Famous crosser of the Alps

Usage examples of hannibal.

But big Churi, the leader of the Middle Lotters, our enemies, is Hannibal.

Romans had met their enemies, and Churi, as Hannibal, stood triumphant before him.

In my George and Azazel stories, characters have been named Mordecai Sims, Gottlieb Jones, Menander Block, Hannibal West, and so on.

I remembered Hannibal, who, according to Livy, opened up a passage through the Alps by breaking the rocks with axes and other instruments, having previously softened them with vinegar.

The alarmist was a horseman who gave notice that a detachment of Union soldiers was on its way from Hannibal with orders to capture and hang any bands like ours which it could find, and said we had no time to lose.

I thought that Hannibal had succeeded not by aceto, but aceta, which in the Latin of Padua might well be the same as ascia.

One can read in Livy that Hannibal overcame the Alps by means of vinegar.

Hannibal Tyree and Quincy Simms consulted together—"We's got pockets like dat Saint Patrick's well"—then somehow managed to convey a proposal to the antipodists.

Most of the men also donned clothes nattier than overalls and also went to church: Trimm to the Baptist, Roozeboom to the Methodist, Rouleau to the Episcopal—that being the closest thing to Roman Catholic in Lexington—and even Hannibal went seeking a black congregation of some denomination.

Some time later he came back to the shattered rail, and staring out at the little fleet of boats that were pulling with all their might from Gibraltar and from the sloop Calpe towards the Hannibal, he said to Jack, 'You do not suppose they mean to retake the ship, do you?

In the Royal Navy the reversed ensign was an emphatic signal of distress: the Calpe and the people in Gibraltar, seeing it, had supposed the Hannibal meant she was afloat again and was begging to be towed off.

They staked everything on decisive battle in the image of Hannibal, but even the ghost of Hannibal might have reminded Schlieffen that though Carthage won at Cannae, Rome won the war.

He beckoned to various of his windjammers—the snare and tenor drummers, the tuba and contrabass tuba, the trombone, clarinets, violins, the oboist, and to Hannibal Tyree, the bass drummer, and sent them running to the wagons to get their instruments.

Then, after the cornetist and the horn player and the trombonist and the tuba player and the accordionist had each learned his individual part, Beck would beg from Goesle two men at a time, then three, and so on—and call in Hannibal and his drum—and rehearse them gradually at playing in unison.

But let me say this to those defeatists and doubters: should the state of Denmark, now or in the future, attempt to occupy Mark Twain's Missouri, or the wonderful old South of Gone with the Wind, in the way that they have so ruthlessly occupied "Hamlet's Castle" all these centuries, I would no more hesitate to send in the Marines to free Hannibal and Atlanta and Richmond and Jackson and St.