Looking for sentences and phrases with the word nepenthe? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
The ancient Greeks, when brand-new democracy got too much for them, knew the calming oblivion of eating the lotus or sipping nepenthe.
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!
Homer wrote of nepenthe, which was probably cannabis or opium.
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!' Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'Prophetet!' said I, 'thing of evil! – prophet still, if bird or devil!
And she poured from a golden urn, into a cup of the same metal, the sombre-coloured beverage which she had mingled with the soporiferous juice of the nepenthe.
Five races later, McCarron added to his total with a win aboard Nepenthe in the Waya Handicap.
Examples from Classical Literature
I did not find the nepenthe I sought for anywhere on draught, so I went home in disgust.
The other, beneath its bitter lash, becomes a human dynamo, plunging into the nepenthe of toil.
This particular preparation of valerian is nepenthe for the nerves.
Crown us with asphodel flowers, that are wet with the dews of nepenthe.
As the fevered narrator stitches together his delusional tale of woe, his writing becomes his nepenthe.
Perhaps it was a berry of the nepenthe, which brought oblivion.
In the Odyssey, in connection with Helen, mention is made of nepenthe.
I am getting restless again, and there flow the waters of nepenthe.
This is and always has been the baseline fact about what she creates, and until her fourth album, Nepenthe, she never needed assistance.
If that is too pricey, head to the nearby Nepenthe, once owned by Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth.
The company offers its wine under the McGuigan, Miranda, Nepenthe, Passion Pop, Sunnyvale, Tempus Two, and Yaldara brands.
A sculpture at the Nepenthe restaurant in Big Sur, California?
