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Usage examples of vandal.

Such indeed was the fate of Radagaisus himself, of his brave and faithful companions, and of more than one third of the various multitude of Sueves and Vandals, of Alani and Burgundians, who adhered to the standard of their general.

The Vandals and the Ostrogoths persevered in the profession of Arianism till the final ruin of the kingdoms which they had founded in Africa and Italy.

If Basiliscus had seized the moment of consternation, and boldly advanced to the capital, Carthage must have surrendered, and the kingdom of the Vandals was extinguished.

The spectator who casts a mournful view over the ruins of ancient Rome, is tempted to accuse the memory of the Goths and Vandals, for the mischief which they had neither leisure, nor power, nor perhaps inclination, to perpetrate.

What he failed to foresee was that the freed Vandal, in lunatic industrialized vengeance, would set out to nail eleven million Christs to the cross.

Yet I strongly suspect that their ignorance of antiquity, the love of the marvellous, and the fashion of extolling the philosophy of Barbarians, has induced them to describe, as one voluntary act, the calamities of three hundred years since the first fury of the Donatists and Vandals.

Five hundred episcopal churches were overturned by the hostile fury of the Donatists, the Vandals, and the Moors.

Vandals, Huns, Gepidae, Lombards, Heruli all came and went without leaving any notable traces.

But the purest reward of Belisarius was in the faithful execution of a treaty for which his honor had been pledged to the king of the Vandals.

Look at Rome under the soldier emperors, and Assyria under Sardanapalus, and Egypt under the later Ramessids, and the Vandal African empire under Gelimer.

Since I had previously known men of most of the Germanic nationalities, I could recognize a Burgund, a Frank, a Vandal, a Gepid, a Suevian, even though they dressed and spoke and even looked much alike.

Burgund lands, but we also had numerous Franks and Vandals, several Suevians and a few representatives of other Germanic nations and tribes.

Mediterranean: with the Vandals in Africa, the Suevians in Hispania, the Roman colonies in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Arabia Petraea.

Four days later, vandals entered the site and placed live alligators in three portable toilets.

Vandals and thieves had been at work for centuries, but teams of archeologists were now trying to retrieve details of everyday life during the age of the dictators.