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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word cestus? Here are some examples.
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Sentence Examples
| He fastened with his own hand this rich cestus upon the person of the lovely tourist. |
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| If she spoke rustic Greek instead of bad English, and wore a cestus in place of an ill-fitting corset, you'd swear she was a goddess. |
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| He ridiculed a beautiful cestus, or clasp of brilliants and emeralds. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Her cestus or girdle holds all the magic of passion, and is borrowed even by Hera when she wishes to win her fickle lord. |
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| It is like the work of a skilled heavy-weight pugilist, or the work of an old Roman fighter with the cestus. |
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| The muscles of the arm, the strength of the body, a blow from a cestus, never yet raised that kind of burden off the ground. |
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| Venus has lent her her cestus, and shares with her the attendance of the Graces. |
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| Bards have written of the cestus of Venus, that turned the heads of all the world in successive generations. |
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| We had rather, for our part, have the cestus of Rachel Halliday, that kept heads from being turned, and made everything go on harmoniously. |
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| Instantly, Miss Skiffins stopped it with the neatness of a placid boxer, took off that girdle or cestus as before, and laid it on the table. |
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