Lemnian
Britishadjective
noun
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When the other Lemnian women slept she put her head upon her nurse’s knees and wept; bitterly Hypsipyle wept, but softly, for she would not have the others hear her weeping.
From The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
For, as Diphilus says, in his Lemnian Women— These men have supp'd, but I, wretch that I am, Shall be a cestreus through th' extreme of fasting.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
At the last light the Lemnian touched a rock-point well to the rear of the defence.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan
Nicochares, in his Lemnian Women, says— The trichias, and the premas tunny too, Placed in enormous quantities for supper.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
And this allusion to Vulcan reminds us that Byron, in addition to all his other early mishaps, had also the identical clubfoot of the Lemnian god.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
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