How To Use Cytherea In A Sentence
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It is a skilful art, nevertheless, and "Cytherea" confirms a judgment long held that Mr. Hergesheimer is one of the most skilful craftsmen in English in our day.
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
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In "Cytherea" the less lovely, but equally moral Fanny loses her Lee because she cannot satisfy his longings and nags when she fails.
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
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Cytherea was an island near the point where Venus emerged from the ocean. back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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The Cytherean atmosphere is far more massive than that of the Earth, and the surface temperatures are considerably higher.
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His second book depends largely upon the craving for sex experience, in which it resembles Mr. Hergesheimer's "Cytherea," but also plays heavily upon the motive of escape, and upon sheer curiosity.
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
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Note 61: "Mars ferus et summum tangens cytherea tonantem dant tibi regna pares et tua fata movent.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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A subversive Cytherean imagery was next taken up by the poet and fabulist Jean de La Fontaine, friend to Scudery and admirer of Marino.
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Next in order had been wrought Cytherea with drooping tresses, wielding the swift shield of Ares; and from her shoulder to her left arm the fastening of her tunic was loosed beneath her breast; and opposite in the shield of bronze her image appeared clear to view as she stood.
The Argonautica
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[2008 / 09 / 12 18: 59] Prokofy Neva: I saw that Sarah Nerd called Cytherea a bad name -- good!
Second Thoughts
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Thus she spake, and Hera took her slender hand and gently smiling, replied: “Perform this task, Cytherea, straightway, as thou sayest; and be not angry or contend with thy boy; he will cease hereafter to vex thee.”
The Argonautica
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Harriette gives the honour of her introduction into the mysteries of Cytherea to the Earl of Craven; but it is well known that a certain dashing solicitor's clerk then living in the neighbourhood of Chelsea, and near her amiable mamma's residence, first engrossed, her attention, and by whom she exhibited increasing symptoms of affection, which being properly engrafted on the person of the fair stockinger, in due time required a release from a practitioner of another profession; an innocent affair that now lies buried deep in an odd corner at the old churchyard at Chelsea, without a monumental stone or epitaph to point out the early virtues of the fair Cytherean.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
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The warm tint added to Cytherea's face a voluptuousness which youth and a simple life had not yet allowed to express itself there ordinarily; whilst in the elder lady's face it reduced the customary expression, which might have been called sternness, if not harshness, to grandeur, and warmed her decaying complexion with much of the youthful richness it plainly had once possessed.
Desperate Remedies