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Attila
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  • Beneath that stern, relentless exterior, he was a superintelligent man-and he could not have failed to be amused at the daily Attila the Hun act he put on for us.†  (source)
  • In addition to Socrates, I knew a White Russian named Attila at the Boston School of Business Administration.†  (source)
  • When she was still active, they called her Attila the Huness.†  (source)
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  • This man is a Napoleon, a Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun.†  (source)
  • His countenance and dress was that of a Mongol, but of a high caste—more Genghis Khan than Attila the Hun.†  (source)
  • She is a lady indeed, although my limited experience of her suggests that she is also a mixture of the warrior queen Boadicea without the chariot, Catherine de' Medici without the poisoned rings, and Attila the Hun without his wonderful sense of fun.†  (source)
  • The vision was so out of character—like Attila the Hun wearing ballerina shoes.†  (source)
  • "Ah," said Attila, "those people!"†  (source)
  • One of those thighs that made the bird seem to ride like an Attila's horseman through the air.†  (source)
  • What would Attila have been without his courage, or Shylock without self-denial as regards the flesh?†  (source)
  • When Wynand opened his second paper—in Philadelphia—the local publishers met him like European chieftains united against the invasion of Attila.†  (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)
  • 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)
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