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Adonis
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    By the way, December 25 is also the birthday of Osiris, Adonis, and Dionysus.†  (source)
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    Delicate Adonis is dying, Cytherea, what shall we do?†  (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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    Tristan and Isolde, the Duke Orsino and Olivia (and Malvolio too), Troilus and Criseyde, Mr. Knightley and Emma, Venus and Adonis.†  (source)
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    It didn't matter if he was a buffed-up Adonis, or if he was some nerd who couldn't get his arms around it.†  (source)
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    Upon my word, Basil, I didn't know you were so vain; and I really can't see any resemblance between you, with your rugged strong face and your coal-black hair, and this young Adonis, who looks as if he was made out of ivory and rose-leaves.†  (source)
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    He stood five feet and nothing, but was well-built, like a scale model of Adonis, and with him arrived the stink of stale cigarette smoke.†  (source)
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    Throughout the ancient world such myths and rites abounded: the deaths and resurrections of Tammuz, Adonis, Mithra, Virbius, Attis, and Osiris, and of their various animal representatives (goats and sheep, bulls, pigs, horses, fish, and birds) are known to every student of comparative religion;†  (source)
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    "There's not a finer fellow in the service," Osborne said, "nor a better officer, though he is not an Adonis, certainly."†  (source)
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    The contrast was as striking as it could have been eighteen years before, when Rigg was a most unengaging kickable boy, and Raffles was the rather thick-set Adonis of bar-rooms and back-parlors.†  (source)
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    There and thus they would muse; if their grief were the grief of oppression they would wish themselves kings; if their grief were poverty, wish themselves millionaires; if sin, they would wish they were saints or angels; if despised love, that they were some much-courted Adonis of county fame.†  (source)
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    He stood in the middle of the kitchen, the statue of Adonis again, staring abstractedly out the back windows.†  (source)
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    I had drawn you as Paris in dainty armour, and as Adonis with huntsman's cloak and polished boar-spear.†  (source)
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Adonis Carter.  (source)
Adonis = a name in this novel
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