Venusin a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
Venus as in: the Olympian goddess
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He also brought back sacks of gypsum, and Mom mixed it with water to make Venus de Milo sculptures from a rubber cast she ordered through the mail. (source)Venus = goddess of love in Roman mythology
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So, as he tiptoed into the Finns' bedroom, he called upon Venus to veil him in a mist— just as she had for her son, Aeneas, when he wandered the streets of Carthage—so that his footfalls would be silent, his heartbeat still, and his presence in the room no more notable than a breath of air. (source)
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Because I did not want to be anywhere near the bodies on the floor I drifted over to inspect a group of artists' casts on a beat-up table: a male torso; a draped Venus leaning against a rock; a sandaled foot. (source)Venus = sculpture of the Roman goddess of love
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Every time I see a female nude, such as the Venus in my art history book, I go into ecstasy. (source)Venus = goddess of love in Roman mythology
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Taking my hand, she said, 'I was so afraid it was to be born like Venus out of the foam, as we were! (source)
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She looks like she was the mold for Venus, Goddess of Love. (source)
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They had named her river the Tiber and erected a classical capital of pantheons and temples, all adorned with images of history's great gods and goddesses—Apollo, Minerva, Venus, Helios, Vulcan, Jupiter. (source)Venus = goddess of love in Roman mythology
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These gods were referred to by a special collective name, vaner, a word that is related to the Latin name for the goddess of fertility, Venus. (source)
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That used to be a temple to Venus. (source)
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This man, a friend of Jean de Satigny, had transformed his humble raw materials—flour, eggs, and sugar—into a replica of the Acropolis crowned with a cloud of meringue on which rested two mythological lovers, Venus and Adonis, fashioned out of almond paste colored to imitate the rosy tones of their flesh, their blond hair, and the cobalt blue of their eyes; with them was a pudgy Cupid, also edible, which was sliced in half with a silver knife by the proud groom and the dejected bridle. (source)
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Overhead, a vault of watery blue, Venus and the north star captured within.† (source)
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Cello music swelled out from the house, rising higher and higher until it lifted off the earth, sailing toward Venus.† (source)
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Dressed for a jaunt on Venus, he strolled to the supermarket, the hardware store, and everywhere else he needed to go.† (source)
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"Yeah....cool...." said Harry, scribbling it down, "because...Venus is in the twelfth house."† (source)
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Said the fly just before landing in the Venus flytrap.† (source)
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They're made out of some kind of astronaut plastic that could crash-land on Venus and not break.† (source)
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A planet like Venus has less than one percent oxygen. (source)Venus = planet between Mercury and Earth
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several valuable species of cythera clams and venus clams;† (source)
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You know, master, that the secret of keeping well, according to Hippocrates; ~id est: cibi, potus, somni, venus, omnia moderata sint~.† (source)
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Dolabella, plump paper—bubble shells, umbrella shells exclusive to the Mediterranean, abalone whose shell produces a mother—of—pearl much in demand, pilgrim scallops, saddle shells that diners in the French province of Languedoc are said to like better than oysters, some of those cockleshells so dear to the citizens of Marseilles, fat white venus shells that are among the clams so abundant off the coasts of North America and eaten in such quantities by New Yorkers, variously colored comb shells with gill covers, burrowing date mussels with a peppery flavor I relish, furrowed heart cockles whose shells have riblike ridges on their arching summits, triton shells pocked with scarlet bumps,†
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