Pyrrhus's

Few readers squirm upon reading Homer's description of Pyrrhus's butchery of the old man; it is accepted that these are the larger-than-life actions of larger-than-life characters.

Simon Maxwell Apter: Jack Tatum, "The Assassin," Is Dead. What Is the Future of Football? Simon Maxwell Apter 2010

Few readers squirm upon reading Homer's description of Pyrrhus's butchery of the old man; it is accepted that these are the larger-than-life actions of larger-than-life characters.

Simon Maxwell Apter: Jack Tatum, "The Assassin," Is Dead. What Is the Future of Football? 2010

Few readers squirm upon reading Homer's description of Pyrrhus's butchery of the old man; it is accepted that these are the larger-than-life actions of larger-than-life characters.

Simon Maxwell Apter: Jack Tatum, "The Assassin," Is Dead. What Is the Future of Football? Simon Maxwell Apter 2010

Few readers squirm upon reading Homer's description of Pyrrhus's butchery of the old man; it is accepted that these are the larger-than-life actions of larger-than-life characters.

Simon Maxwell Apter: Jack Tatum, "The Assassin," Is Dead. What Is the Future of Football? 2010

The Bruttii, Lucani, and Samnites joined Pyrrhus, but the Roman senate, rallied by the blind ex-censor Ap. Claudius, rejected the peace offer of Cineas, Pyrrhus's ambassador.

f. The Conquest of Italy 2001

Upon Pyrrhus's threatening afterwards to leave her, the knight shook his head, and muttered to himself, 'Ay, do if you can.'

The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

In point of fact, I have seen Pyrrhus's portrait, and the two -- to borrow a musical phrase -- are about as much like one another as bass and treble; and yet he was convinced he was the image of Alexander.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

Are Pyrrhus's 'total gules' any worse than Duncan's 'silver skin laced with his golden blood,' or so bad as the chamberlains 'daggers

Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893

This deliberate act of the oyster may not stand comparison with the stone of Pyrrhus's ring, which had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it produced by the spontaneous handiwork of Nature without any help from art.

Tropic Days 1887

On the threshold stood Pyrrhus's grey-haired wife,

Cleopatra — Volume 07 Georg Ebers 1867