Example Sentences

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Then bending with full force around he roll'd A labyrinth of bands in fold on fold, Closed with Circaean art.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

And here at the Cytaean mainland and from the Amarantine mountains far away and the Circaean plain, eddying Phasis rolls his broad stream to the sea.

From The Argonautica by Seaton, R. C. (Robert Cooper)

Immortal Moly11 shall secure my heart 90 From all the sorc'ry of Circaean art, And I will e'en repass Cam's reedy pools To face once more the warfare of the Schools.

From Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton by Cowper, William

The dregs corrupt   Of barbarous ages, that Circaean draught 700   Of servitude and folly, have not yet,   Bless'd be the Eternal Ruler of the world!

From Poetical Works of Akenside by Gilfillan, George

And here at the Cytaean mainland and from the Amarantine mountains far away and the Circaean plain eddying Phasis rolls his broad stream to the sea.

From The Argonautica by Seaton, R. C. (Robert Cooper)