The Collaborative International Dictionary
Legionary \Le"gion*a*ry\ (l[=e]"j[u^]n*[asl]*r[y^]), n.; pl.
Legionaries (-r[i^]z).
A member of a legion.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of legionary English)
Usage examples of "legionaries".
She and her husband no longer camped with the legionaries, having joined several of Senpat Sviodo's cousins among the Vaspura kaners who marched with Gavras.
A scouting column of three cohorts of Roman legionaries, led by military tribune Marcus Aemilius Scaurus and senior centurion Gaius Philippus, was returning to Julius Caesar's main army when they were ambushed by Gauls.
Covered by a screening force of light cavalry from Vi dessos' eastern neighbor Khatrish, the legionaries tramped east toward the town of Khiiat as fast as their many injuries would allow.
Granted a respite by the Yezda, the legionaries erected their usual fortified camp.
At their center marched a hollow square of legionaries, old bulls pro tecting the women, children, and wounded within.
And the legionaries shouted in amazement and dread, for their swords drove through the Yezda as if through smoke, and their bodies met no resistance from the solid-seeming foe.
The priest used his healing art on the legionaries and did his best to teach it to the Greek.
When he ordered the legionaries still there to chop the stakes of the palisade into arm-long lengths, they grinned knowingly and fell to like so many small boys involved in a mammoth practical joke.
Drenched and miserable, the legionaries and their companions struggled through a series of crisscrossing little canyons more bewildering than Minos' labyrinth.
And he pushed himself even harder than his legionaries, not wanting to give them any opening to mock him.
Marcus still found their patterns alien and still attached to the groupings the names his legionaries had given them more than a year ago.
Gavras' expression cleared as he surveyed the broad ditch and stake-topped earthwork the legionaries already had nearly done.
The legionaries proved skilled help for the artisans, as they were used to aiding their own engineer pla toons.
Cursing as they scrambled from their bedrolls, legionaries poured out of the tents in camp and, still buckling on armor, began to form up.
The legionaries stood for a moment as if suspecting a trick, then, shaking their heads in annoyance, went back to their still warm blankets.