Sapphoin a sentence
- Now consider trying to write a lyric poem, with everyone from Sappho to Tennyson to Frost to Plath to Verlaine to Li Po looking over your shoulder.† (source)
- I had only met her briefly during my orientation week, but I remembered her name was Sappho.† (source)
- Rose winked and slipped me her personal copy of Sappho Leap.† (source)
- From the Greek Sappho, a lady poet who enjoyed the love of other women.† (source)
- Sappho.† (source)
- I think I'm beginning to look down on all poets except Sappho.† (source)
- Sappho Brown rode through Creole Place and saw the mulattoes hanging lanterns and crepe paper up in the trees.† (source)
- He was tempted to quote her Sappho; but that was for Kathleen.† (source)
- Sappho was born on the island of Lesbos (from which the word lesbian is derived).
- Usually about this time of day I come by and give Sappho a break.† (source)
- I heard Sappho come back in and take over checking out Aphrodite's books from Loren.† (source)
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- Sappho said he was already passing Joe Sipp horse when Claudee hollered at him to untie the horse.† (source)
- Sappho said he thought to himself: "Just don't lose time and expect company, brother.† (source)
- Sappho and them right over there; Claudee and them little farther down.† (source)
- Jean went up to Sappho and looked at him a while, then he went up to Claudee.† (source)
- The horse got here before Sappho and Claudee did.† (source)
- They untied the horse Sappho and Claudee had left and headed him toward Samson.† (source)
- Both Sappho and Claudee's daddy was white, but not Creole white.† (source)
- But telling this to Sappho and Claudee was like talking to a block of wood.† (source)
- Come to us, O daughters of Sappho.† (source)
- Uh, she wasn't the real Sappho—that vampyre poet had died like a thousand years ago—right now we were studying her work in Lit class.† (source)
- Nala doesn't really like anyone except me:' Sappho, a tiny dark-haired vamp whose tattoos were elaborate symbols Damien had told me were Greek alphabet glyphs, smiled fondly at Nala.† (source)
- No, Sappho, but thank you.† (source)
- He looked at Claudee longer, and everybody, even Sappho, was getting the feeling that maybe he did know Claudee.† (source)
- Behind them the mulattoes had got on their own horses, and Sappho and Claudee could hear them hollering and shooting pistols in the air.† (source)
- She told me that some of her own people was in this, and she knowed they would have lynched Sappho and Claudee if they had caught them.† (source)
- Sappho said he started to tell Claudee to please shut his mouth and let's get out of here while they was still able to, but, no, now he know Jean.† (source)
- Sappho said he was running before the tall mulatto mentioned the plow lines, he just started running faster when he heard it.† (source)
- Sappho said before he could say we don't know nobody here, we just stumbled in, we don't mean no harm, and we don't mind leaving —Claudee said: "Jacques.† (source)
- Sappho said even before Claudee said field he was already heading that way, he just picked up more speed now because he knowed Claudee was following him.† (source)
- Lena Washington was his aunt, his great aunt, his mama's daddy sister; and it was Lena who sent Sappho up the quarters to get me because it wasn't time to go get Selina from Morgan.† (source)
- Now Sappho and Claudee white as any white man in this parish, but they knowed good and God well they didn't have no business going there messing round with them Creoles.† (source)
- Moreover, if you consider any great figure of the past, like Sappho, like the Lady Murasaki, like Emily Brontë, you will find that she is an inheritor as well as an originator, and has come into existence because women have come to have the habit of writing naturally; so that even as a prelude to poetry such activity on your part would be invaluable.† (source)
- In the dialect of Blodgett College but with the voice of Sappho was Carol's answer: "Of course.† (source)
- Liza was as soft and enervated as Sappho was smart and abrupt.† (source)
- Sappho smoking a cigarette went off into the garden with the two young men.† (source)
- Sappho Shtoltz was a blonde beauty with black eyes.† (source)
- Sappho says they did enjoy themselves tremendously at your house last night.† (source)
- He addressed Sappho: "You've lost your bet.† (source)
- Alphonse Daudet had come also, and he had given her a copy of Sappho: he had promised to write her name in it, but she had forgotten to remind him.† (source)
- Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-venders; thus the captains to Zenobia; and in the damp cave over gnawed bones the hairy suitor thus protested to the woman advocate of matriarchy.† (source)
- A Madame Sappho would have called him a pig; a Shakespeare would have said " my merry child;" old, drinking Caryoe thought him a clever, successful business man.† (source)
- —SAPPHO (H. T. Wharton).† (source)
- Or why should a woman liken herself to any historical woman, and think, because Sappho,[359] or Sévigné,[360] or De Staël,[361] or the cloistered souls who have had genius and cultivation, do not satisfy the imagination and the serene Themis,[362] none can,—certainly not she.† (source)
- A profile was visible against the dull monochrome of cloud around her; and it was as though side shadows from the features of Sappho and Mrs. Siddons had converged upwards from the tomb to form an image like neither but suggesting both.† (source)
- For he was not one of those gentlemen who languish after the unattainable Sappho's apple that laughs from the topmost bough—the charms which "Smile like the knot of cowslips on the cliff, Not to be come at by the willing hand."† (source)
- Not one of these glances, nor one sigh, was lost on her; they might have been said to fall on the shield of Minerva, which some philosophers assert protected sometimes the breast of Sappho.† (source)
- And they took it to themselves, so I made haste to repeat another, very sarcastic, well known to all educated people: Yes, Sappho and Phaon are we!† (source)
- Sappho Shtoltz you don't know?† (source)
- Sappho laughed still more festively.† (source)
- The unexpected young visitor, whom Sappho had invited, and whom she had forgotten, was, however, a personage of such consequence that, in spite of his youth, both the ladies rose on his entrance.† (source)
- He walked after Sappho into the drawing-room, and followed her about as though he were chained to her, keeping his sparkling eyes fixed on her as though he wanted to eat her.† (source)
- He was a new admirer of Sappho's.† (source)
- It is true that her tone was the same as Sappho's; that like Sappho, she had two men, one young and one old, tacked onto her, and devouring her with their eyes.† (source)
- They heard the sound of steps and a man's voice, then a woman's voice and laughter, and immediately thereafter there walked in the expected guests: Sappho Shtoltz, and a young man beaming with excess of health, the so-called Vaska.† (source)
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