Sample Sentences forOrpheus (auto-selected)
-
•
And Orpheus—he tried to bring his wife back.† (source)
-
•
Then there're Theseus, Oedipus, Peleus, Orpheus, Jason and Hercules all waiting to be untangled, since their various deeds are running crisscross through my mind like multicolored threads in a dress.† (source)
-
•
The scientific celebrities, forgetting their mollusks and glacial periods, gossiped about art, while devoting themselves to oysters and ices with characteristic energy; the young musician, who was charming the city like a second Orpheus, talked horses; and the specimen of the British nobility present happened to be the most ordinary man of the party.† (source)
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
ORPHEUS charmed her to-night.† (source)
-
•
Yet in it there was a representation of a roosted bird and an entranced beast and a self-enrapturing man, except that this time the man was Orpheus and the rapture came from music rather than prayer.† (source)
-
•
The image of her in his mind receded, vanishing imploringly into the darkness, as Eurydice had vanished when Orpheus had turned to look at her one last time.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more
-
•
One evening Cottard and Tarrou went to the Municipal Opera House, where Gluck's Orpheus was being given.† (source)
-
•
The warships Roebuck and Phoenix, and the frigates Orpheus and Carysfort— four ships mounting 148 cannon—proceeded up the East River with six troop transports, to anchor in Bushwick Creek.† (source)
-
•
The fear squeezed and milked the strength out of my arms and legs, but I tried to fight, hearing grunts and Orpheus pulls of string from the deep bottom, and then all the consciousness there was to me seemed a hairlash in the crushing water universe.† (source)
-
•
Orpheus and Eurydice.† (source)
-
•
The Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, and hundreds of analogous tales throughout the world, suggest, as does this ancient legend of the farthest East, that in spite of the failure recorded, a possibility exists of a return of the lover with his lost love from beyond the terrible threshold.† (source)
-
•
Daedalus is the base; Orpheus is the wall; Hermes is the edifice,—that is all.† (source)
-
•
"With mankind," he would say, "forms, measured forms are everything; and that is the import couched in the story of Orpheus with his lyre spell-binding the wild denizens of the wood."† (source)
-
•
For the most part I escaped wonderfully from these dangers, either by proceeding at once boldly and without deliberation to the goal, as is recommended to those who run the gauntlet, or by keeping my thoughts on high things, like Orpheus, who, "loudly singing the praises of the gods to his lyre, drowned the voices of the Sirens, and kept out of danger."† (source)
-
•
"These composers," Captain Nemo answered me, "are the contemporaries of Orpheus, because in the annals of the dead, all chronological differences fade; and I'm dead, professor, quite as dead as those friends of yours sleeping six feet under!"† (source)
-
•
...Orpheus and the Bacchantes!† (source)
▲ show less (of above)