Niobe is an ambiguous character.
Source: tatoeba (2795264)
Niobe
/ˈnaɪ.oʊ.bi/
Synonyms for "niobe" (9 found)
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Related word relations
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More general
6 entriesMore specific
7 entriesTheban queenbas reliefgrieving mothermarble sculpturepoetic motifstone statuetragic archetype
Collocations
8 entriesNiobe mythNiobe statueTheban queengrief motifgrieving mothermournful mothermyth figurestatue of Niobe
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriesNiobeanmyth figure
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
With which she followed my poore Fathers body / Like Niobe, all teares.
Source: wiktionary
There is a word will Priam turne to stone, Make wells and Niobe’s of the maides and wiues.
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But when a man has been ranging, like the painful bee, from flower to flower, perhaps for a month together, and the thoughts of home and wife begin to have their charms with him, to be received by a Niobe, who, like a wounded vine, weeps her vitals away, while she but involuntarily curls about him; how shall I be able to bear that?
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