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How to use dido in a sentence

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But dido got to the loot first, and absconded with it to North Africa, where she set up her kingdom.
I remember Raymond telling me years later how when he lived at home, if his mother heard he had been seen as much as talking to a girl, she would kick up a dido.
After one too many chill-out compilations featuring remixes of Dido songs, downtempo seemed destined to die a quick death.
He said there was a photograph of her in the mayor's parlour in Bolton Town Hall of her visit to HMS Dido, which was Bolton's adopted ship.
Lieberson gets her own diva showcase at the Met later on this season, as Dido in Berlioz's Les Troyens, and I can't wait.
I first encountered Raymond Leppard as the brilliant harpsichordist in Barbirolli's recording of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
The teenage songstress was up against some strong competition, including performances from soundalikes singing as Justin Hawkins, Luther Vandross and Dido.
Dido, the Carthaginian queen, offered hospitality to the Trojans.
The story of Dido and Aeneas derives from the original source in Virgil's epic the Aeneid.
Other successful 2000s UK acts include Dido, Arctic Monkeys, Mika, Bullet for My Valentine and Bring Me the Horizon.
The city's legendary founder, Elissa or Dido, was the widow of Acharbas the high priest of Tyre in service to its principal deity Melqart.
One cannot just blurt out — as Dido and Olwyn blurt out — how awful X is.
Of the dramas attributed to Marlowe, Dido, Queen of Carthage is believed to have been his first.
The composition of Dido and Aeneas gave Purcell his first chance to write a sustained musical setting of a dramatic text.
At the time, Dido and Aeneas never found its way to the theatre, though it appears to have been very popular in private circles.
The semaphorically named Dido is a smoky-voiced graduate of England's trip-hop scene.
Had Virgil been a circular poet, and closely adhered to history, how could the Romans have had Dido?
According to Virgil's Aeneid and other ancient sources, the legendary Queen Dido was a Phoenician from Tyre who sailed to North Africa and founded the city of Carthage.
Examples from Classical Literature
He was one of our best men, and captain of the forecastle on board the dido.
She might have posed as dido when she learned that the noble neas was dead.
Ilioneus in his speech to dido calls him expressly by the name of king.
Whilst neas and Achates were still gazing, Queen Dido drew near with a great retinue of maidens and youths.
The pair are Dido and her relative and companion Lady Elizabeth Murray, brought up together in aristocratic society as sisters.
So, to this day, Dido still brings back the greatest memories and feelings.
Dido is afforded certain privileges by her lineage but she must remain behind closed doors at important social gatherings.
The subject of the threnody is a nymph of the name of Dido, whose identity can only be vaguely conjectured.
Todd Delaney was an ardent and nicely conflicted Aeneas to Hall's Dido, Teri Dunn a vivid Belinda and Marion Newman a wily scheming rather than truly malevolent Sorceress.
Mary then looked at him as Dido looked at AEneas in the Elysian fields, fierce and disdainful.
The second wife was Dido, the queen and foundress of Carthage in Africa.
Here all is literal, even to the severed arm of Wolfe, and the urn which held the ashes of Queen Dido.
I ought to be a Dido and Niobe and Cassandra rolled into one.
For a while the figure of Dido is that of happy, insatiate passion.
Lord Mansfield's wife is opposed to the plan but he permits Dido to stay, allowing his great-niece to become a constant companion to her cousin, Elizabeth.
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