Maera
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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They married in 1954, but it wasn’t until 1963 that the conjoined career of Stiller and Maera took off, with an appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
From Los Angeles Times
As a matador dies, his sensory perception radically changes and ends with his last heartbeat in a series of effective repetitions and comparisons: “Maera felt everything getting larger and larger and then smaller and smaller. Then it got larger and larger and larger and then smaller and smaller. Then everything commenced to run faster and faster as when they speed up a cinematograph film. Then he was dead.”
Erigone, guided by her faithful dog Maera, found his grave, and hanged herself on the tree.
From Project Gutenberg
Similarly Procyon became Maera, the dog of Icarius, when Bo�tes became Icarius, and Virgo his daughter Erigone.
From Project Gutenberg
Phaedra was there, and Procris, and Ariadne, mournful for Theseus's desertion, and Maera, and Clymene, and Eryphile, who preferred gold before wedlock faith.
From Project Gutenberg
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