Sample Sentences for
Assyria
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    In 722 B.C. the Northern kingdom was conquered by the Assyrians and it lost all political and religious significance.†  (source)
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    I passed through vast bronze gates on which paper-thin Assyrian animals cavorted;†  (source)
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    "The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck" followed; also "The Assyrian Came Down," and other declamatory gems.†  (source)
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    I had to borrow these from an Assyrian tomb.†  (source)
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    My Great Uncle Algie got it for me in Assyria.†  (source)
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    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)
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    He drove with authority and grace, head back, jaw thrown forward: an Assyrian king.†  (source)
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    Assyria.†  (source)
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    The Assyrians used it in the seventh century B.C. to poison water supplies.†  (source)
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    They hated him because he was Assyrian.†  (source)
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    As before the work of Egypt and Assyria, as before a sea, you're nothing here.†  (source)
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    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)
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    Behind them was Kandar, a bandage-wrapped Assyrian mummy with powerful eagle-wings and eyes like rubies, who was carrying a small pig.†  (source)
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