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Attila
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  • This man is a Napoleon, a Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun.†  (source)
  • I'm tempted, Attila, but I think Bro's counting on us.†  (source)
  • The vision was so out of character—like Attila the Hun wearing ballerina shoes.†  (source)
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  • In addition to Socrates, I knew a White Russian named Attila at the Boston School of Business Administration.†  (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)
  • "Ah," said Attila, "those people!"†  (source)
  • 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)
  • What would Attila have been without his courage, or Shylock without self-denial as regards the flesh?†  (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)
  • When Wynand opened his second paper—in Philadelphia—the local publishers met him like European chieftains united against the invasion of Attila.†  (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)
  • 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)
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