Larissa

[luh-ris-uh; Greek lah-ree-sah]

noun

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Examples from the Web for larissa

And it is grieving for one of its congregation: Larissa Atanázio, who was 14.
Brazil's School Shooting: What Happened Inside
Dom Phillips
April 9, 2011
Larissa MacFarquhar has an excellent, zillion-word piece in the current New Yorker about Kennedy.
How Hillary's Feeling About Caroline
Christopher Buckley
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One year he is making a raid into Macedonia and Thessaly and plundering Larissa.
Theodoric the Goth
Thomas Hodgkin
The identity of Larissa and Mespila has been much discussed.
A History of Art in Chalda & Assyria, v. 1
Georges Perrot
In the neighborhood of Larissa the events of war were protracted and balanced.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
The ambassadors returned to Larissa, to Hostilius, for by him they had been sent.
The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End
Titus Livius
A stone weighing seventy-two pounds fell at Larissa, in Macedonia.
Meteoric astronomy:
Daniel Kirkwood