How To Use Proserpine In A Sentence
- The modern wedding breakfast, with its bridecake, is a survival from a very ancient mode of solemnizing the closest tie of all; and when Proserpine tasted a pomegranate she partook of a fruit of a specially symbolic character to signify acceptance of her new destiny as her captor's wife. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
- and finish with the exquisite close to the loss of Proserpine, the loss which cost Ceres all that pain The Study of Poetry
- Given the study name ‘Fairmount Proserpine,’ the charmer is very likely an early Bourbon rose, quite possibly the rare cultivar ‘Proserpine’ introduced in 1841.
- A new hang brings Rossetti's Proserpine out on display
- Pluto, or Hades, rules the underworld but even he was taken by the power of love and lust, for Proserpine.
- My father had visited the Barrier Reef in 1932 while investigating sugar tariffs and bounties, and a Proserpine sugar-grower had lent him a lugger and crew.
- Pluto and Proserpine; which were afterwards ornamented by the poets, and allegorized by the philosophers. Progress of Society
