How To Use Adonis In A Sentence
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Adonis _Adonis_ apropos _apropo_ bowsprit _bowsprit_ brooch _broch_ not _broosh_ compromise _compromize_ jowl _jol_, not like _owl_ molecular _molecular_ ogle _ogle_ trow _tro_ vocable _vocable_ zoology _zoology_, not _zoo_
Practical Grammar and Composition
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The name Adonis is not here used, as Adon is the appropriated title of Jehovah.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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She elopes with her 19-year-old ‘Adonis’, Charles, to a convenient public house in Chelsea, where she finally surrenders her maidenhead.
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Adonis _Adonis_ apropos _apropo_ bowsprit _bowsprit_ brooch _broch_ not _broosh_ compromise _compromize_ jowl _jol_, not like _owl_ molecular _molecular_ ogle _ogle_ trow _tro_ vocable _vocable_ zoology _zoology_, not _zoo_
Practical Grammar and Composition
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Adonis-in-bag adjusted his polished all-rounder with a delicately gloved finger, and declared that the painter was "a jol-ly fel-low.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
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Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece are discourses, sequent and complementary, on sex.
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Adonis amurensis is perennial herb, Its roots are nearly primary structure in the whole life, Primary Xylems of main root and lateral roots of one year seedling are diarch.
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I look round, expecting to see some six foot Adonis with a winning smile and an easy charm.
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Every "Adonis" potato is inoculated for wireworm before leaving our grounds.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 14, 1917
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It is true that the title strictly signified no more than "lord"; yet the legends which connect these Cyprian princes with the goddess of love make it probable that they claimed the divine nature as well as the human dignity of Adonis.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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He has the looks of the Sixth Former and the body of a Greek Adonis with an innocent farm boy look in his eye.
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Summer flowering plants are indicated by the Latin name aestate; there's Leucojum aestivum, the summer snowflake, and Adonis aestivalis from the buttercup family.
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The Adonis Blue is one of the most characteristic species of southern chalk downland, where it flies low over short-grazed turf.
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The guy stands up slowly and for the second time that day, I am struck dumb by the sight of an Adonis.
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Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seemingly endless supply of good fortune.
Fortunate Son: Summary and book reviews of Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley.
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Right from the white-T-shirted, blue-jeaned Adonis of his early films, and even before that, Brando was a rebel and a maverick.
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It happened that just at that time, the annual period for the celebration of the festival of Adonis, according to the old fashion, came round; the story being, as the poets relate, that Adonis had been loved by Venus, and slain by a boar's tusk, which is an emblem of the fruits of the earth being cut down in their prime.
The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens
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Unfortunately, Teo had a body and face that would shame Adonis.
THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
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It is true that the title strictly signified no more than lord; yet the legends which connect these Cyprian princes with the goddess of love make it probable that they claimed the divine nature as well as the human dignity of Adonis.
Chapter 31. Adonis in Cyprus
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Shakespeare early time creation ' s Crowning Work, is the long poem "Venus and Adonis", "Phoenix and the Turtle Dove" With 154 sonnet in overwhelming majorities.
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A blond-haired Adonis with piercing blue eyes, his intense, neurotic messianic Lawrence is always the performance by which he will be most readily remembered.
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Shelley's draft manuscripts abound with drawings and doodlings, and besides his well-known sketches of romantic landscapes, sailboats, and demonic figures, he also did playful sketches of two boys in Eton costume urinating into a stream and (among the drafts of Adonais) sketched a small naked male figure with a spear (probably representing John Keats as Adonis) who was being urinated upon by a headless torso (probably representing the anonymous reviewers of the Quarterly Review [6]).
Shelley Comes of Age
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As also befits Morrissey's universe, there are two would-be controlling women with designs on said Adonis, in the aforementioned smuggler and painter who are played respectively by Olga Lirian who appears as herself in Let's Get Lost and factory legend Viva Hoffman, who delivers a line that could be straight from Morrissey's mouth, as she discusses her estate while proposing-slash-propositioning a pre-nup marraige to the Argentine: My father was smart.
Michael Vazquez: Warhol Factory Auteur Paul Morrissey Premieres News From Nowhere In-Person at Lincoln Center Tonight
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In actuality it is an ideal that describes not a woman at all, but a perfect male youth: the Adonis of legend.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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The newcomer was not an Adonis, perhaps, but he was one compared with the awkward, leaning Tower of Pisa "cornstalk," who carried the jack-knife as "the homeliest man in the section.
The Lincoln Story Book
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She walked in on the arm of some blond Adonis.
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He is, I believe, half Greek so Adonis is not such an odd name. on July 30, 2008 at 9: 39 pm | Reply nightjack
School’s Out Forever « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Of this verbal music the dirge of the nymphs for Adonis and the threnos of Venus afford excellent examples
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
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Both male and female adonise their tails in this manner, which gives them a remarkable appearance amongst all other birds.
Wanderings in South America
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when Adonis died Zeus decreed that he should spend winters in the underworld with Persephone and spend summers with Aphrodite
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He is going to be given a `Donnie" at the Adonis Awards dinner.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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He has a special appearance bringing up the image of Adonis from Greek myth.
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Shortly after leaving the outskirts of Adonis the car slithered down a sloping piece of ground, teetered over a low bank, and splashed logily into water.
The Past Through Tomorrow
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Rudolph, the Adonis of the silent films, had one great quality — to make women feel weak at the knees.
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The adonis blue and 20 other butterfly species, including Britain's tiniest butterfly, the small blue, have flown on to "the butterfly haven", a flowery piece of artificial chalk downland, which was the brainchild of the school's environmental science teacher Dan Danahar.
Butterfly revival could be threatened by cuts, warns charity
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Rudolph, the Adonis of the silent films, had one great quality — to make women feel weak at the knees.
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The 52-year-old musician, born Adonis Michaelides in Nicosia, Cyprus, had co-founded the band with schoolfriends from Catford but after its first demise in 1982, briefly formed Dali's Car with vocalist Peter Murphy, previously with postpunk bank Bauhaus.
Former Japan bass player Mick Karn loses battle with cancer
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She was the arbitress in the argument over Adonis between Persephone and Aphrodite.
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Parliamentary secretaries (unless they are called Adonis) exist to sign letters, reply to debates at uncongenial hours, and read briefs approved by their elders if not betters.
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A number of herbs including oleander, adonis, black Indian hemp, black hellebore, lily-of-the-valley, squill, and strophanthus contain an active cardiac glycoside that can potentiate digoxin.
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But when word gets out that Adonis's film is about to air, a couple dozen "populars" file in to watch the Adonis offering.
Archive 2007-03-01
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He will be here shortly," replied I, "but he positively refused to face the ladies till he had changed his shooting costume, so I left him up at the Hall to adonise.
Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
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This may be seen in the figure of Adonis, naked and bareheaded in some other examples, but here at least partially dressed, and equipped with a broad-brimmed hat and various accoutrements, including his hunting horn.
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[104] „ Adonis ... and Adonai Tammuz : Adonis is familiar, of course, but Adonai?
Archive 2006-03-01
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Hotchkiss glanced round to see the Adonis stalking back to his car.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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Adonis _Adonis_ apropos _apropo_ bowsprit _bowsprit_ brooch _broch_ not _broosh_ compromise _compromize_ jowl _jol_, not like _owl_ molecular _molecular_ ogle _ogle_ trow _tro_ vocable _vocable_ zoology _zoology_, not _zoo_
Practical Grammar and Composition
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There were dolphins, and swans, pomegranates and lime trees as she toyed with her human lover, Adonis, arguing for his love with Persephone.
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Ye same did rede a portion of his "Venus and Adonis," to their prodigious admiration, whereas I, being sleepy and fatigued withal, did deme it but paltry stuff, and was the more discomforted in that ye blody bucanier had got his wind again, and did turn his mind to farting with such villain zeal that presently I was like to choke once more.
1601
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And in the legend of Venus and Adonis the anemone is the flower that sprang from the tears of the queen as she mourned the death of her loved one.
Some Spring Days in Iowa
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After all, are not all religions but the theological symbolization of natural phenomena; and the sacraments, the festivals, and fasts of all the churches have their counterparts in the mysterious processes and manifestations of Nature? and is the contemplation of the resurrection of Adonis or Thammuz more edifying to the soul than to meditate the strange return of the spring which their legends but ecclesiastically celebrate?
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
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Adonis _Adonis_ apropos _apropo_ bowsprit _bowsprit_ brooch _broch_ not _broosh_ compromise _compromize_ jowl _jol_, not like _owl_ molecular _molecular_ ogle _ogle_ trow _tro_ vocable _vocable_ zoology _zoology_, not _zoo_
Practical Grammar and Composition
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For the rest, he expounded some of the standard anti-Stratfordian delusions, e. g., that Venus and Adonis is exceptionally learned and that the Stratford Man made his money as a “grain trader”.
Stromata Blog:
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George III was a lugubriously unprogressive monarch roused by Fox's licentiousness; Pitt was the dreary juvenile hero of our new foreign secretary; neither would have expected to find the liberal and modern Adonis at their side.
The public wants a ceasefire, so let's give peace a chance
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In other countries there are homologous deities, such as Ea, Tammuz, Adonis, and Attis, which are certainly manifestations of the same idea and sprung from the same source.
The Evolution of the Dragon
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Venus made Adonis an anemone when a boar killed him.
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If it fits and is well cut, the tailcoat can turn any man - short or gangly, fat or lanky - into an Adonis.
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As her eyes adjusted to the gloom of the small chapel, through the haze of the burning sulphur and olibanum, she spied the glorious form of her Adonis lying upon the marble slab of the anointing table.
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So Venus did by her Adonis, the moon with Endymion, they are still dallying and culling, as so many doves, Columbatimque labra conserentes labiis, and that with alacrity and courage,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Many thanks, Philip, but before I adonise my outward man I should wish to satisfy my inward cravings; and, to tell you the truth, I'm so hungry from not having broken my fast for nearly twenty-four hours, that if you could order something to eat while you are looking out the clothes, I should feel in no small degree grateful.
The Privateersman
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It is true that the title strictly signified no more than “lord”; yet the legends which connect these Cyprian princes with the goddess of love make it probable that they claimed the divine nature as well as the human dignity of Adonis.
The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion
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Shakespeare's _Venus and Adonis_, in like manner, is so written as to force the reader to feel with Venus the seduction of Adonis.]
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
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Adonis _Adonis_ apropos _apropo_ bowsprit _bowsprit_ brooch _broch_ not _broosh_ compromise _compromize_ jowl _jol_, not like _owl_ molecular _molecular_ ogle _ogle_ trow _tro_ vocable _vocable_ zoology _zoology_, not _zoo_
Practical Grammar and Composition
