111 adjectives to describe goddesses

Her looks were flushed, and sullen was her mien, That sure the virgin goddess (had she been Aught but a virgin) must the guilt have seen. 'Tis said the nymphs saw all, and guessed aright:

Timoleon, a man prosperous in all his undertakings, was wont to ascribe his successes to good-luck; but that he did not mean to give credit to any blind Goddess of Fortune is evident from his having built an altar to a certain divine something which he called Automatia, signifying Spontaneousness, or a happy promptitude in following the dictates of his own genius.

She was in many tribes personified as the principal object of worship, prayer and adoration, in the tutelary goddess of the tribe.

It was one in which the worshippers of Fortune planked down the last acre of their patrimonial estates to propitiate the fickle goddess in the allurements of the gaming-table.

Rather thy reedy brook Taw's tributary At midnight murmuring, Descried them, the delicate Dark-eyed goddesses, There by his cressy bed Dissolved and dreaming Dreams that distilled into dew All the purple of night, All the shine of a planet.

And, over all, the moon rose high, and higher, in solemn majesty, filling the world with her pale loveliness, and brooding over it like the gentle goddess she is.

I shall be fortunate if some capricious goddess does not make me forget one and the other, and if I escape from this new and dangerous captivity.

She flushed indignantly and glared in silence with the eyes of an angry young goddess.

The unknown goddess, a novel.

Before his eyes, as swiftly, as unaccountably, as utterly as an April day shifts its moods, she had changed from radiant, rosy wood-goddess to saddened mortal and thence on into tricksy, laughing elf.

Their muslin slips outlined their strong bodies, so that they were like veiled goddesses, their brownblack hair floating free, as they leaped or fought and tumbled with the tide.

The seventeenth century is only womansee the tapestries, the delightful goddesses who have discarded their hoops and heels to appear in still more delightful nakedness, the noble woods, the tall castles, with the hunters looking round; no servile archaeology chills the fancy, it is but a delightful whim; and this treatment of antiquity is the highest proof of the genius of the seventeenth century.

The itinerant goddess of the principal towns in the department de la Somme was the mistress of one Taillefer, a republican General, brother to the Deputy of the same name.

To the known and unknown god I loud do sigh, To the known and unknown goddess I loud do sigh, O lord, look on me, hear my prayer, O goddess, look on me, hear my prayer.

R674790. Venus, the lonely goddess.

(Pub. abroad as The wistful goddess, in Windsor magazine Aug. 1936)

The serene and beneficent goddess Truth, like other deities whose disposition has been too hastily inferred from that of the men who have invoked them, can hardly be well pleased with much of the worship paid to her even in this milder age, when the stake and the rack have ceased to form part of her ritual.

Then, O king, should one repair to the sacred goddess Saraswati, known there as the goddess Plaksha, that best of streams and foremost of rivers.

Most gracious goddess, more than mortal wight Your heavenly hue of right imports no less Most glad am I, in that it was my chance To undertake this enterprise in hand, Which doth so greatly glad your princely mind.

Wagner gave her the pet name of "Sieglinde," and told her that she should illumine his Walhalla as Freia, the eternal, blue-eyed, gold-haired goddess of spring.

No; hell record I call, And thou, stern goddess of revenging wrongs, Witness with me, I die for his pure love.

A word, the root-meaning of which was neither more nor less than a certain heathen goddess, or goddessesthe inspirer of beauty in art, the impersonation of all that is pure, charming, winning, bountifulin one word, of all that is graceful and gracious in the human character.

First we came to a small temple, ugly enough, but interesting, for here a goat is sacrificed every morning to Kalia particularly hideous goddess, if the frescoes on the walls and the golden image in the sanctuary are in any way truthful!

'Tis a sweet goddess.

But for a man to have been present at them was a sacrilege hitherto unheard of, and which was held to lay the whole city under the just wrath of the offended goddess.

111 adjectives to describe  goddesses