"Great" empire builder of ancient Persia

Usage examples of cyrus.

The southwest corner of Anshan contains the Persian highlands, whose clan leader was Cyrus the Achaemenid, hereditary lord of Anshan.

No larger than I, she was like a fragile doll on whose neck had been set, most incongruously, the large head of Cyrus, the curve to whose Achaemenid nose so resembled that of a rooster I had got to know in our courtyard that I almost expected to see nostrils like slits set atop the bridge.

Wyndham remarked that the Jews have a tradition which in itself is very probable, that the venerable man pointed out to Cyrus, after his conquest of Babylon, the verses in Isaiah, wherein he is spoken of by name, as conquering by the power of the Lord, and giving orders to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple: and also that other passage, in which the destruction of the Babylonish empire by the Medes is foretold, both prophecies being recorded more than a hundred years before the birth of the mighty king by whom they were accomplished.

Cyrus was determined to give Jenny the grandest wedding Biloxi had ever seen.

Englishman named Cyrus Harding was a professional boatbuilder by trade.

Cyrus Harding disappeared to the moment when his companions set foot on the ground.

He was sinking from exhaustion, and certainly, had not the reporter and his companions arrived, it would have been all over with Cyrus Harding.

Cyrus Curbstone starts getting these brokered deposits, he becomes a motivated lender.

Broke-michael tape last night, and it was all Cyrus, Roman, and our two Desis could do to hold him down!

Cyrus stepped inside and gestured for Desis One and Two to do the same.

Hawk replaced the radio in the pocket of his distressed overcoat inside the great hall of the Supreme Court as Cyrus kept Aaron, Jenny, Sam and the two Desis off to the side, away from the arched metal detectors.

Cyrus as Desis One and Two raised the thick velvet cords while Aaron, Sam and Jenny swept underneath during the insanity that faced the Supreme Court police and staffers.

Cyrus Harding could not be mistaken, as, during the war of the Union, he had had occasion to try these terrible engines of destruction.

Maybe Fracto had done them a favor, blowing them here so that Cyrus had had to rescue them.

I encountered the ogres of the Ogre Fen, then ran afoul of Fracto and got washed into the Water Wing, where Cyrus rescued us.