1606 examples of venus in sentences

Complexion like the winter snow, Just tinted by the sunset glow, Throat white as alabaster, Teeth of pearl, and hair of gold, And figuresure in Venus's mould Th' immortal gods have east her.

Here the charm'd BYSSUS with his blooming bride Spreads his green sails, and braves the foaming tide; The star of Venus gilds the twilight wave, 440 And lights her votaries to the secret cave; Light Cupids flutter round the nuptial bed, And each coy sea-maid hides her blushing head.

Thus where pleased VENUS, in the southern main, Sheds all her smiles on Otaheite's plain, 485 Wide o'er the isle her silken net she draws, And the Loves laugh at all, but Nature's laws.

Phr. affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffer'd it will set the heart on fire [Venus and Adonis].

[Fr.], style. Venus, Aphrodite^, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo^, Hyperion, Adonis^, Antionous^, Narcissus.

[Paradise Lost]; the sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none [Venus and Adonis]; ubi mel ibi apes [Lat.].

Cupid, Venus; myrtle; true lover's knot; love token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story; the, old story, plighted love; courtship &c 902; amourette^; free love.

In beginning his study of the solar system, the pupil is told: The first three planetsMercury, Venus, and the moonare dead and disintegrating.

The proof of this is found in the fact, that they have no axial rotation, Mercury and Venus always presenting the same surface to their father, the sun, and the moon the same surface to its daughter, the earth.

, 5m., 30.5s., and Venus once in 23h., 21m., 22s.

He would as soon credit a statement that the earth has no axial rotation as that Mercury or Venus has none; and if he continues his study of Eastern physics it is with no confidence in its accuracy, and as a matter of curiosity.

The statement that Mercury, Venus, and the moon "are dead and disintegrating," the former two "always presenting the same surface" to the sun, is the basis for an elaborate superstructure, both in the physics and the metaphysics of the East.

There will not be a work on astronomy published in Europe or the United States this year, or hereafter, that will not state that "Mercury and Venus revolve on their axes in the same time that they revolve around the sun," which is another way of saying that "they have no axial rotation, always presenting the same face to the sun," and an inaccurate way of presenting the truth.

It was the "absolute accuracy" of modern astronomers in regard to the length of the day on Mercury or Venus, which the astronomers declared had been corrected down to the fraction of a second, that made it impossible for him to accept the Eastern physics when the latter squarely contradicted his own.

Virtuous women should keep house; and 'twas well performed and ordered by the Greeks, "mulier ne qua in publicum Spectandam se sine arbitro praebeat viro:" which made Phidias belike at Elis paint Venus treading on a tortoise, a symbol of women's silence and housekeeping.

" St. Christopher, and a company of fictitious saints, Venus to the Lady of Loretto.

Juno's image and that of [6380]Fortune spake, Castor and Pollux fought in person for the Romans against Hannibal's army, as Pallas, Mars, Juno, Venus, for Greeks and Trojans, &c. Amongst our pseudo-Catholics nothing so familiar as such miracles; how many cures done by our lady of Loretto, at Sichem! of old at our St. Thomas's shrine, &c. St. Sabine was seen to fight for Arnulphus, duke of Spoleto.

The matrons of Rome, as Dionysius Halicarnassaeus relates, because at their entreaty Coriolanus desisted from his wars, consecrated a church Fortunes muliebri; and Venus Barbata had a temple erected, for that somewhat was amiss about hair, and so the rest.

Every god almost had a peculiar sacrificethe Sun horses, Vulcan fire, Diana a white hart, Venus a turtle, Ceres a hog, Proserpine a black lamb, Neptune a bull (read more in Stuckius at large), besides sheep, cocks, corals, frankincense, to their undoings, as if their gods were affected with blood or smoke.

[Footnote 52: Venus Cloacina (she who cleanses).D.O.]

Meanwhile Quintus Fabius Maximus and Titus Otacilius Crassus were created duumvirs for dedicating temples, Otacilius to Mens, Fabius to Venus Erycina.

The Venus de Milo looked across to the David of Michael Angelo; the Flying Victory across to Rodin's Thinker.

The apotheosis of Quetzalcoatl from the embers of his funeral pyre to the planet Venus has led several distinguished students of Mexican mythology to identify his whole history with the astronomical relations of this bright star.

We can readily see that the relation of Venus to the sun, and the evening and morning twilights, suggested the pleasing tale that as the light dies in the west, it is, in a certain way, preserved by the star which hangs so bright above the horizon.

R80049, 21Jun51, Violet Evelyn McNeile (W) MACORLAN, PIERRE. La Venus internationale.

1606 examples of  venus  in sentences