Proserpine
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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While in the Underworld, Proserpine eats pomegranate seeds, which means she has to stay with Pluto for part of the year and then can return above.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2022
I’d forgotten Cyane, the naiad, who rises from the river to beg Pluto not to take Proserpine.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2022
Proserpine in this case at #Ashmolean #Museum #Oxford.
From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2020
John Collins, a member of the Whitsundays government council, was sheltering from the storm with his wife and four daughters inside their house in Proserpine.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2017
“Now we are to imitate the soul-song of our beloved Proserpine, as she stirs to wake in all her liquid self.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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