Example Sentences

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For Kitty, the capricious, had appeared at dinner in a quasi-Greek dress, white, soft, and flowing, without an ornament.

From The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Mr. Tite was a classical man, and the result was a quasi-Greek, Roman, and Composite building.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

It is not uncommon to see in front of a square brick house a wooden quasi-Greek portico, with a pediment and Ionic columns, equally high with the house itself.

From North America — Volume 1 by Trollope, Anthony

Shelley, in this quasi-Greek poem, takes no count of the fact that the sun, when it ceases to illumine one part of the earth, is shining upon another part.

From Adonais by Shelley, Percy Bysshe