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31 examples of Centurion in a sentence

With things like Mary being turned away from the Inn because she was black, and lines by the centurion "you're not black enough" its not hard not to see how poorly this was put together.
He became hated by the whole world, and also feared by those he had around him, to such an extent that he was murdered in the midst of his army by a centurion.
Antoninus had not taken this care, but had contumeliously killed a brother of that centurion, whom also he daily threatened, yet retained in his bodyguard; which, as it turned out, was a rash thing to do, and proved the emperor's ruin.
Bronzebeard wished absolutely to send a centurion to him with the friendly advice to open his veins."
He slept all the day following his visit to Chrysothemis, it is true; but in the evening he gave command to bear him to the Palatine, where he had a confidential conversation with Nero; in consequence of this, on the third day a centurion, at the head of some tens of pretorian soldiers, appeared before the house of Plautius.
So when the centurion struck the hammer at Aulus's door, and when the guard of the atrium announced that there were soldiers in the anteroom, terror rose through the whole house.
Aulus passed out to the atrium, where the centurion was waiting for him.
He looked for some time at the tablets and the signet; then raising his eyes to the old centurion, he said calmly,--"Wait, Hasta, in the atrium till the hostage is delivered to thee."
Here he whispered to Pomponia that under the form of an escort she could add as many slaves as she thought proper, for the centurion could not refuse to receive them.
Nero will not see her, perhaps, all the more since he left everything to me, to the degree that just now the centurion was here with information that he had conducted the maiden to the palace and committed her to Acte.
But the chief centurion smiled at him in a friendly manner, then advanced a number of steps, and said,--"A greeting, noble tribune.
The fate of the whole empire might depend on the health and life of the infant Augusta; but Vinicius was so occupied with himself, his own case and his love, that without paying attention to the news of the centurion he answered, "I only wish to see Acte."
At the fountain of Mercury, however, he saw a centurion who was known to him.
Recognizing a tribune and an Augustian, the centurion did not dare to disobey the order.
The slave disappeared behind the curtain; a moment later heavy steps were heard, and an acquaintance of Petronius appeared, the centurion Aper, armed, and with an iron helmet on his head.
"He will read a new book of the Troyad this evening, and invites me to come.'"I have only the order to deliver the letter," said the centurion.
But, centurion, thou mightst rest a while with us and empty a goblet of wine?""Thanks to thee, noble lord.
When he had said this, the centurion shook a little wine from the goblet in honor of Mars; then he emptied it, and said,--"May the gods grant thee, lord, what thou desirest."
He wanted to terrify me by sending the invitation through a centurion.
They will ask the centurion in the evening how I received him.
All the pretorian guards taking turn before the Mamertine prison knew him, and generally they raised not the least difficulty; this time, however, the line did not open, but a centurion approached him and said,--"Pardon, noble tribune, to-day we have a command to admit no one."
When he had finished, he took it himself to the Christian centurion who carried it at once to the prison.
The converted centurion was to bear this letter to her on the morrow.
But when Vinicius came to the prison next morning, the centurion left the rank, approached him first, and said,--"Listen to me, lord.
The young tribune stood some time with drooping head; then raised it and said in a whisper,--"True, centurion.
The pretorian guards were increased; command over them was held, not by a centurion, but by the tribune Subrius Flavius, known hitherto for blind attachment to Nero.
He looked once more at Subrius Flavius, at Scevinus the centurion, a relative of the senator, at the soldiers; and seeing everywhere frowning brows, excited faces, and eyes fixed on him, he gave the sign for mercy.
The faithful from beyond the Tiber joined the procession; and such a throng of people was formed that the centurion commanding the pretonians understood at last that he was leading a high-priest surrounded by believers, and grew alarmed because of the small number of soldiers.
The centurion stopped the soldiers at the fountain, for the moment had come.
That was the centurion coming with soldiers for the head of Ahenobarbus.