Lemnian
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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But the woman persisted, and a Lemnian wife, as she is beyond other wives in virtue and comeliness, excels them in stubbornness of temper.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John
The Lemnian sat in the heart of the group, sniffing the smell of cooking, and looking at the rents in his cloak and the long scratches on his legs.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John
And Antiphanes, in his Lemnian Women, says— A three-legg'd table now is laid, and on it A luscious cheesecake, O ye honour'd gods, And this year's honey in a silver dish.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
While on Æolia's coast the Lemnian sire Wrought thus, the fair Dawn, mantling in the skies, Awakes Evander, and the lowly choir Of birds beneath the eaves invites to rise.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
And now the glorious artist, ere he yet 370 Had reach’d the Lemnian isle, limping, return’d From his feign’d journey, for his spy the sun Had told him all.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
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