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Helen of Troy
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    Like Helen of Troy, she explained: also it sounded like Hailan, her real name, Sea Blue.†  (source)
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    Bad poetry, but even Helen of Troy probably started with, like, a limerick, right?†  (source)
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    Helen of Troy, one thousand pounds!†  (source)
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    What she said to a four-year-old about Helen of Troy: "A feisty woman who screwed things up."†  (source)
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    She didn't look much like Helen of Troy: despite all the work she'd done in advance, she was flustered, and in a foul temper; she was sweating, and her hair was coming down.†  (source)
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    This is the guiding power that runs through the work of Dante in the female figures of Beatrice and the Virgin, and appears in Goethe's Faust successively as Gretchen, Helen of Troy, and the Virgin.†  (source)
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    It didn't look very special, just a triangular blade with an unadorned hilt, but it had once been owned by Helen of Troy.†  (source)
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    And Helen of Troy was just a woman.†  (source)
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    I found it difficult to picture Helen of Troy in an apron, with her sleeves rolled up to the elbow and her cheek dabbled with flour; and from what I knew about Circe and Medea, the only things they'd ever cooked up were magic potions, for poisoning heirs apparent or changing men into pigs.†  (source)
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    She sheathed Katoptris, wondering how Helen of Troy had stayed sane during the Trojan War, if this blade had been her only source of news.†  (source)
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    Helen of Troy, whatever your true name may be—And I had known it ....aha I had let it slip away.†  (source)
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    She reached down and closed her hand around the hilt of the dagger Annabeth had given her—Katoptris, Helen of Troy's weapon.†  (source)
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    But somewhere is Helen of Troy and all her many sisters and there is still noble work to be done.†  (source)
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