Goddess

Examples

• A votary of the Snake Goddess. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• No Endymion will watch for his goddess to-night. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Chnemu creator-god, married to Hekt, a frog goddess. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nature is at once my mother, my nurse, my goddess. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• She was as unconcerned at that contingency as a goddess at a lack of linen. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• That means you are no goddess, said Maurice, sitting down a step lower, and looking up into her charming face. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Give me, then, O goddess, of your treasures! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He addressed some words to the goddess which I could not hear. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Without a word he turned and we followed the officer once again to the closed doors before the audience chamber of Issus, Goddess of Life Eternal. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Better as Chloris, remarked Caliphronas, with a forced smile, coming forward; Chloris, the goddess of flowers. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The tresses are soft as shadow, the shoulders they fall on wear a goddess grace. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Man, dazzled, obedient shall render his homage to thee as of yore, And thou wilt stand forth in thy splendor, a goddess once more. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But Isis, we are told, is no longer Isis but Hariti, a pestilence goddess whom Buddha converted and made benevolent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She was standing quite close to me, so close that her bare arm touched mine as she finally faced Issus, Goddess of Life Eternal. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Were the goddess of beauty to woo me, I could not meet her advances. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Your goddesses. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The places of the outer world and the temples of the therns had been robbed of their princesses and goddesses that the blacks might have their slaves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The Greeks had noble conceptions of womanhood in the goddesses Athene and Artemis, and in the heroines Antigone and Andromache. Plato. The Republic.
• You're an Epicurean like myself, I see: you don't want to see all those goddesses gobbling terrapin. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Several very well executed and complacent-looking fat women struck me as by no means the goddesses they appeared to consider themselves. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Still worse is the attribution of such weakness to the gods; as when the goddesses say, 'Alas! Plato. The Republic.

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