Trinacrian
Britishadjective
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"Sciochezza di Napoli" retorts the dealer at Messina or Palermo, vindicating at once his own honour, which seems aspersed, and that of his Trinacrian associates.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
Secondly, he must keep down appetite, particularly at the Trinacrian Isle, and not slay the Oxen of the Sun, else the penalty will follow there too.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
His sacrilegious train, who dared to prey On herds devoted to the god of day, Were doom'd by Jove, and Phoebus' just decree, To perish in the rough Trinacrian sea.
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
Never did king of Assyria or Babylon, never did Greek or Trinacrian tyrant possess so lustrous a pearl as Candaules, son of Myrsus and descendant of Heracles, King of Sardes and of Lydia!
From King Candaules by Lafcadio Hearn
And 'twas thus— "By the blue Trinacrian sea, Far in pastoral Sicily With Theocritus"— That I answered you who asked.
From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Julius Madison Cawein
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