Lerna
noun
a marshy region near Argos, Greece: the legendary abode of the Hydra slain by Hercules.
Lerne
-
a variation of
Lerna.
Example Sentences
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Attention to the poor boy who had been torn by the lion brought him into the great village of workmen's huts, that had risen up round the Hydriot clay works on the Lerne.
From My Young Alcides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
"Love!" replies Nature: "Lerne to love," quod Kynde · "and leve of alle othre."
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
Besides, at the same early period, under the almost homonym of “corragh,” it floated—still floats—on the waters of the Lerne, far west of anywhere the Romans ever went.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
Three nervous old ladies who lived near the Lerne gave notice to quit, and many declared that it was an indictable offence.
From My Young Alcides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
I beg your pardon, sir, but it is Mr. Yolland they say has blowed himself up with his experiments, and all the old 'Dragon's Head' in Lerne Street, and he is buried under the ruins.
From My Young Alcides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
