legions
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Examples
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in an oddly zigzagged path toward a goal, not a horse thundering down the flat.
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.
We have no other alternative than independence, or the most ignominious and galling servitude. The legions of our enemies thicken on our plains; desolation and death mark their bloody career; whilst the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from Heaven.
The East bowed low before the blast, In patient deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again.
They are afraid of nothing," I grumbled, watching their approach through the window. "Together they would brave Satan and all his legions.