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Cohort   /kˈoʊhɔrt/   Listen
noun
Cohort  n.  
1.
(Rom. Antiq.) A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.
2.
Any band or body of warriors. "With him the cohort bright Of watchful cherubim."
3.
(Bot.) A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class.





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"Cohort" Quotes from Famous Books



... who looks farther off—raising his eyes to the bluff on the opposite side of the river, fixing them on that spot where the Indians made halt—would hesitate before thus prognosticating. In the dusky cohort he might suspect some danger threatening the ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid
... which blows and falls More soft to those in city walls) Among my best: and keep it still Till down the fair grass-girdled hill, Where slopes my garden-slip, there goes The wandering wind that wakes the rose, And scares the cohort that explore The broad-faced sun-flower o'er and o'er, Or starts the restless bees that fret The ...
— Collected Poems - In Two Volumes, Vol. II • Austin Dobson
... think that you must be in love with this black lady; or is it her mistress whom you admire? I shall recommend you for the post of Christian-catcher to the cohort. Now we'll try that house at the corner, and if they are not there, I am off to the palace to see how his godship is getting on with that stomach-ache and whether it has moved him to order payment of our arrears. If he hasn't, I tell you flatly that I mean to help myself to something, and so do the ...
— Pearl-Maiden • H. Rider Haggard
... a yelling curse—a propos of some utterly inappropriate legal point, while to the initiated he stands for Titus the—at last exploded—'Delight of Humanity.' ... Often—far too often for the interests of study and the glory of the human race—does the steady tramp of the Roman cohort, the password of the revolution, the shriek and clangor of the bloody field, interrupt these debates, and the arguing masters and disciples don their arms, and, with the cry, 'Jerusalem and Liberty,' rush to the fray."[17] Such is the world of ...
— Jewish Literature and Other Essays • Gustav Karpeles
... master Camden noteth out of Iohannes Sarisburiensis, that the Cornish mens valiancy purchased them such reputation amongst our ancestours, as they (together with those of Deuon and Wiltshire) were wont to be entrusted, for the Subsidiary Cohort, or band of supply. An honour equall to the Romanes Triarii, and the shoot-anker of the battell. With which concurreth the ancient, if not authenticall testimony of Michael Cornubiensis, who had good ...
— The Survey of Cornwall • Richard Carew


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