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Eolus

American  
[ee-oh-luhs] / iˈoʊ ləs /

noun

  1. Mount, a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,083 feet (4,292 meters).


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Eolus Vind, which builds wind farms and has projects under consideration in the affected areas, said it needed more clarity from authorities.

From Reuters Apr. 18, 2018

Eolus sends it his liveliest comrades, Who wildly play to the jolliest measures; One pipes his horn, another blows, A third scrapes his growling bass-viol.

From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine

Chaucer with a bolder personification sends for Eolus, "that king of Thrace," from "his cave of stone," to sound his "trump of gold."

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope

As she approached, she made the number of the Eolus.

From The Three Commanders by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale

The second company arrive immediately afterwards, and prefer the same request in the lines versified by Pope, when Fame, with her usual capriciousness, refuses their prayer, and orders Eolus to sound their praises.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope

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