myrmidons

• The very presence of those myrmidons was an insult; for it was a direct reflection on the fidelity of the colonists. —  Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry
• May I take this opportunity of assuring you that Douglas is not in the pay of Hitler or any of his myrmidons, a belief ardently nursed, I feel sure, by Sub-Inspector Jackson. —  Died in the Wool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 13: 1944
• He and his myrmidons were told they might go home, having first left their names and addresses. —  Enter A Murderer - Ngaio Marsh - Roderick Alleyn 02: 1935
• Not enough the multitude with which the zeal of the informers has crowded the prisons and which the Public Prosecutor and his myrmidons are wearing out their lives in haling before the Tribunal; punishment must likewise be provided for those who refuse to wait. —  Dieux ont soif. English
• At the time Corrientes had neither of these to deter him, and in the dead hour of a certain night, four hundred of his myrmidons--the noted quarteleros_--crossed the Parana, attacked the tea-plantation of Bonpland, and after making massacre of a half-score of his Guarani peons_, carried himself a prisoner to the capital of Paraguay The Argentine Government, weak with its own intestine strife, submitted to the insult almost unprotestingly. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco

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