349 examples of phoenix in sentences

What was the cause of her inexplicable disappearance into the gloomy forest while we had slept? I returned to the hotel where I had stayed on my arrival, a comfortable place called the Phoenix, and lunched there alone.

The phoenix builds her spicy nest, For unto you at last she flies, And in your fragrant bosom dies.

There is one sort of propositions concerning the existence of anything answerable to such an idea: as having the idea of an elephant, phoenix, motion, or an angel, in my mind, the first and natural inquiry is, Whether such a thing does anywhere exist?

But as in story, where we wonders view, As there were flames, there was a Phoenix too; An excellence from the burnt pile did rise, That still aton'd for past calamities; So my prophetic genius in its height, Viewing your merit, Sir, foretels your fate.

Andreas and Phoenix.

" Cynewulf is also the probable author of the Phoenix, which is in part an adaptation of an old Latin poem.

The Phoenix is the only Saxon poem that gives us the rich scenery of the South, in place of the stern northern landscape.

This passage from the Phoenix shows how repetition emphasizes the absence of disagreeable things: "...there may neither snow nor rain, Nor the furious air of frost, nor the flare of fire, Nor the headlong squall of hail, nor the hoar frost's fall, Nor the burning of the sun, nor the bitter cold, Nor the weather over-warm, nor the winter shower, Do their wrong to any wight.

For selections from the Phoenix, see P & S, 54-65; C.& T., 143-163.

What is especially noticeable about the Andreas and the Phoenix? General Characteristics of the Verse.

And I know of no modern movement to which the words of Carlyle, when he was an optimist, when he wrote the most original and profound of his works, the "Sartor Resartus," apply with more force: "When the Phoenix is fanning her funeral pyre, will there not be sparks flying?

In the burning of the world-Phoenix, destruction and creation proceed together; and as the ashes of the old are blown about do new forces mysteriously spin themselves, and melodious death-songs are succeeded by more melodious birth-songs.

The appetite was regarded as a holy vestal flame, soaring upwards towards dinner throughout the day: if undebauched, it tended to its natural consummation in coena: expired like a phoenix, to rise again out of its own ashes.

It is a rara avis; almost as rare, indeed, as the phoenix, which appears only once in five hundred years.

Sheridan adding afterwards a condition that he wanted an address without a Phoenix in it.

The building-committee having advertised for a prize prologue Samuel Whitbread sent in his own attempt, in which, as probably in a hundred others, the new theatre was compared to a Phoenix rising out of the ashes of the old one.

Sheridan said Whitbread's description of a Phoenix was excellent, for it was quite a poulterer's description.

She is nulli secunda, a rare creature, a phoenix, the sole commandress of his thoughts, queen of his desires, his only delight: as [5400]Triton now feelingly sings, that lovesick sea-god: "Candida Leucothoe placet,

[5409] "Cui comparatus indecens erit pavo, Inamabilis sciurus, et frequens Phoenix.

" "To whom conferr'd a peacock's indecent, A squirrel's harsh, a phoenix too frequent.

"He goes to Phoenix a good deal.

Plutarch tells us, that Alexander in his Youth had a Master named Lysimachus, who, tho he was a Man destitute of all Politeness, ingratiated himself both with Philip and his Pupil, and became the second Man at Court, by calling the King Peleus, the Prince Achilles, and himself Phoenix.

From the ashes of a sparrow the phoenix shall not rise.

"You are a phoenix of a traveling companion, you young thing!"

Grant thou that I may sail down to Tattu like a living soul, and up to Abtu like the phoenix; and grant that I may enter in and come forth from the pylons of the lands of the underworld without let or hindrance.

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