It is not usually a good idea to be a myrmidon to any cause because you could be led to ruin unless you have your wits about you. From LearnThat.org.
Fortunately, not all journalists are such myrmidon. From Wordnik.com. [Learning New Words #2 « Write Anything] Reference
"Suitai is returned, Great Lord," his shaven-headed myrmidon replied. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
He turned to his myrmidon: "Get a move on you, Herbert; it's a bit parky standing about here.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917] Reference
Police-blotter rapists in a very real sense perform a myrmidon function for all men in our society. From Wordnik.com. [Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – May – 16] Reference
I found the custom house officers, and their myrmidon porters, exactly as Smollet has described them; two of these. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic.] Reference
A line of green flashed and joined the blue flame, and the lance of blue and green tore through the myrmidon and into the pteridon. From Wordnik.com. [Alector's Choice]
His wife followed him, and did not hear the blandishments with which Thompson instructed his myrmidon to follow through the mud on foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
Inspector, supernaturally endowed with patience, who has long been looking on from the Guildhall-steps, says, to a myrmidon, ‘Lock ’em up!. From Wordnik.com. [The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices] Reference
The bludgeon of a ministerial myrmidon paralyzed his brilliant intellect, and he was not allowed to participate in the scenes of the Revolution which ensued. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
A myrmidon wife interdigitate with her noetic husband. From Wordnik.com. [Learning New Words #2 « Write Anything] Reference
The myrmidon fell heavily, and without a cry, and lay still. From Wordnik.com. [Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ] Reference
"Well," he said, looking up and seeing that his myrmidon still stood there. From Wordnik.com. [Orley Farm] Reference
And I'd like to 'eave bricks at that DILKE and his long-winded myrmidon OWEN. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2] Reference
Whenever he was feverish the myrmidon packed him, and in half an hour the fever was gone. From Wordnik.com. [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference
What if he should wake some morning and find himself in the grip of some Newgate myrmidon?. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
Was it possible that this dread myrmidon of the law was vaunting the prowess of the small rebel?. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
There will be a lot on display depending on how he gets treated by Hillary's most loyal myrmidon. From Wordnik.com. [A Word to the Wise - A Townhall.com user blog] Reference
It had been -- But how had it come here, into the possession of this base myrmidon of the French police?. From Wordnik.com. [The Rome Express] Reference
And who are those secret conspirators and their myrmidon partisans who have sworn to unify Italy or lay it in ruins?. From Wordnik.com. [Public School Education] Reference
I was at the Lamar House late in the afternoon, when Blackburne, the lawless myrmidon of the squire, brought in twenty or more. From Wordnik.com. [Fagots from the campfire,] Reference
As he recovered, his anxiety to be back among his prisoners increased daily, but neither Susan nor the myrmidon would hear of it. From Wordnik.com. [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference
And now Alfidius and his myrmidon bound their captive to a furca, a wooden yoke passing down the back of the neck and down each arm. From Wordnik.com. [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference
The other myrmidon, however, having dispatched his subordinate to headquarters with particulars of his destination, took up the chase. From Wordnik.com. [The New Tenant] Reference
His myrmidon remained behind and carried out his chief's orders with inflexible severity, unsoftened by blandishments, unshaken by threats. From Wordnik.com. [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference
A Police Inspector, supernaturally endowed with patience, who has long been looking on from the Guildhall-steps, says, to a myrmidon, 'Lock 'em up!. From Wordnik.com. [Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices] Reference
The moment the myrmidon dropped from the portico with news that the Princess was out in her chair unattended, he decided she was proceeding to the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference
Was it possible that, in their agitation, they had left the front door open, and that someone, some merciless myrmidon of the law, had crept in behind them?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lodger] Reference
One of these he guarded as if holding the crown jewels of the Great King; the second he despatched by a discreet myrmidon to the rooms of the Cyprian in Alopece. From Wordnik.com. [A Victor of Salamis] Reference
But before the myrmidon could go and come, concluding to dispense with forms, he anticipated the result of that mandate with another, -- to chain and imprison her. From Wordnik.com. [The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok] Reference
A great appetite soon came; he ate twice as much as he had before the new treatment, and would have eaten twice as much as he did, but the myrmidon would not let him. From Wordnik.com. [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference
You know I can’t pass up a good challenge – I am a myrmidon to all things dared or memed. From Wordnik.com. [Learning New Words #2 « Write Anything] Reference
The myrmidon was silenced. From Wordnik.com. [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference
So was the myrmidon called. From Wordnik.com. [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference
"No trouble, excellent myrmidon," he answered. From Wordnik.com. [If I Were King] Reference
Slow, or a myrmidon from Mr Slow's legal abode?. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Mackenzie] Reference
Or myrmidon of Fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Vol. IV] Reference
24. myrmidon. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
myrmidon, eidolon. From Wordnik.com. [mordicai: crown me king!] Reference
1. myrmidon • \MER-muh-dahn\. From Wordnik.com. [Learning New Words #2 « Write Anything] Reference
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