Grecian

//ˈɡɹiːʃn̩//

"Grecian" in a Sentence (11 examples)

"Could Pallas burn the Grecian fleet, and drown / their crews, for one man's crime, Oileus' frenzied son?"

Lo, Panthus, flying from the Grecian bands, / Panthus, the son of Othrys, Phoebus' seer, / bearing the sacred vessels in his hands, / and vanquished home-gods, to the door draws near, / his grandchild clinging to his side in fear.

"Ne'er / to Grecian women shall I bow the knee, / never in Argos see captivity, / I, who my lineage from the Dardans tell, / allied to Venus."

A single house can have a French-inspired mansard roof, Grecian columns, and English Tudor-inspired timbering.

Crete, although its chiefs, Idomeneus and Meriones, are only of secondary rank among the heroes of the Iliad, is obviously one of the most important of Grecian lands.

The work of the Greek historian, Polybius, originally in forty volumes, of which only five remain entire, covered a period from the downfall of the Macedonian power to the subversion of Grecian liberty by the Romans in 146 B.C.

Olympic Games. — Besides the ordinary confederacies that join independent states together, a singular federal bond is remarkable in the Olympic games, which for many ages cemented the Grecian commonwealths by a joint tie of recreation and religious ritual.

He was a young man with a scornful mouth and the bright blue eyes of a healthy baby set in a dark sensitive face. His hair was pitch black, damp and curly—the hair of a Grecian statue gone brunette.

Chlorine blue, bordered in forest green and looking out onto a Grecian gazebo, the pool was composed of hundreds of ceramic kitchen tiles, like a Minecraft version of C.Z. Guest’s once-upon-a-time world.

I spoke of Mr. Harris, of Salisbury, as being a very learned man, and in particular an eminent Grecian.

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[…] and I will so exhibit its very words as that the reader, even if no Grecian, may understand the point in litigation.

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