ithacan
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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The new institute is going to be on Ezra Cornell's Ithacan eminence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cornell found in Niagara a well-drilled team too light to score and lucky enough to hold the Ithacan applecart to 28 points.
From Time Magazine Archive
A wearier pilgrimage who ran Than the immortal Ithacan, Since first his great career began, Ulysses of our age!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
Princess thou hast described him: hither once240 The noble Ithacan, on thy behalf Ambassador with Menelaus, came: Beneath my roof, with hospitable fare Friendly I entertained them.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
Thus Telemachus has broken through the two restraints which held him in bondage at his Ithacan home, both keeping down his manly endeavor.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
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