Example Sentences

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If we miss the plate-fleet, my masters, if we find Cartagena or Santa Marta too strong for us, there is yet the unconquered land, the Hesperidian garden whence came these golden apples!

From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary

"We will take her a swanboat, or one of the Hesperidian apples, or the Golden Fleece."

From The Silver Butterfly by Christy, Howard Chandler