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Definition of Auxiliaries
1. auxiliary [n] - See also: auxiliary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Auxiliaries
Literary usage of Auxiliaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"Those who fix a regular proportion of at many foot, and twice as many horse,
confound the auxiliaries of the emperors with the Italian allies of the ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1914)
"The use of lances and of iron maces they seem to have borrowed from the barbarians.8*
Auxiliaries The safety and honour of the empire was principally ..."
3. Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus by William Smyth (1859)
"We have, in consequence, been able to eliminate the auxiliaries employed, by the
processes of ordinary Algebra alone. But there are numerous problems, ..."
4. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander Kinglake (1877)
"Without our Portuguese auxiliaries there would have been no great Peninsular War,
no successful invasion of France; without the native soldiery of Hindostan ..."
5. The Red Cross: A History of this Remarkable International Movement in the by Clara Barton (1898)
"To the army of women, brave, generous and true, who either as auxiliaries at
home, or as nurses at the field, who made up that magnificent array of ..."
6. Scotland by Walter Scott, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1901)
"... the Scots to renew the War—Inroad by John of Gaunt—John de Vienne arrives with
an Army of French Auxiliaries—They are dissatisfied with Scotland, ..."
7. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... got some boat« and auxiliaries and crossed over to tho island, to the number
of six hundred in all ; and having burnt their boats, that they might have ..."
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