Boone himself regarded the golden present as an era for which the whole future must pay with unrelieved Levies of black despair.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
The Assyrian armies were as yet neither composed of soldiers of fortune, nor, it appears, swelled by such heterogeneous provincial Levies as would follow the Great Kings of Asia in later days; but they were still recruited from the sturdy peasantry of Assyria itself.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
Moreover, why should these same lands not bear a part for the empire in both defence and attack by supplying Levies of their own to the imperial armies?
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth