Sample Sentences forSappho (auto-selected)
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He was tempted to quote her Sappho; but that was for Kathleen.† (source)
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I think I'm beginning to look down on all poets except Sappho.† (source)
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Both Sappho and Claudee's daddy was white, but not Creole white.† (source)
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Sappho.† (source)
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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)
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I had only met her briefly during my orientation week, but I remembered her name was Sappho.† (source)
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Ms. Rose winked and slipped me her personal copy of Sappho Leap.† (source)
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From the Greek Sappho, a lady poet who enjoyed the love of other women.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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Sappho says they did enjoy themselves tremendously at your house last night.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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