How To Use Nymph In A Sentence
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This latest fly is based on an earlier marabou tailed damsel nymph that was weighted down with lead wire.
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Furthermore, these gene duplications evolved after the split between the common ancestor of nymphalid and papilionid butterflies.
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Those few women who shocked public feeling with a display of sexual desire were branded either as prostitutes, nymphomaniacs or lunatics.
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The hawkers, or dragon nymphs are longer and thinner and they patrol up and down looking out for prey on which to swoop.
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Bruttia Sicanium circumspicit ora Pelorum? quid primum mediumue canam, quo fine quiescam? auratasne trabis an Mauros undique postis35 an picturata lucentia marmora uena mirer, an emissas per cuncta cubilia nymphas? huc oculis, huc mente trahor. uenerabile dicam lucorum senium? te, quae uada fluminis infra cernis, an ad siluas quae respicis, aula, tacentis, 40 qua tibi tuta quies offensaque turbine nullo nox silet et pigros inuitant murmura somnos? an quae graminea suscepta crepidine fumant balnea et impositum riuis algentibus ignem? quaque uaporiferis iunctus fornacibus amnis45 ridet anhelantis uicino flumine nymphas? uidi artis ueterumque manus uariisque metalla uiua modis. labor est auri memorare figuras aut ebur aut dignas digitis contingere gemmas; quicquid et argento primum uel in aere minori50 lusit et enormis manus est experta colossos. dum uagor aspectu uisusque per omnia duco, calcabam necopinus opes. nam splendor ab alto defluus et nitidum referentes aera testae monstrauere solum; uarias ubi picta per artis55 gaudet humus superatque nouis asarota figuris: expauere gradus.
A Villa at Tibur
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Tracing the growth of the border is a pleasant pastime, a game of history in which amorini, grotesques and nymphs are the personages, and garlands of flowers their perpetual accessories, but first comes the time when there were no borders, the Middle Ages.
The Tapestry Book
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Although the adult doesn't look much like a scale, the nymph and pupa do.
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The demands which Humbert makes upon Lolita, with his appalling sentimentality, cannot possibly be met by her: and the result is a bitter comedy in which the nymphet answers his passion by demand for more iced lollies or fudge sundaes.
From the archive, 23 January 1959: Lolita and its critics
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Former Friends star Jennifer Aniston's new movie role as a 'nympho' dentist has her doing a sexy striptease.
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While the nymphs lie low, sucking roots in sheltering soil, you will steer a course from the eager springs of boyhood to the braided delta of manhood and majority.
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Non-winged and winged adults are usually shiny black while the smaller nymphs may appear to be a dull gray to black.
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By the way, Freckletits playing a nympho is about as edgy as Danny DeVito playing a short guy.
FRECKLETITS TAKES PAY CUT TO PLAY NYMPHO
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Boucher's shepherdesses are not quite those manufactured in Nymphenburg and Meissen, although their complexions have something of the translucency of porcelain, whilst his herdsmen are streamlined terracotta.
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Specially characteristic of Egypt, though not altogether peculiar to it, were the papyrus and the lotus -- the _Cyperus papyrus_ and _Nymphæa lotus_ of botanists.
Ancient Egypt
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Above float an airborne cast of Gods and Goddesses, heavenly nymphs and tree spirits, and snake-hooded nagas and naginis.
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Most people unfamiliar with my work imagine that anyone with the nickname of "Susie Sexpert" must be an id-centric airhead, a happy but too-dim nympho.
Susie Bright: The Terrible Secret of Women's Memoirs: Kill the Cookie
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The gardens, with a semi-circular water-theatre and nymphaeum are fed by an axial sequence of waterfalls, and are one of the best and most famous examples of early Italian Baroque landscape.
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The scientists found that the non-native fish are aiding bullfrog invasion by eating native dragonfly nymphs that would normally prey on bullfrog larvae.
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Nymphaea William Falconer, a medium grower, would be a better choice for the average pond.
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Pranger and her family enjoyed sneaking out at night with a flashlight to peek at the dragonfly nymphs and tiny, two-inch-long tree frogs that had taken up residence in the ponds.
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For instance, using a san jan worm as a lead or "attractor" pattern followed by an RS2 or some other small midge type nymph.
The Answer Line is Open...
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I feel so care free that I could go down on a disabled child and call them a nymphomaniac, just like him.
Cheeseburger Gothic » There will be a short break in transmission while I get back under this bus.
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Once the eggs hatch, nymphs grow for about nine to 12 days, mate, and then females lay eggs.
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Emanuel: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic (for what I know, or some mythologic nymphs) dancing before Don Miguel — the picture is there still, at the Ajuda; and ah me! where is poor Mig?
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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In very truth, thought Grainier, it is a salamandera nymphtis a goddessa bacchante of Mount Mæ nalus!
III. Besos Para Golpes. Book II
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Meursius is of opinion, that the Greeks borrowed their notion of these divinities from the Phœnicians, for _nympha_, in their language, signifying _soul_, the Greeks imagined that the souls of the ancient inhabitants of Greece had become Nymphs; particularly that the souls of those who had inhabited the woods were called Dryads; those who inhabited the mountains, Oreădes; those who dwelt on the sea-coasts,
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
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The children's trays began to fill with mayfly nymphs, aquatic sow bugs, and the larvae of blackflies, caddis flies, and bloodred midges.
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Other important plant species in the freshwater habitats include pondweed (Potamogeton crispus), water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), tape-grass (Ottelia alismoides), and buckbean (Nymphoides peltata).
Yellow Sea saline meadow
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nymphomaniac", which was far too strong a word for what, post-sexual revolution, is perfectly normal behaviour.
Top stories from Times Online
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Peele's "Arraignment of Paris, a Pastorall" is a court drama in the style of Lilly, intended to flatter the Queen, "poor in action but all the richer in gallant phrases, provided with songs, one in Italian, and with all kinds of love scenes between shepherds and shepherdesses, nymphs and terrestrial gods"; the diction is interesting, because it shows revolt from the prevailing "euphuism," and therefore Peele must be given the praise of first opposing Lilly's affected style.
The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant
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The Argo slipped through Scylla and Charybdis, guarded by nymphs.
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How can the story of a mentally defective kleptomaniac, a bookish nympho, a crippled FBI agent and a suicidal millionaire's son add up to anything but trouble?
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The presence of a fundatrix, the numbers of soldiers, nonsoldier nymphs, apterous adults (all instars), and alates were recorded.
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In this line the double value of the word nympha -- used by classical poets both in the meaning of fountain and in that of the divinity of a fountain, or spring -- reminds one of that graceful playing with words which Japanese poets practice.
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
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Mare: - granulosa cell tumours are the most common neoplasm in the mare, and the most common indication for ovariectomy - ovary palpates 10-40 cm; unlike cow, it tends to stop growth in size at about 40 cm Clinical Signs Vary: - male-like 45% - anestrus 30% - nymphomania 25%
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Morgagni describes a supernumerary left nympha, and Petit is accredited with seeing a case which exhibited neither nymphæ, clitoris, nor urinary meatus.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Trout FishingQ: Where can I find a illustration of the Czech nymph rig the author desribed in the FS June issues story, Ozark Mnt. Brk Dwn.?? thx. from flafshmn on 02.02.10
The Killers: 112 Can't-Miss Lures of Today's Top Guides
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He casts the royal coachman - white wings and russet hackle, pheasant tippits and peacock herl - to feign the nymph and summon rainbows from a shadow world.
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'There are naiads, nymphs, nixes, kelpies - loreleis, selkies, sirens - though the last two prefer the sea.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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Behind these were many ranks of pixies, gnomes and nymphs, and in the rear a thousand beautiful fairies floated along in gorgeous array.
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Nymphaea William Falconer, a medium grower, would be a better choice for the average pond.
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She was like a figure from a rococo fresco, an eighteenth-century nymph.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Other evidence of increased activity are the formation of a new line of fumaroles at Nymph Lake, just north of Norris, and marked through temporary increases in ground temperatures in Norris' Back Basin.
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The 1st-century mosaics decorated the nymphaeum, an artificial grotto with water features.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hottentot women the extraordinary prolongation of the nymphae which is often called "the Hottentot apron" or _tablier_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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She had been big for her age then and over the years had blossomed into this gorgeous nymph of a creature.
ICED
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There they shed the nymphal skin to become airborne.
How to Catch Trout on a Fly Rod with Dragon- and Damselfly Imitations
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Reader must understand that in the possession and thralldom of a nymphet the enchanted traveler stands, as it were, beyond happiness.
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Nymphs, with their desired louers, in a thousand sorts of pleasures solacing themselues vpon the greene grasse, fresh shadowes, and by the coole riuers and cleere fountaines.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
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Iris calls out river nymphs to bless the marriage and a myriad of shapes and forms enter the stage.
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These reports of high grasshopper populations are coming later than normal, and most of the reports have been of numerous smaller hopper nymphs.
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Dragonfly time is marked by the psychedelically colored adults darting about and abandoned nymphal skins clinging to shoreline vegetation, though you won't find either in big numbers.
How to Catch Trout on a Fly Rod with Dragon- and Damselfly Imitations
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The children's trays began to fill with mayfly nymphs, aquatic sow bugs, and the larvae of blackflies, caddis flies, and bloodred midges.
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The choir, made up of more than 100 children from four north Manchester primary schools in ankle socks and pigtails and cardies, sing sweetly, if not with the soaring transcendence of the 1929 recording, but their big moment – a re-creation of the occasion when the nymphs and shepherds were triumphantly hymned – is muffled: it needs to stand on its own pinnacle, away from the beguiling story of late love.
That Day We Sang; The Crash of the Elysium; The Village Bike – review
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A mayfly nymph was the most successful fly on the day and other successful flies were the Gosling and Bumble Olive.
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Hypolimnas bolina is a tropical and sub-tropical nymphalid species that is known for its aggressive territorial mate-locating behavior.
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Historically, the dynamics of grasshopper populations, especially nymphal mortality, have largely been attributed to variations in climate.
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The best flies are streamers, those big creations that imitate bait fish or large nymphs.
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Terminology "Nymphomania" and "satyriasis" are not listed as disorders in the DSM-IV, though they remain a part of ICD-10, each listed as a subtype of "Hypersexuality.
Sexual Addiction
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There is some basis for the rumour in her defiance of imperial protocol by riding cross-saddle, and a hint of overstimulation in her breathless reports of frantic gallops, but Catherine's nymphomania is a schoolboy legend.
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Dragonfly nymphs are shorter and bulkier, and the gills are located inside the abdomen.
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Yes | No | Report from jerry k wrote 1 year 3 weeks ago definatly a size 16 copper john in the nymph catagory, a size 22 jujubee for a midge, and for a dry fly a tie between a orange stimulator and a bwo thorax.
What's your favorite fly?
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Why do many helminth species, apparently grebe specialists, use dragonfly nymphs as intermediate hosts?
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Best recent catches on Watendlath have been from Mike Tinnion with over 20 rainbow trout on buzzers, fishing the evening rise. Brian Scot recorded another good bag with 15 on hoppers and damsel nymphs.
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But the eggs are not deposited in the cells simultaneously; on the contrary, in some cells are creatures big enough to fly, in others are nymphae, and in others are mere grubs.
The History of Animals
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Too long has the free world laboured under the leadership (so-called) of knaves, nymphos and knuckle-heads.
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It is possible that _Ascre_ is correct, although its use would be strange so close to _Ascra_ in 34: Ovid certainly used both _nympha_ and _nymphe_ (_Her_ IX 103; _Met_ III 357).
The Last Poems of Ovid
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All sort of mystical creatures called it their home: elves, dwarves, nymphs, and pixies, among others.
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The immediate river banks were clad with sedge, and the broad leaves of the nymphæa, a plant like the calamus of Asia, but here used only as a toothpick, began to oust the rushy and flaggy growth of the lower bed.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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3 And all the troop of lightfoot naiads lightfoot > light-footed naiads > (Or naiades: nymphs of fresh water) 4 Flock all about to see her lovely face:
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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The figure of fun here is the titular heroine, an ill-favored but supremely self-confident marsh nymph so convinced of her feminine charms that she sets out to land the king of the gods himself.
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She changed, and became a junker nymphomaniac.
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There are many stories about the nymphs in Roman fairy tales.
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Hesperidés autem nymphae erant quaedam fórmá praestantissimá, quae in terrá longinquá habitábant, et quibus aurea quaedam póma á Iúnóne commissa erant.
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader
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He could play a bluidy game of rugby and shag nymphs without cease.
Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
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Then did thy mother's husband take the barley for sprinkling, and began casting it upon the hearth with these words, "Ye Nymphs, who dwell among the rocks, grant that I may often sacrifice with my wife, the daughter of Tyndareus, within my halls, as happily as now, and ruin seize my foes!
Electra
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At that point Chandler's own debut, The Big Sleep, was causing some controversy with its various subplots concerning pornography and nymphomania.
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Therewith he spake to Hermes, his dear son: Hermes, forasmuch as even in all else thou art our herald, tell unto the nymph of the braided tresses my unerring counsel, even the return of the patient Odysseus, how he is to come to his home, with no furtherance of gods or of mortal men.
Book V
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She made all women look like shallow, air-headed nymphos!
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The bunga tarati or seruja (Nymphaea nelumbo) as well as several other beautiful kinds of aquatic plants are found upon the inland waters of this country.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
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The naiads, nymphs, divine, have as their progeny Sileni, who are much more like myself, I take it, than like you.
Symposium
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Auber's Manon Lescaut reworks Prévost's novel about the nymphet who hurtles to self-destruction when love comes into conflict with her yearning for the high life, which can only be purchased with her body.
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Sirens, in classical mythology sea-nymphs who by their singing lured sailors to destruction on hidden rocks.
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I selected a small gold bead mayfly nymph tied on a size 12 hook, as it was white and clearly visible in the murky water.
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The three stages of the ancestral insect species - pronymph, nymph and adult - are proposed to be equivalent to the larva, pupa and adult stages of insects with complete metamorphosis.
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Boucher's cupidons bear the family traits of their elder sisters, Boucher's nymphs and shepherdesses: a plump litheness; long-lashed wide ingenuous eyes; small light-tipped noses.
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Like many nymphalid, papilionid, and hesperiid butterflies, male H. bolina occupy and defend perching sites in forest clearings and along flight paths as a means of maximizing their encounters with receptive females.
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In insects, the general view is that juvenile hormone maintains larval and nymphal characteristics in developing insects and suppresses metamorphosis into adults.
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As originally described, Liassothrips is either a nymph or an apterous adult.
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During spring and summer more people are active outdoor, and at the same time many black-legged ticks are in a growth stage called a nymph, which is tiny and hard to see.
RutlandHerald.com
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Treatments began on 28 July, later than in the 1996 experiment because nymphal hatching was delayed (probably a result of an exceptionally cold spring).
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Goverde et al. (2002) raised larvae of the satyrid butterfly (Coenonympha pamphilus
New Content on CO2 Science
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the ancient Greeks believed that nymphs inhabited forests and bodies of water
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Yeah, she's just a really hot, big bosomed, nymphomaniac friend. Who are you trying to kid, chief?
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Remember what Nabokov said about his nymphets, that in the midst of others ‘she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious of her fantastic power.’
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Among them are a Roman bridge and a rock-hewn theatre, with nine tiers of seats and an orchestra fifty-seven feet in diameter, also a nymphaeum, an aqueduct, a large prostyle temple with portico and colonnades, and a peripteral temple preceded by a double colonnade.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Pamela Anderson hits the beach again in another skimpy bikini ... but without her mystery man actress says she was a "nymphomaniac" at ...
WN.com - Articles related to Pamela Anderson confesses cocaine abuse
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And not just the nymphal deer tick but the nymphal deer tick that was somewhat filled with human blood, in other words, it had been feeding for a couple of days or more.
CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2001
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Pitt's character, the warrior Achilles, is no longer virtually invincible because he was dipped in the River Styx by his mother, the nymph Thetis.
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There is a word for the hatred of men, just as there is one for the male counterpart to nymphomania: they are ‘misandry’ and ‘satyriasis,’ respectively.
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Somehow she stopped being my annoying nympho of a roommate, and instead became just another girl in pain.
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The golden stonefly of the Pacific Northwest and the Quill Gordon mayfly of the East both shed their nymphal husks on the bottom and swim to the surface as emergent adults.
Fishing the Dry Fly Wet
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Zeus and a sea-nymph called Dione, was the goddess of Love and Beauty.
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
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The ancient mythology here seems revived; the naiades are placed on the borders of rivers, the nymphs in woods worthy of them, the tombs beneath Elysian shades, and the statue of Esculapius in the middle of an isle, while that of Venus appears to rise out of the waters: Ovid and Virgil might walk in this enchanting spot, and still believe themselves in the Augustan age.
Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy
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Essentially, Waters equates nymphomania with zealotry, and in doing so reaffirms his historic place as the icon of trash cinema.
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Nymphal mirids are very tiny, delicate creatures which may not resemble the adults very much.
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She could have had a Court of Virgins, or gone like Artemis, buskined through the thickets, with a hundred high-girdled nymphs behind her, all for her sake locked in chastity.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
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We transferred nymphs to glass aquaria containing stream water, for rearing.
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(through whose tortured glottis the word nymphet has decisively been lifted into the linguistic mainstream from the minor Jacobean rivulets of Drayton and Drummond), whose speech is effectively spoonerized by the "tender, mysterious, impure, indifferent twilight eyes" of "Haze, Dolores" (to firmly place the child where she belongs -- in a school attendance list):
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
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Holofernes makes an "extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer," which is reminiscent of the "sweet song" delivered to the Queen by "the nymph.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
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Thetis tells the other nymphs to go home because she plans to visit Hephaestus.
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The indispensable piece remains the sheath dress, interpreted à la nymphet mode by Alessandro dell'Acqua, and dramatically by Lawrence Steele, who created a luminous second skin of metallicized grey with lunar spangles.
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She was no nymphomaniac: It is likely that Julius Caesar deflowered her.
Stacy Schiff's new biography of "Cleopatra," reviewed by Maria Arana
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The natural diet of loch trout is more varied than most care to admit and be prepared for trout taking midge, stonefly, sedge, beetles, nymphs, olives and mayfly.
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It has mats of water lily Nymphaea alba and bushes of goat willow Salix caprea, grey willow S. cinerea and purple osier S. purpurea.
Srebarna Nature Reserve, Bulgaria
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The classically educated amongst us will recognise it as an anagram of ‘Naiads’ the freshwater nymphs from Greek mythology, who dwelt in brooks and springs.
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Prettily and sexily costumed by Ms. Kurtzman in brief baby-doll tunics in a range of cerise and gray hues sparingly appliquéd with tiny roses and paired with pearlescent trunks, Mr. Morris's octet of women form a gamboling sisterhood—think classical nymphs rendered by Isadora Duncan.
Where Dancers and Patrons Meet for a Duet
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Even the sad case of the fairest of the nymphs, Echo, did not move him.
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He falls for the babysitter, Belén, a pulsating nymphette who tells of how she wants her pornstar mother's lover for her own, and it all goes downhill from there - to murder, disappearance or wishful abandonment.
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The expectorating nymph is better known as a spittlebug.
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Satryiasis is a historical term for the male counterpart of nymphomania.
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A muscular Neptune, surrounded by nymphs shaped by a not particularly dextrous hand.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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The Lady is eventually rescued by Sabrina, the nymph of the river Severn and an embodiment of chastity.
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The children's trays began to fill with mayfly nymphs, aquatic sow bugs, and the larvae of blackflies, caddis flies, and blood red midges.
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Nora and L. M. began to nibble at one another, and I thought of a nymph and satyr at play.
52449_CLARA
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According to Professor John Studd of Imperial College London, 19th-century middle-class women believed to be suffering from anything from PMT to nymphomania were routinely subject to clitoridectomies.
The race to discover Viagra for women
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How can they do so, when they want to play heroes all the time and run around trees chasing nymphets!
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Floating aquatics such as white water lily (Nymphaea odorata) are common and a submerged complex of plants is dominated by bladderwort (Utricularia spp.).
Everglades
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We think of dragonflies as aerial creatures, but they spend most of their lives - one to three years - underwater as nymphs, eating small insects and larvae.
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I'm weary of his monotone droning as he reads yet another story of yet another hapless, submissive male being dominated by yet another psychotic nympho.
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Titian preferred to paint the goddess Diana bathing in a curtained colonnade, with her entourage of nymphs and even an attendant slave girl and small dog.
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In the period of nymph stage and ecdysis peak, the control effects was better but it need highly professional technique and not suitable for guiding farmer to control the midges .
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Dressed in gauzy white tunics, they move with a girlish sweetness that identifies them as the nymphs from Nijinsky's L'Après-Midi d'un Faune.
Russell Maliphant Company
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Last year Branson unveiled a three-person submarine called the Necker Nymph, which is available for $2,500 a day for guests of his private resort in the Caribbean.
KansasCity.com: Front Page
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The plot concerns Texas Ranger Tommy Lee, who must go undercover as a cheerleading coach in order to protect five airheaded nymphets who have witnessed a murder.
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The best flies are streamers, those big creations that imitate bait fish or large nymphs.
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Thanks to it -- all thanks to it -- I did not become a nympholept.
Lore of Proserpine
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Two missiles flew out from Nymph's hull and crashed into the oncoming Wraiths, the first had been shattered into pieces while the other had merely been winged.
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In the past, other labels such as nymphomania, satyriasis, and hyper-sexuality have been used.
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Adults and deutonymphs are predaceous and often feed upon the immature stages of the species that they parasitize as larvae.
Arthropoda
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No longer did I desire conventions of little nymphets, each one wearing playboy's plastic name badge.
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And who can forget those 60s ads where merry bands of nymphomaniacs roamed the streets seeking the tell-tale oleaginous glint of a man who had just applied Brylcreem - ‘Use more only if you dare!’
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Frank at once presented his half-stiffened cock to his mother's lips, whilst Ethel, kneeling down between the maternal thighs, rolled her lascivious tongue in delight round that splendid clitoris and within the serrated nymphae which guarded the entrance to the temple of love, whilst her nose revelled amongst the beautiful chevelure of a most glorious mons Veneris, and inhaled all the sweet odours of that
The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies
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Um, I've never had sex so there's no way I can be a nympho, or whatever you said.
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Although Vindex was defeated, Nero's suicide and the support of Gaius Nymphidius Sabinus and the praetorians encouraged Galba to march on Rome, accompanied by Otho, governor of Lusitania.
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The enjoyment of water was evident in garden grottoes and nymphae structures in which fountains, cascades and pools were choreographed to create an appropriately sybaritic milieu.
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Inter auxilia multa adhibita, duo visa sunt remedium adferre, usus seri caprini cum extracto Hellebori, et irrigatio ex lacte Nympheae, violarum, &c. suturae coronali adhibita; his remediis sanitate pristinam adeptus est.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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I only want you to know how the word nymph is used, so that when you see it in reading about insects you will know what it means.
The Insect Folk
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The Banded Demoiselle only lives for a week or two as an adult, but spends most of its life as a larva (or nymph) underwater.
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The larva of the Meloidæ, before reaching the nymphal state, passes through four forms, which I call the _primary larva_, the _secondary larva_, the _pseudochrysalis_ and the _tertiary larva_.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
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There is this free date site filled with a bunch of nymphos.
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He was dressed in a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe effrayee, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings.
War and Peace
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She reminds us of those lyrical tree nymphs in Greek mythology.
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'nymphomaniac', 'prostitute', 'boozy' and so forth seemed - though stirred by the play - to be completely off the track, or nearly so.
The Sheila Variations
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Nymphs, friends, fairies and heroine all dance with the same buttery softness, whether the music is staccato, marcato, legato, forte or piano.
Ballet in London: ‘Sleeping Beauty’ at Covent Garden - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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In September, uninfected survivors (both males and females) were all adults while collaborative females typically retained a nymphal phenotype.
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He was one of the great photographic thinkers, whose mind reached ahead from still photography towards the inevitable invention of the cinema, which he anticipated by constructing a gadget called a zoopraxiscope that could animate sequences of images to display mules kicking or nymphs dancing.
Eadweard Muybridge: pioneer photographer
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The music is exactly what we should expect from this U.K. nymph - as predictable as her pixie haircut, dewy skin and familiar husky voice.
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The dryads, the flower faeries and the nymphs dwelled in various trees and plants around the forest.
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The elements were inhabited by spirits - the air by sylphs, the water by nymphs or undines, the earth by gnomes, the fire by salamanders.
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The growth stage of grasshopper nymphs can be determined by looking at the size of the individual and the length of the wing pads.
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I heard a sound of woe, a mournful wail, the voice of one crying aloud in her anguish; yea, such a cry of woe as Naiad nymph might send ringing o'er the hills, while to her cry the depths of rocky grots re-echo her screams at the violence of
Helen
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SSRIs also produce kleptomania as seen with the Ryder/Zoloft case observes Henderson, pyromania as seen in an English millionaire who burned down his own house and immolation suicides and a "strange kind" of nymphomania.
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A person fell off a cable car, claimed she became a nymphomaniac from the fall, sued the City of San Francisco and won more than a million.
People who shouldn't drive. Any real answer?
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I tied flies commercially for years, and worked into a basic hook inventory that consisted of dry fly hooks, nymph hooks, scud hooks, streamer hooks, and a few specialty hooks.
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Verses like "Trivia ride tra le ninfe eterne" ( "Trivia smiles among the eternal nymphs") have always seemed only if he remains the continuer of pseudo-existential enlightenment, the decorator of placid human sentiments, or if he does not penetrate too profoundly into the dialectic of his time, whether from political fear or simple inertia.
Salvatore Quasimodo - Nobel Lecture
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The afternoon of pond-dipping will be divided between two of Oakwell's ponds and visitors can expect to see anything from sticklebacks and frogs to diving beetles and dragonfly nymphs.
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When fishing in Swedish Lapland I have used some awesome looking stone fly nymphs which the grayling eat with relish.
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I tied flies commercially for years, and worked into a basic hook inventory that consisted of dry fly hooks, nymph hooks, scud hooks, streamer hooks, and a few specialty hooks.
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The dryads, the flower faeries and the nymphs dwelled in various trees and plants around the forest.
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Various nobodies were dressed as wood nymphs 'to add atmosphere'.
Times, Sunday Times
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One exception to Palladio's minimalist approach is the Villa Barbaro, with a nymphaeum set against the hillside behind the villa and so close to the building that it seems an open-air extension of it.
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Lastly, Hercules was not content with the loves of Omphale and Dejanira, he also loved the beautiful Hylas, who was brought up by the nymphs.
Satyricon
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It is enough to say that Hamilton represents himself as by no means an ardent nympholept, or even as flattered by demi-goddess-like advances, which are of the most obliging description; and that the lady has not only to make fuller and fuller revelations of her beauty, but at last to exert her supernatural power to some extent in order to carry the recreant into her "cool grot," not, indeed, under water, but invisibly situated on land.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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As a grasshopper nymph grows, the pads become longer and venation becomes evident.
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a year before it comes forth, and in the seeds of nymphea nelumbo the leaves of the plant were seen so distinctly that the author found out by them what plant the seeds belonged to.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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A 1926 portrait of her nymph daughter Kizette, coquettishly posed, offers the girl as a blonde lamb to the voyeur's gaze.
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Hercules left the expedition when his cup-bearer was taken by a nymph.
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Mare: - granulosa cell tumours are the most common neoplasm in the mare, and the most common indication for ovariectomy - ovary palpates 10-40 cm; unlike cow, it tends to stop growth in size at about 40 cm Clinical Signs Vary: - male-like 45% - anestrus 30% - nymphomania 25%
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When you visit the Butterfly Wing, one of the most remarkable butterflies you will see is the giant wood nymph, Idea leuconoe.
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But what was all this rapture about a snuffy brown picture called Titian, this delight in three flabby nymphs by Rubens, and so forth?
The Newcomes
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Titanasque senes louis et cunabula magni15 et sub fratre uiri nomen sine matre parentis atque iterum patrio nascentem corpore Bacchum omniaque inmenso uolitantia lumina mundo. quin etiam ruris cultus legesque notauit militiamque soli; quod collis Bacchus amaret, 20 quod fecunda Ceres campos, quod Pallas utrumque, atque arbusta uagis essent quod adultera pomis, silurumque deos sacrataque flumina nymphis, pacis opus magnos naturae condit in usus. astrorum quidam uarias dixere figuras25 signaque diffuso passim labentia caelo in proprium cuiusque genus causasque tulere:
The Theme of the Astrological Poet
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The walls were brightly frescoed with "caprices" of nymphs and loves sporting under the blue among flowers and birds.
Romola
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Not a goddess, or a nymph, or some divine entity, just a mortal woman.
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No wonder that audience had a good giggle over the lady called Platée, an ill-favored but supremely self-confident marsh nymph so convinced of her feminine charms that she sets out to land Jupiter himself.
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Larval and nymphal ticks may penetrate a coarse weave sock.
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Here Britain's ftatefmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign Tyrants, and of Nymphs at home;
The Beauties of English Poesy
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And he said nothing when still a third nurse came his way; a woman who was callid, complaisant, and nauseatingly nymphomaniac.
This Crowded Earth
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Let the lyres of joy be heard across the land, let nymphs cavort on the greensward of happiness, let angels parp their trumpets of glee, let… etc etc etc.
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The Sangha rock pool depressions support aquatic plants such as Nymphaea maculata, Najas graminea, Ottelia ulvaefolia, Cyperus sp.,
Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali
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Trout tactics, such as nymphing, swinging streamers and even dry flies, will take feisty smallmouths.
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But in an age ruled by violence/action, item numbers and nubile nymphets, what box-office potential does a philosophical film on a poet have?
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Because of this some people are inclined to view her as an oversexed and nymphomaniacal creature.
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Carmental Gate, which the Romans call anciently by that name in honour of the Nymph Carmentis, seer and soothsayer, who sang of old the coming greatness of the Aeneadae and the glory of Pallanteum.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Nymphs, or immature psylla, spend much of their time immersed in a droplet of sticky honeydew and only move out of it to prepare for the adult stage.
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The Bath of the Nymph over the bed.
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A wood nymph who was changed into a fountain by Artemis.
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From previous studies, it is clear that the nymphaeum had two stories of an aediculated façade, and we have found elaborately carved parts of its entablature and of decorated corner acroteria.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Lower Agora Report 12
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Thy languid pools where nymphs do bathe; thy bowery banks where naiads bask; thy sweet waters where at dusk the unicorn and aurochs sup.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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Justin opened the pickle bottle and did other prosaic and ungodlike acts, and Bettina laid the table on the sands like a real girl instead of a transported nymph, yet each saw the other through a golden haze which magnified the most trivial act and made it important.
Glory of Youth
