Example Sentences

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And the Laird of Cockpen either marries the next young lady on his list, or, departing to far lands, discovers that the supply of Calypsos and Ariadnes is practically unlimited.

From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Boldrewood, Rolf

Ah, these Aspasias, these Circes, these Calypsos, these Cleopatras, with their blue, their gray, their amber eyes!

From Man on the Box by MacGrath, Harold