Inca Empirein a sentence
- The Inca Empire was in the midst of a civil war when the Spaniards conquered them.
- Bellatrix Lestrange, convicted of the torture and permanent inca-pacitation of Frank and Alice Longbottom.† (source)
- Ditto the Inca.† (source)
- I would shoot the Inca Trail.† (source)
- He was also equipped with a compass, a telescope, and several strange maps that he had traced himself based on various theories of Leonardo da Vinci and on the polar knowledge of the Incas.† (source)
- They shook hands here and there, daintily, and dropped a flattering remark to this or that person, and Clyde knew how the Director felt, mixing with people of the rarest social levels, the anointed and predestined, aura'd like Inca kings, but also the talented and original and self-made and born beautiful and ego-driven and hard-bargaining, all bearing signs of astral radiance, and the ruthless and brutish as well.† (source)
- He thought of the places the settlers had left behind, imagining pictures of wild green mountains in coffee table books about the Incas.† (source)
- Aside from a German priest who had spent thirty years ranging across the area digging up the Inca past, no one else had bothered with those relics, since they were thought to be of little or no value.† (source)
- Seated on the hard wooden bench near the tracks, with her bundle in her lap and her eyes full of fright, Blanca waited hours for the train, praying that the count, on returning home and discovering the damage to his laboratory door, would not come looking for her and force her to return to the evil kingdom of the Incas.† (source)
- He traced down the sovereign remedies of the Incas and started a smart trade in pills.† (source)
- It had been woven of osier by the Incas more than a century before and visitors to the city were always led out to see it.† (source)
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- Toohey, speaking easily and casually, gave a brief sketch of all known civilizations and of their outstanding religious monuments—from the Incas to the Phoenicians to the Easter Islanders—including, whenever possible, the dates when these monuments were begun and the dates when they were completed, the number of workers employed in the construction and the approximate cost in modern American dollars.† (source)
- Sunk in the burial-urn of earth he saw the vanished cultures: the strange sourceless glory of the Incas, the fragments of lost epics upon a broken shard of Gnossic pottery, the buried tombs of the Memphian kings, and imperial dust, wound all about with gold and rotting linen, dead with their thousand bestial gods, their mute unwakened ushabtii, in their finished eternities.† (source)
- He was the direct, sole heir to these treasures wrested from the Incas and those peoples conquered by Hernando Cortez!† (source)
- The kingdom we now inhabit is the ancient country of the Incas, who quitted it very imprudently to conquer another part of the world, and were at length destroyed by the Spaniards.† (source)
- It is natural to imagine that after so many disasters Candide married, and living with the philosopher Pangloss, the philosopher Martin, the prudent Cacambo, and the old woman, having besides brought so many diamonds from the country of the ancient Incas, must have led a very happy life.† (source)
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