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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Paphian? Here are some examples.
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Sentence Examples
| People passed, but they held me not. Paphian eyes rayed upon me, and left me unscathed. |
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| I lay, as it were, in the Paphian bower of bliss, in a state of exquisite sensations quite impossible to describe. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| He will swear you are not only wiser than Minerva, but fairer than the Paphian queen! |
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| A small model of a temple is peculiarly Phnician, like that repeated upon Paphian coins. |
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| Would you worship the Paphian goddess, the groves of Cyprus are not more taciturn than those of the Temple. |
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| Another daughter of the Paphian divinity presides at the shrine of rouge et noir. |
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| The performances at the Paphian Hall on that festive occasion need not be described here with accuracy. |
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| A tear the Paphian sheds for each blood-drop of Adonis, and tears and blood on the earth are turned to flowers. |
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| He might have been an overgrown and badly dressed Cupid who had innocently wandered from Paphian shores. |
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| Hence will it tend to dissensualise its nature into fantastic passions, the idolatry of Paphian priestesses. |
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