Sample Sentences forEuripides (auto-selected)
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Euripides.† (source)
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This August in Gravesend—where I try to visit every August—Dan's students in the summer school were struggling with Euripides; I told Dan that I thought he'd made an odd and merciless choice.† (source)
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This is where the great tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were performed during the time of Socrates.† (source)
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"How do we know," Guariglia whispered, with ice-cold water dripping from his mustache, "that he won't shoot us in the pool, like Euripides?"† (source)
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It was Euripides, this Greek writer from the fifth century BC.† (source)
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'I can't help thinking of the Hippolytus of Euripides, where the early licentiousness of Theseus is probably responsible for the asceticism of the son that helps bring about the tragedy that ruins them all.† (source)
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Euripides.† (source)
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Among the more eminent Bluecoat boys are Joshua Barnes, editor of Anacreon and Euripides; Jeremiah Markland, the eminent critic, particularly in Greek Literature; Camden, the antiquary; Bishop Stillingfleet; Samuel Richardson, the novelist; Thomas Mitchell, the translator of Aristophanes; Thomas Barnes, many years editor of the London Times; Coleridge, Charles Lamb, and Leigh Hunt.† (source)
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He was reading Euripides, and all around him a world of white and black was eating fried food.† (source)
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It would be better to breed horses and live in one of those red villas than to run in and out of the skulls of Sophocles and Euripides like a maggot, with a high-minded wife, one of those University women.† (source)
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The fishwoman of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer.† (source)
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As Euripides says, one man's meat is another man's poison morally as well as physically.† (source)
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And so, forsooth, the youth are said to be taught them by Socrates, when there are not unfrequently exhibitions of them at the theatre (Probably in allusion to Aristophanes who caricatured, and to Euripides who borrowed the notions of Anaxagoras, as well as to other dramatic poets.)† (source)
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Left alone in the great house, father shut in his study at the top, Lizzie polishing brass stair rods, another maid doing bedrooms, Shag asleep on his mat, while Sophie, I suppose, stood at the back door taking in joints, milk, vegetables from tradespeople in their little carts, I mounted to my room; spread my Liddell and Scott upon the table, and settled down to read Plato, or to make out some scene in Euripides or Sophocles for Clara Pater, or Janet Case.† (source)
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But I cannot admit that the class represented by Eschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euripides, Shakespear, Goethe, Ibsen, and Tolstoy, not to mention our own contemporary playwrights, is as much in place in Mr Redford's office as a pickpocket is in Bow Street.† (source)
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Suddenly, it was strange to him that he should read Euripides there in the wilderness.† (source)
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