Meanings of small armies in English

Suddenly the forward squads of the two small armies of blacks met.

A small war now succeeded, with small generals, small armies, small campaigns, small sieges.

These small armies were costly, and diminished to a considerable extent the profits of trade.

On either side of the River Boyne, two small armies in day-glo bright uniforms move with military precision.

The immortals had small armies.

I'd seen this subhuman type on TV and internet news sites being taken away by small armies of international law enforcement.

The Romans loved war, but so reduced it to a science that it required comparatively small armies to conquer the world.

In its earliest Asiatic form styled the Chaturanga, It was adapted for four persons, having four small armies of eight each.

Instead of keeping garrisons, with small armies, in a district, they decided to keep only so many as could profitably cultivate the land.

Especially when those people had resources sufficient for little errands like capturing ships in the mid-Pacific, and dispatching small armies to distant Polynesian islands.

The new nobility were the creations of the Tudor Kings, lacking the prestige of renowned ancestry and the means of converting retainers into small armies.

There are an estimated 20,000 paramilitaries operating throughout Colombia in numerous small armies with names like "Colombia without guerrillas" and "Death to Kidnappers".

Small armies of volunteers were gathered, getting ready to canvass the neighborhood with fliers bearing Carol's picture.

Small armies are the only good ones.

Small armies of workers were sawing and hammering away at rows of shops, twenty shops to a row, two rows to a complex.

Small armies of animators are kept busy fine-tuning films during the editing process, when they create special effects that no one is supposed to notice.