A band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion)

Usage examples of cohort.

Roman people, three cohorts only were stationed in the capital, whilst the remainder was dispersed in the adjacent towns of Italy.

Third Century of the Tenth Cohort, Gnaeus, Clodius Afer, hunching along the rampart.

Beyond the agora, Achamian saw a cohort of birds wheeling above the great domes of the Temple Xothei, whose silhouette loomed above the tenements hedging the north end of the market.

Instead of centuries, my fellow wanderers had come to command cohorts, sturdy and strong, armed with spear, bow and sword, protected by shields of stout wood and hide, their bodies covered by thickly padded cloth armor, a good substitute for metal when used only against atlatl darts.

Ozman had ridden out with the last cohort committed, and was grinning ear to ear, his byrnie splashed with blood not his own.

The beauty and, peace of the Carag Huim and the dry, clear air were healing for my lungs if not my spirit, and they enabled me to face Alfrigg and his cohorts with equanimity.

Most of the boys were already stripping armor, and the general ordered a cohort to go and finish off the dregs, you know.

Willard Farger, who was a political cohort of the present administration, had said a lot of things and probably had access to the notes compromising CURE.

The cohorts of the Third Augusta picked themselves up behind him and rushed forward as well, though their hobnailed sandals slipped and skidded on the blood and bodies of the dead men.

It seemed clear that McInturff and his egg-hunting cohorts would either hang me from a willow tree or paddle me out to sea and toss me overboard to the archaic fishes or ichthyosaurs that yet remained.

This line of reasoning proved to be less than persuasive to my cohorts, although they did laugh a good bit on the assumption that I, as jackanapes, was trying to provide some levity.

With a last look at Jenits, she left the tent and headed for the area assigned to her cohort.

And I still wished I could have just done round sleeves like Harani or Pel or any number of other scoili in my cohort had, instead of having to waste six pins on the sleeves and leave only one for the rest of it.

She abandoned her watch on the bard and his halfling cohort while the pair was still digging through the piles of rubble.

Le Plongeon and his cohorts had been pushingthe idea that the brilliant, advanced citizens of Atlantis seeded the ancient civilizations of both hemispheres before their country sank under the sea.