Sample Sentences for
Isis
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    Besides, it's not like Isis is a secret.  (source)
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    After that would be Electra Woman and DynaGirl, followed by back-to-back episodes of Isis and Wonder Woman.  (source)
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    Isis was the wife of Osiris, friend of slaves and sinners, protector of the dead.  (source)
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    Isis gleaming eyes held the man in thrall.  (source)
    Isis = Egyptian goddess of fertility and more
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    I suppose one joins the League of Nations Union, and reads the Isis every week, and drinks coffee in the morning at the Cadena café, and smokes a great pipe and plays hockey and goes out to tea on Boar's Hill and to lectures at Keble, and rides a bicycle with a little tray full of note-books and drinks cocoa in the evening and discusses sex seriously.  (source)
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    The colleges are ancient and picturesque; the streets are almost magnificent; and the lovely Isis, which flows beside it through meadows of exquisite verdure, is spread forth into a placid expanse of waters, which reflects its majestic assemblage of towers, and spires, and domes, embosomed among aged trees.  (source)
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    They had stopped for a rest, were lounging on the grass while Edith and Lorina played in the shallows of the river Isis, as that particular stretch of the Thames was called.  (source)
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    "It was Isis," Langdon told them, grabbing a grease pen.  (source)
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    Ah, now you are trying to penetrate into the mysteries of Isis, in which I am not initiated.  (source)
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    The entrance is adorned by giant statues of Isis and Osiris.  (source)
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    Perhaps a touch of Isis and Osiris thrown in; Osiris was torn apart, and the goddess Isis succeeded in reassembling him except for the part that makes Jake Barnes resemble him (the Osiris myth is an Egyptian fertility myth).  (source)
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    Isis Giving Bread and Water to the Soul (Egypt, date uncertain).  (source)
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    To be an enemy is to hate, and hating is a sickness which Isis will not suffer to come near me.  (source)
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    Subject two was lying seminude on the bed, smoking in violation of hotel rules and the laws of ISIS.  (source)
    ISIS = Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
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    "It will happen soon enough," Isis said, "as your mother foresaw."  (source)
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    "Isis!" exclaimed Mrs. McDaniels, reaching out a hand to stroke the cat's fur.  (source)
    Isis = the name of a cat in this story
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    Evidently, the money wasn't intended for ISIS's general fund.  (source)
    ISIS = Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
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    Isis turned her head and sniffed Max's mother.  (source)
    Isis = the name of a cat in this story
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    The senior ISIS commanders are all Iraqis.  (source)
    ISIS = Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
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    "Isis was my charge, Max," explained his mother, stroking the cat's glossy fir.  (source)
    Isis = the name of a cat in this story
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    So he came to us with a pretty story about how he was too virtuous to deal with the likes of ISIS.  (source)
    ISIS = Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
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    Mrs. McDaniels and Isis were dozing when Max and Cooper entered the healing ward.  (source)
    Isis = the name of a cat in this story
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    The French are concerned that ISIS has managed to construct a sophisticated network on French soil.  (source)
    ISIS = Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
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    "Come closer so I can see you," croaked Mrs. McDaniels, stroking Isis's sleek coat.  (source)
    Isis = the name of a cat in this story
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    "ISIS must be enjoying this," said Gabriel.  (source)
    ISIS = Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
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    Isis had stopped breathing and Max knew, in an instant of agonizing clarity, that both had passed.  (source)
    Isis = the name of a cat in this story
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