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Attila
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  • Attila is also known as Attila the Hun or the Scourge of God.
  • The fearless exemplary death of Attila the Hun.†   (source)
  • When she was still active, they called her Attila the Huness.†   (source)
  • Attila did not look through the opening in his tent and gesture at some lame dog standing at the edge of the fire waiting to be thrown a scrap of meat.†   (source)
  • , fat legs filling the ridiculous pinstripe funeral-parlor trousers; the other called Ottla, Attila to Will, huge, solemn man with a red moustache, slightly luminous, like a child's hair on a summer day, his spectacles low and loose on his nose, and behind them, glazed gray eyes like a lunatic's.†   (source)
  • One of those thighs that made the bird seem to ride like an Attila's horseman through the air.†   (source)
  • In my brain were stored a thousand pictures: Giotto's flock of angels from the blue vaulting of a little church in Padua, and near them walked Hamlet and the garlanded Ophelia, fair similitudes of all sadness and misunderstanding in the world, and there stood Gianozzo, the aeronaut, in his burning balloon and blew a blast on his horn, Attila carrying his new headgear in his hand, and the Borobudur reared its soaring sculpture in the air.†   (source)
  • When Wynand opened his second paper—in Philadelphia—the local publishers met him like European chieftains united against the invasion of Attila.†   (source)
  • What would Attila have been without his courage, or Shylock without self-denial as regards the flesh?†   (source)
  • The spawn of Attila must be crushed ("exterminated," said the Reverend Mr. Smallwood) by the sons of freedom.†   (source)
  • He was one of the first Nordic men who had invented civilization, or who had desired to do otherwise than Attila the Hun had done, and the battle against chaos sometimes did not seem to be worth fighting.†   (source)
  • I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns.†   (source)
  • What devil or what witch was ever so great as Attila, whose blood is in these veins?†   (source)
  • Braid them, twist them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube.†   (source)
  • In regard to the migration of the peoples it does not enter anyone's head today to suppose that the renovation of the European world depended on Attila's caprice.†   (source)
  • The nations took Attila, who was doomed to destroy them, for a conqueror similar to other conquerors, and it was necessary for both to reveal their missions, that they might be known and acknowledged; one was compelled to say, 'I am the angel of the Lord'; and the other, 'I am the hammer of God,' in order that the divine essence in both might be revealed."†   (source)
  • * *learn Look, Attila, the greate conqueror, Died in his sleep, <19> with shame and dishonour, Bleeding aye at his nose in drunkenness: A captain should aye live in soberness And o'er all this, advise* you right well *consider, bethink What was commanded unto Lemuel; <20> Not Samuel, but Lemuel, say I. Reade the Bible, and find it expressly Of wine giving to them that have justice.†   (source)
  • [2] It was not Attila, but Totila, who in 542 besieged Florence, and, according to false popular tradition, burned it.†   (source)
  • And were it not that at the passage of the Arno some semblance of him yet remains, those citizens who afterwards rebuilt it upon the ashes that were left by Attila[2] would have labored in vain.†   (source)
  • The divine justice here pierces that Attila who was a scourge on earth, and Pyrrhus and Sextus; and forever milks the tears that with the boiling it unlocks from Rinier of Corneto, and from Rinier Pazzo, who upon the highways made such warfare.†   (source)
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