How To Use Proserpine In A Sentence
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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
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and finish with the exquisite close to the loss of Proserpine, the loss
which cost Ceres all that pain
The Study of Poetry
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Given the study name ‘Fairmount Proserpine,’ the charmer is very likely an early Bourbon rose, quite possibly the rare cultivar ‘Proserpine’ introduced in 1841.
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A new hang brings Rossetti's Proserpine out on display
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Pluto, or Hades, rules the underworld but even he was taken by the power of love and lust, for Proserpine.
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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.
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Pluto and Proserpine; which were afterwards ornamented by the poets, and allegorized by the philosophers.
Progress of Society
