Sentence example with the word 'spartan'

spartan

abbreviated, chaste, demanding, frank, long-suffering, patient, rigorous, simple-speaking, straitened, tolerative, watered

Definition adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people

Last update: September 4, 2015


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A good soldier should be spartan in nature.   [Please select]

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Settlement Of Spartan Affairs At last the obstinate resistance came to an end.   [Please select]

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No man, Caxon, ever heard of a Spartan attending the funeral of a Helot--yet I dare be sworn that John of the Girnel--ye have heard of him, Caxon.   [Please select]

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Indeed, though Manse is undeniably comic, she also commands as much respect as the Spartan mother when she bids her only son bear himself boldly in the face of torture.   [Please select]

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I knew a Spartan dame once, who had a beard almost as rough as mine.   [Please select]

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The Spartan thanked him, said farewell to Phanes, sent a greeting to Rhodopis, and then, before they could prevent him, drew the arrow from his wound with an unflinching hand.   [Please select]

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From that time the Spartan disappeared, no one knows whither; but the Greek troops allowed themselves to be bribed by immense sums and are still in Egypt.   [Please select]

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"Believe me, boy," returned Aristomachus smiling, "every Spartan would have done the same."   [Please select]

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The Spartan's face brightened visibly, and Croesus, attracted by this serious, earnest man, asked his name.   [Please select]

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"Your dialect would bespeak you my opinion a Spartan."   [Please select]

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At noon on the following day, the same boat, which, the evening before, had carried the Athenian and the Spartan, stopped once more before Rhodopis' garden.   [Please select]

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