On their arrival the men of the ninth had their number made up with legionary soldiers. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The legionary is dressed in a galea, a metal helmet with cheek guards, and a cuirass, body armour comprising overlapping iron plates. From Wordnik.com. [Collector Coins Offer Enjoyment and Profit : Coin Collecting News] Reference
The legionary wiped his nose, then pinched it shut. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]
Imagine a legionary carrying his own weight in rock. From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
Or that I enjoyed the butchery of a captive legionary?. From Wordnik.com. [People of the Dark]
And how could he do that when he had not one experienced legionary?. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Deva was 20% bigger than the other legionary fortresses in Roman Britain e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Chester in the seventh century: surviving infrastructure] Reference
No. He had a good chance to make a very profitable deal on the former legionary. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
The king bent down to the legionary who lay in a sticky red pool of his own blood. From Wordnik.com. [Wings in the Night]
A legionary standard, cavalry pennants, and dragon-head banners jutted into the air. From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
As a legionary fortress, it would obviously have been provided with a defensive wall. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Whitehead of the storied legionary city Colchester, were it not for reasons of brevity. From Wordnik.com. [The Cimmerian on A Dance with Dragons] Reference
I knew it had been a legionary fortress and its stout walls had been repaired many times. From Wordnik.com. [Black Horses For The King]
Dacort smiled to himself as he stood over the sprawled out figure of the former legionary. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
Beside her was a Roman legionary standard, identical to those that lined the Sacred Way today. From Wordnik.com. [Crusader Gold]
Ursus clapped the little legionary on the shoulder and declaimed: "Victory velcomes the valiant!". From Wordnik.com. [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]
He completed the substitution of equestrians for senators as legionary commanders and as governors. From Wordnik.com. [2. Foreign Invasion and Internal Disarray] Reference
Better to have the baggage train in the middle of the legionary column than run the risk of losing it. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
I served Gaius Marius as a legionary in Numidia and I served him again in Gaul — but as a centurion!. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
He has the same problems and none of her expertise but some of the men he has have legionary experience. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams of Steel]
The two legionary guards saluted him as he passed and he made his way towards the tent of Severinus Albinus. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost King]
As the Goths fell back, Cato turned to the legionary and saw it was the boy who earlier had dropped his sword. From Wordnik.com. [Last Sword Of Power]
What must it have been like to be a Roman legionary, returning to this place from a victory in some far-off land?. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Cato drew his gladius and rushed at them; he was joined by a young legionary and together they closed the breach. From Wordnik.com. [Last Sword Of Power]
The northern skies outside my window in the grim legionary fortress of Eburacum are gray and blank, offering nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
America's legionary army, compared to those of Europe, is large, yet it is incapable any longer of achieving grand goals. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future] Reference
Which of us hasn't heard the Capuans complaining that their livelihood is dwindling because the legionary camps are empty?. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
He dissolved the existing praetorian cohorts, composed of recruits from Italy, and enrolled new ones from legionary veterans. From Wordnik.com. [f. The Third Century] Reference
England was an integral part of the empire, where, if the proconsul or legionary commander had not the hot sun and blue sky of. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
They were not truly Roman soldiers, merely auxiliaries hastily trained, but no Roman legionary could have bettered them on this day. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost King]
I knew there were towns which had developed from military forts, often with legionary veterans forming the main body of citizenship. From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
Almost uniquely, the woman, Marta, already wore legionary battle dress and had rank and some badges neither Maria nor Inez recognized. From Wordnik.com. [The Lensman's Children] Reference
He had no understanding of the legionary, Lucullus, and was not interested to understand any man so far beneath him on the social scale. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
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