PYRRHIC • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Pyrrhic

... Pyrrhic victory," he said. "We had the superior numbers, and it was all we could do to beat them back. Besides, they surprised us, when we thought we had a patent ...

— The Star of Gettysburg - A Story of Southern High Tide • Joseph A. Altsheler

... engaged persons to encounter wild beasts, and for various other services in the theater. He presented the public with the representation of a naval fight, upon sea-water, with huge fishes swimming in it; as also with the Pyrrhic dance, performed by certain youths, to each of whom, after the performance was over, he granted the freedom of Rome. During this diversion, a bull covered Pasiphae, concealed within a wooden statue of a cow, as many of the spectators believed. Icarus, upon his first attempt to fly, ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome • Various