What is "mias"

Usage examples of "mias".

Are you not better than the Mias, who regard an aged person as merely a body to be mutilated for the glory of a bloody god?

Now, facing the Mias, stood the harrow formation of the quincunx, from which poured such a devastating volley that the attackers shrank back upon themselves.

And Tolteca, whose charge they were, broke its ranks like cravens, and let the Mias through!

Attacked in their lake country of Aztlan, beyond us to the north, by a vastly superior force of Mias, they had refused to become Tlapallicos, had beaten off their attackers and quitted their beloved country to go south.

Though connected by no Wall of Hadrian, this system was fully as efficient as Britain’s, at this time, for the Mias had no organized attack to fear.

Even among the ruling class of the Mias, an individual with an incurable disease was marked for death upon the altar of the Egg, whose priests had never enough sacrifices stored below hi the pits to satisfy Ciacoatl, called the Devourer.

They are filled with slaves, who fight now for the Mias, but who would gladly fight for us if they had a chance of whining.

Although the words were dissimilar, the sentence structure of the Mias was much the same as their own, which was a help to us.

From afar the Mias had died, struck down by the new weapon their Kukul-can had been too slow, too niggardly, to furnish them.

It was a disappointment to find that the retreating bands of Mias had devastated the fields of growing gram and vegetables, burned buildings and stores of provisions, and stripped the sections of country in our path bare of anything which might be of use to us.

While you take your ease, your friends and fellows have been fallen upon by the Mias and are dying in torture.

The cry of those oppressed by the Mias rises to the stars for vengeance.

The Mias have thrown up a great mound of earth over the bodies of those brave men who held the two crescents of the Middle Fort and there they are praying to the Sun to receive those souls.

These Mias were not demons, not inhuman—at least not more than other men—they knew loyalty and courage.

To be sure, this was no country for a great arboreal ape to make a sudden disappearance, there being nothing but bare lava and a stunted bush or two, but even so he kept his distance, watching the mias intently.