How To Use Grecian In A Sentence
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Grecian; they had laughing eyes their figures were models for an artist with — “Turgide, brune, e ritondette mamme.” like the ‘bending statue’ that delights the world.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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I have a chapter on Shakespeare and Macbeth; there's the chapter about Ancient Greece, a chapter about Delphi and sibyls in Grecian-Roman times.
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Landscape, on the other hand, illustrated nothing, represented no important event deserving of record, and was thus totally without significance in a Grecian temple or pinacotheca.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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The nine Muses called Pierides in Grecian Mythology were the daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne (Memory), supposed to preside over the liberal
A History of Pantomime
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The plane is a Grecian ovolo with bead and is designed to cut a one-inch wide profile in half-inch thick stock.
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(For those that are Christians among them, as namely the Russians, Grecians, and Alanians, who keep their own law very strictly, wil in no case drinke thereof, yea, they accompt themselues no Christians after they haue once drunke of it, and their priests reconcile them vnto the Church as if they had renounced the Christian faith.)
The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
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I was wearing a blazing orange floor-length Grecian tunic, with pleating as fine as Fortuny silk.
RESCUING ROSE
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The chief divisions of the kingdom are Northern Greece, or Hellas, lying north of the Gulf of Lepanto; the peninsula of the Morea, connected with the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth; and various islands scattered over the greater part of the Grecian Archipelago.
A Geography for Beginners.
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The populace had grown so hardened to artists that gruff-voiced lesbians in corduroy breeches and young men in Grecian or medieval costume could walk the streets without attracting a glance, and along the Seine banks Notre Dame it was almost impossible to pick ones way between the sketching-stools.
Inside the Whale
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One of the most unusual-looking fall-planted bulbs is the Grecian windflower.
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But, up the marble steps, beyond the Grecian pillars and inside the iron-studded olive-wood doors, the place was a prison.
KARA KUSH
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The only thing missing was the Gipper's slicked back do, all Grecian formula and hair oil.
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The author was well acquainted with classical drama, as may be seen in his use of stichomythia, amongst other things, and possibly in his preference for a Grecian story.
The Growth of English Drama
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Her copious rich brown hair was worn in Grecian bandeaux round her head, displaying as much as possible of her forehead and cheeks.
Barchester Towers
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The Grecian statue of an athlete in the corner was of museum quality.
KARA KUSH
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It is pretty bad that a once youthful cop bar now offers services such as denture cleaning, a Depends Underwear Diapers vending machine, retired police badge cleaning services, free Dr. Schol's shoe pads on Tuesdays, Grecian 44 hair dye Thrusday, mixed drinks that contain Red Bull & Geritol mixers and free valet parking for men with walkers.
Second City Cop
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Her features are as regular and delicate as those of a Grecian statue, and her hair of a rich old mahogany color that I suppose an artist would call Titian red.
The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865,
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_, Tunis, Algiers, Fez and Morocco, or what we now call the Barbary States) had been occupied by Grecians nearly seven hundred years before Christ.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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Amy slept with a patent clothespin pinching it, she couldn't attain the Grecian effect she so much desired.
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The Madonna is neighbored by several paintings, if the kind called Grecian for a reason never revealed by the inventor of an art as old as potichomanie itself.
Suburban Sketches
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He sent for all the boys of noblest parentage out of all their tribes, and placed them in the great city of Osca, where he appointed masters to instruct them in the Grecian and
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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An Interpretation of'silence " in Keat's Poem " Old on a Grecian Urn
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[Footnote: These statements illustrate the gyneocracy and mother-right among the ancient Grecian tribes discussed by Bachofen in "Das Mutterrecht.
Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
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You have Grecian monuments, if anything so misplaced can be called Grecian, imbedded against and cutting into Gothic pillars; the doors shut for the greater part of the day; only a little bit of the building used: beadledom predominant; the clink of money here and there; white-wash in vigour; the singing indifferent; the sermons not indifferent but bad; and some visitors from London forming, perhaps, the most important part of the audience; in fact, the thing having become a show.
Friends in Council — First Series
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An octagon tower surrounds the rotunda, which is ornamented with Grecian cornices, etc., and its dome is decorated at top with a similar ornament to that of the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, commonly called the Lanthorn of Demosthenes.
A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913
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But again Terry called heads, and again the coin chimed, steadied, and showed the Grecian goddess.
Black Jack
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It was designed along Grecian lines with a high empire waist, and silver lace trim.
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But to me, be assured, thou neither appearest for my sake, nor for the sake of the Grecians, to have killed this man thy guest, but that thou mightest possess the gold in thy palace.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
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The rocking-horse's nose couldn't turn up, it was the purest Grecian, modelled from the Elgin marbles.
The Brownies and Other Tales
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This was the history of the hoop skirt and the Grecian bend, and has been that of most of the extremes which have marked the past, and we can readily believe that in no other way could womanhood have been insnared by such supreme and criminal folly as has characterized fashion's caprices in unnumbered instances.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891
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Formosior auri massa, as [4513] he well observed, the mass of gold is fairer than all your Grecian pictures, that Apelles,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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This makes flats a dressier option and workable in the evening with a long gown or party dress, while thongs are now beaded, metallic, diamanté or - in a nod to the Grecian look - a simple gladiator style.
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For the Trojans, headed by Hector or some other of their chiefs, often came out from the city through the principal gate, called the Scæʹan Gate, which faced the Grecian camp, and fought the enemy in the open plain, on the bank of the celebrated river Simois.
The Story of Troy
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In the mean time, the Grecian army receives loss on loss, and is half destroyd by a pestilence into the bargain: Quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.
Dedication
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As soon as I arrived in a city I announced, by means of bills, that a Grecian physician was there, who had already cured many; and, truly, my balsam, and my medicines, had brought me in many a zechin.
The Oriental Story Book A Collection of Tales
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For the maner is not emong them, as it is emong the Grecians, that one manne, or one woman, shoulde attende vpon the sacrifices and Ceremonies alone: but thei are many at ones aboute the honour of their Goddes, and teache the same ordre to their children.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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The most ample refreshments, both in the Oriental and after the European fashion, were spread before the royal and princely guests of Saladin, each in their own separate pavilion; and so attentive was the Soldan to the habits and taste of his visitors, that Grecian slaves were stationed to present them with the goblet, which is the abomination of the sect of Mohammed.
The Talisman
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Which, judging by the copious accounts of her doings, she was, but Gladys was also a vain perfectionist, obsessed with the “kink” in her nose that kept her from possessing a perfect Grecian profile – an obsession that led to the ruination of her beauty before she was yet forty.
An Aristocratic Ménage: Consuelo, Sunny and Gladys | Edwardian Promenade
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An ornamental Grecian brazier, or urn, is back in place on top of a 100 ft high column at Castle Howard.
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[226] Add to this, what I have before taken notice of, the great absurdity of making the Grecian Argo the first ship which sailed upon the seas: Illa rudem cursu prima imbuit Amphitriten: when the poet, at the same instant, is describing Theseus, previous to the Argo, _in a ship_, and attended with
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
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And I should like them, if I believed they would make the Grecian women something _better_ than mere domestic slaves," said Philothea; "but such as Aspasia will never raise women out of the bondage in which they are placed by the impurity and selfishness of man.
Philothea A Grecian Romance
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The rider wore a gilded Grecian helmet that was crested with black and red wool and plumed with a white tuft.
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In a photograph taken of me on my tenth birthday — that, by simple calculation, had to be in the year 1955, in the time of Eisenhower — I, David Hanna Shaw, am standing alone on the summit of the Acropolis against the whiteness of the ruined Parthenon and the dazzling blue of Grecian sky, garbed in a flawless replica of the evzone military regalia.
The Luxembourg Run
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The walls were hung with old theatre posters Mr. Garrick, Mr.. Woffington, Mr.. Siddons - Richard III: The Constant Couple; The Grecian Daughter, in cheap black print on old, creased paper, mounted on red board under glass in Hogarth frames.
Bottled Spider
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“And I should like them, if I believed they would make the Grecian women something better than mere domestic slaves,” said Philothea; “but such as Aspasia will never raise women out of the bondage in which they are placed by the impurity and selfishness of man.
Philothea
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The Grecians were held to a goal-less draw by visiting Forest Green in front of a bumper Bank Holiday crowd just shy of 5,000.
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After the arriuall of the which succour, the fortification of the City went more diligently forward of all hands, then it did before, the whole garison, the Grecian Citizens inhabiting the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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A welcoming fire filled the great fireplace, restored Grecian gasoliers hung overhead, and the acoustic-friendly gallery was soon filled with my technically-imperfect Schumann.
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It is indisputable, that persons had not their sins washed away in these mysteries, but by virtue of their oath to become virtuous: the hierophant in all the Grecian mysteries, when dismissing the assembly, pronounced the two Egyptian words, “Koth, ompheth,” “watch, be pure”; which at once proves that the mysteries came originally from Egypt, and that they were invented solely for the purpose of making mankind better.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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His object was, to investigate the causes of this Grecian superiority; or, if _investigate_ is too pompous a word for so slight a discussion, more properly, he inquired for the cause as something that must naturally lie upon the surface.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
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ln the distance was a large, white mansion with Grecian columns.
THE TRAIL OF TERROR (THE THREE INVESTIGATORS MYSTERIES NO 39)
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Presently he set apart five damsels, amongst whom was the King s daughter, and sent them to thy father, King Omar bin al-Nu'uman, together with other gifts, such as broadcloth [FN#208] and woollen stuffs and Grecian silks.
Arabian nights. English
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The first and lowest were the Dicteriads, so called from Diete (Crete), who imitated Pasiphaë, wife of Minos, in preferring a bull to a husband; above them was the middle class, the Aleutridæ, who were the Almahs or professional musicians, and the aristocracy was represented by the Hetairai, whose wit and learning enabled them to adorn more than one page of Grecian history.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Leaping copper flames, which have been gilded to reflect the sun's light with a fiery glow, crown the impressive structure, resting on a ten-foot Grecian tripod at the top of the column.
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The plane is a Grecian ovolo with bead and is designed to cut a one-inch wide profile in half-inch thick stock.
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Watch for the Grecian dresses and Empire line dresses with a new grunge feeling.
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Here is another link -- José de Herédia, and his jewelled and chiselled sonnets -- the "Antique Medal" with its peerless sestette, which combines the essential meanings of Keats's "Ode to a Grecian Urn.
Confessions of a Book-Lover
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The _xystus_, or garden, adjoining the house had been laid out like a Grecian landscape with cypresses and laurels between squares of roses and violets.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
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She wore a Grecian-style gown made from clingy white fabric.
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It's the Grecian crop that we typically find in pizzerias and Italian eateries here in the states, as they tend to be more sweet than those grown in Italy.
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Lord Paulyn insisted upon playing bezique in a remote corner with Elizabeth, leaving Diana and Hilda to languish in solitude on one of the Grecian couches.
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Grecian flute, as in the lay of the strife of Apollo and Marsyas, comes more tunably in the echo of Mr. Arnold's song, that beautiful song in
Letters on Literature
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Under the purview of hair and makeup designer Jenny Shircore, most of the actors, if not covered in prosthetics, had to be spray-tanned regularly to maintain their golden, Grecian appearance.
41 High Resolution Photos from Clash of the Titans | /Film
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To Mr. Johnson, of course, a 237-word disquisition on a Grecian formula for solvency is tantamount to "War and Peace.
The Soul of Brevity
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Grecian hierophant, Calchas, the moment of your just punishment has returned again; the hour of vengeance has arrived — the bell has sounded! the druid and calchas.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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'Whom, when we sporting gentlemen are absent, you call blacklegs, rooks, Grecians, and other pleasant epithets.
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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Substituting Herculean for Sisyphean will result in the correct Grecian adjective.
Matthew Yglesias » Centrally Planned Suburbia
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At Famagusta on the south coast, where sunny sandy beaches abound, is the newly erected Grecian Hotel, considered to be very fine.
Cyprus1966!
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I tried to imagine what the women of Ephesus wore: Grecian chitons, himations, and peplos, most likely.
Holly Would Dream
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a Grecian robe
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For there was, as it follows afterward, Grecian hyssop: fucous hyssop, perhaps of the colour of blacklead: Roman hyssop, and wild hyssop.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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The latter are discouraged by the misfortune of Warna] 25 Warna, under the Grecian name of Odessus, was a colony of the Milesians, which they denominated from the hero Ulysses, (Cellarius, tom.i. p. 374.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Her Grecian style gown was made entirely of scarlet silk and chiffon which gave the illusion of translucency.
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Grecian custom of hollowing out a hill-side and of facing the open cutting with a structure of masonry: which completed the tiers of seats cut in the living rock; provided in its main body the postscenium, and in its wings the dressing-rooms; and, rising in front to a level with the colonnade which crowned and surrounded the auditorium, made at once the outer façade and the rear wall of the stage. [
The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals
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[5] Singular it is, and not generally known, that Grecian women accompanied the _anabasis_ of the younger Cyrus and the subsequent retreat of the Ten Thousand.
De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars
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Cyclops the Whip-bearer, until I observed that his skill made whips useless, except to fetch off an impertinent fly from a leader's head, upon which I changed his Grecian name to _Cyclops Diphrelates_
The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc
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Chus was the son of Ham; and though the names of the Grecian Deities are not uniformly appropriated, yet Ham is generally looked upon as Ἑλιος, the Sun; and had the title Dis, and Dios: hence the city of Amon in Egypt was rendered Diospolis.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
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Philosophical Arrangements of Mr. James Harris, (London, 1775, in octavo,) who labored to revive the studies of Grecian literature and philosophy.] 60 Abulpharagius, Dynast.p. 81, 222.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The astonishment at Exeter's temerity to claim the lead had barely subsided when the Grecians doubled their advantage.
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The above is made clear in all the great theogonies, principally in the Grecian.
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Another said, ‘It is far from a good design - the elevation shows columns, architraves, a pediment as though it were a stone building in the Grecian style - instead being but wood.’
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But we speak now separately of human testimony, according to which — that which the Grecians call apotheosis, and the Latins relatio inter divos — was the supreme honour which man could attribute unto man, specially when it was given, not by a formal decree or act of state (as it was used among the Roman Emperors), but by an inward assent and belief.
The Advancement of Learning
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The architecture of the museum shared many of the same features—massive stonework, statues that were strikingly similar to the lovely caryatids and other sculptured figures created by the masterful Grecian artists, columns topped by Ionic capitals, and acroteria—the elaborately carved figures adorning the corners and tops of pediments.
Highborn
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If an architect examined a Gothic structure by reference to Grecian rules, he would find it a mass of deformities.
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The "bad" bonnet must sink the large souled Grecian to a cinder-wench, make the Frenchwoman a trapes from the Palais Royal, our fair astronomer a gipsy of Greenwich Park, and the fate-foretelling sybil
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841
