phenix
Americannoun
noun
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The story of the phenix rising from its own ashes with a twinkling star upon its head, seems to have been an antient hieroglyphic emblem of the destruction and resuscitation of all things.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
"You are a phenix among womens," he said, paternally patting me on the shoulder.
From Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins
There is a figure of the great Platonic year with a phenix on his hand on the reverse of a medal of Adrian.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
I saw that Knight Templar thrice borne to the ground, by the powerful arm in the sable mail, and thrice arise again, like a phenix from its ashes, to renew the deadly struggle.
From The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence by Maturin Murray Ballou
From these seeds in springtime, as out of the ashes of the phenix, will come forth living things, stalks bearing fruits, "earth's treasures."
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
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