal.

What's more, he enjoyed the camaraderie of the hordes of participants all with the same goal in mind.

Surely the British would now see that Germany was central Europe's last bulwark against the hordes of Asia?

The many enemies of Jerusalem " will become like fine dust, the ruthless hordes like blown chaff.

However, it transpires that hordes of young hooligans have been making his life a misery in recent years.

When about half-way, he was surrounded by the hordes of the Khakan, and the battle raged with terrible slaughter.

Tell that to the marauding hordes of English football supporters.

The armies of all the ' good guys ' have joined forces to hold the invading hordes from their borders.

Then we are escaping hordes of midges up An Teallach, on a day of playful breezes and luminous skies.

Hacker Web Pages Nothing attracts hordes of hackers like a hacker web page.

Help Sonic fight hordes of metal maniacs and do the loop with the Super Sonic Spin Attack.

At best, itâll be back to square one; at worst, you join the hordes who drop out of exercise through injury.

But her defenses were rock solid, the Great Wall of China against Mongol hordes.

In fact, they were plans to destroy it and unleash the imprisoned demonic hordes on Shannara itself.

They taught it science, philosophy, religion, and civilized the savage hordes of the earth.

These books are personal trainers for the hungry hordes of fanatic puzzlers.

Because the tourist hordes, bound for the Great Barrier Reef, generally don't.

There are salt licks where hordes of animals gather.

In 1046, and again in 1061, two dangerous pagan risings shook the very foundations of the infant church and state; the western provinces were in constant danger from the attacks of the acquisitive emperors, and from the south and southeast two separate hordes of fierce barbarians (the Petchenegs in 1067-1068, and the Kumanians in 1071-1072) burst over the land.

Assyria, therefore, was ill prepared to face the hordes of Scythians - or Manda, as they were called by the Babylonians - who now began to harass the frontiers.

From the little flea-like species, scarcely a tenth of an inch long, up to the great and rare but cosmopolitan Eurythenes gryllus, Lichtenstein, and the still larger Alicella gigantea, Chevreux, nearly half a foot long, captured by the prince of Monaco from a depth of 2936 fathoms, not one of these ubiquitous, uncountable hordes has ever been accused of assailing man.

But as no one ventured to transfer the royal household and the army, with its hordes of wild horsemen, to the Greek town of Seleucia, and thus disorganize its commerce, the Arsacids set up their abode in the great village of Ctesiphon, on the left bank of the Tigris, opposite to Seleucia, which accordingly retained its free Hellenic constitution (see CmsIPnoN and SELEUcIA).

Apart from hordes of ravenous immature fish, brown trout were very, very scarce.

Leaving your squad and trying to Wolfenstein your way through Hitler's hordes is a really good way to ensure your quick demise, so you'll want to stick with your men.

There was a time when such shooters, especially those that pitted a player-controlled spaceship against hordes of interstellar enemies, dominated both arcades and home consoles.

At the end, hordes of barbarians attack your civilization, so you'd better spend at least some time working on your defenses.

The Eyetoy has been met with limited success, to say the least, but hordes of gamers are literally jumping up and down in anticipation of the innovative gameplay that just might be had on Nintendo's next-generation home gaming system.

Many of these jobs involve capturing hordes of rabbits by finding vacuum vents to suck them into... well, wherever they lead.