Assyria

in a sentence

At this time, the Assyrian king Sargon II had recently conquered Samana-northern Israel-forcing a migration of Hebrews southward into Jerusalem.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

In 722 B.C. the Northern kingdom was conquered by the Assyrians and it lost all political and religious significance.†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

Arwad had been a strategic military possession for an endless succession of sea powers: the Phoenicians, the Assyrians, the Achaemenid Persians, the Greeks under Alexander, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Mongols, the Turks, the French, and the British.†  (source) Dave Eggers, Zeitoun, 2009

My Great Uncle Algie got it for me in Assyria.†  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

They hated him because he was Assyrian.†  (source) Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

Besieged, plundered, captured and recaptured, Jerusalem had been ruled by Jebusites, Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and, of course, the Jews.†  (source) Daniel Silva, The Black Widow, 2016

Assyria.†  (source) Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures, 2009

I had to borrow these from an Assyrian tomb.†  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Fiend And The Forge, 2010

The Assyrians used it in the seventh century B.C. to poison water supplies.†  (source) Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart, 2008

The learned societies and great men of Assyria—where are they?†  (source) Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

He drove with authority and grace, head back, jaw thrown forward: an Assyrian king.†  (source) John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues, 1972

Breathing that sea breeze, so much more invigorating and balsamic as the land is approached, contemplating all the power of those preparations she was commissioned to destroy, all the power of that army which she was to combat alone—she, a woman with a few bags of gold—Milady compared herself mentally to Judith, the terrible Jewess, when she penetrated the camp of the Assyrians and beheld the enormous mass of chariots, horses, men, and arms, which a gesture of her hand was to dissipate like a cloud of smoke.†  (source) Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers, 1850

FIGURE 62: Chaos Monster and Sun God (carved alabaster, Assyria, 885-860 B.C.).†  (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949