| One of the medium sized worlds that revolve around Alcyone sustains the shortest lived human beings of our universe. |
| As for a central sun hypothesis, that pointing out Alcyone in particular, there is no reliable evidence whatever. |
| Alcyone never raised her head, but bent over her child, whom she carried in her arms. |
| It was about this time that the artful Countess Olga began once more to drop poisoned words about the court concerning Alcyone. |
| The transformation of Ceyx and Alcyone into sea-gulls gives the poet an opportunity to tell of and praise conjugal fidelity. |
| Alcyone from the first disliked the idea of the ball, and all the rampant merriment connected with it. |
