Euboean
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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Having sailed through the Euboean strait, the fleet doubled the promontory of Sunium, and did not stop till it reached the island of Salamis.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir
The valley of the Cephissus, a small stream running through Doris, Phocis, and Boeotia, into the Euboean Gulf.
From Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems by Arnold, Matthew
So spake he weeping, and his host let loose from every band, Until at last they draw anigh Cumæ's Euboean strand.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William
Some time in that year Tenedos, Chios, Chalcis in Euboea, and probably the Euboean cities Eretria, Carystus and Arethusa gave in their adherence, followed by Perinthus, Peparethus, Sciathus and other maritime cities.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
Take me to your home, or to the harbor of Euboean Chalkis.
From Philoktetes by McNamee, Gregory
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