Example Sentences

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Is it that the queen Astarte strides across the fallow lands to fertilize the swelling grapes amid shrieking of her corybants?

From A Pushcart at the Curb by Dos Passos, John

With brassy crash, dawn's corybants Invade and trample the vineyard: Like a faun I hide and watch them, A dark cup in my hand.

From Goblins and Pagodas by Fletcher, John Gould