Sentence examples for a gaul from inspiring English sources

One shows a Gaul awakening a slumbering Egyptian maenad; another, commemorating Napoleon's return to France, portrays him as Mercury flying above the pyramids.

He spent his last holiday researching and delivering a series of talks on the ancient wine trade and what it meant for a Gaul to become a Roman: "It may sound odd, but I found it immensely refreshing".

Saul is strong, fit as an Olympic athlete, indomitable as a Gaul, but still only 8. Was it crazy and cruel to ask him to walk down then up a whole mile of elevation?

The bones haven't yet been analysed, but the presumption is that they are those of the helmet's owner, who must have been a warrior — and could in those complicated times have been a Gaul fighting either by Caesar's side, or with the defending Britons.

Paulinus acted harshly after his victory, but the procurator of the province, Julius Classicianus, with the revenues in mind and perhaps also because, as a Gaul by birth, he possessed a truer vision of provincial partnership with Rome, brought about his recall.

For all that each of his Tours has been won in the mountains, even Armstrong's biggest fan in the pantheon, Merckx, says that his strategy of leaving everything to the final climb to the finish is not that of one of the great climbers, a Charly Gaul or a Pantani, who would gamble on an all-or-nothing attack several passes from the finish.

According to the ancient author Plutarch, the conflict cost over a million Gaul lives, with a further million sold into slavery, while vast tracts of the region were devastated.

Froome is not a Marco Pantani or a Charly Gaul, one of the lightly built mountain climbers who, for decades, have blasted away on the Tour's steepest ascents with scant regard for the gravity which holds down mere mortals.

The Romans knew a second Gaul, Cisalpine Gaul (Gallia Cisalpina, or "Gaul This Side of the Alps"), in northern Italy which, however, does not belong to the history of France.

This homey place has palpable charm, while the cuisine impresses even the French clientele – some of whom find it difficult to believe that their meal was not prepared by a fellow Gaul.

I was delighted to learn that Mary's love of ancient Rome was first kindled by close study of one of the empire's most implacable enemies, a plucky Gaul named Asterix, and his cartoon companions, Obelix and Dogmatix the dog.