I call them the "pleiad" of Central Europe's great novelists. From Wordnik.com. [cfbc interviews] Reference
In the second, at the same time that the great Central Europeans were writing their masterpieces, America herself had her own great "pleiad," one which would influence the entire world and which was that of Hemingway, Faulkner and Dos Passos. From Wordnik.com. [cfbc interviews] Reference
Indeed, as befitted a movement confined to the intelli - gentsia and represented by a pleiad of outstanding intellectuals, philosophical doubt played a greater part. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our subject; this history, moreover, has been finished, and finished in a masterly manner, from one point of view by Napoleon, and from another point of view by a whole pleiad of historians. 7 7. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
She produced an admirable pleiad of poets and prose writers of high merit. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Literature] Reference
But he inaugurates the pleiad of amateur, curious, and commercial travellers. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World] Reference
This brother was a star scholar, and Friedrich looked up to him as a pleiad of pedagogy. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers] Reference
So saying, he let Garry have the remaining six with a brilliancy that fully compensated for the lost pleiad. From Wordnik.com. [Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck] Reference
Countess Rostopchine is in that pleiad-like group of poets that group themselves around the brilliant figures of Poushkine and. From Wordnik.com. [Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893] Reference
The mistake, meantime, I believe to be, not in the Grecian pleiad of sages, but in ourselves, who have falsely apprehended them. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference
Americans, and after breakfast this born leader sets forth at the head of the timid pleiad longing to explore the great human warren of. From Wordnik.com. [East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan] Reference
The humane society never heard of him, the neighbors did not miss him, and the law took no cognizance of this detached citizen -- this lost pleiad. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Fear] Reference
Goujon who had found the Pagan chisel of Phidias, Ronsard discovered the lyre of Pindar and founded, aided by his pleiad, the great French lyric school. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemians of the Latin Quarter] Reference
The Renaissance produced a pleiad of distinguished poets, historians, critics, antiquaries, theologians, and moralists which made the sixteenth century a golden age. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
He described these writers as "a pleiad or constellation of seven golden stars, such as in their class no literature can match," and from whose works he would undertake "to build up an entire body of philosophy.". From Wordnik.com. [Character] Reference
There arose a general wail for him, as for a lost pleiad, not only in England, but over the whole world; a great rush of enthusiasm for his memory, to which the greatest literary men of England freely gave voice. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time] Reference
They were, pre-eminently, excellent describers of states of the soul, admirable psychological moralists and they were the ancestors of the highly remarkable pleiad of English psychologists of the nineteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Philosophy] Reference
In Gaul a pleiad of writers and theologians develops at Lérins or within the radius of that monastery's influence -- Cassian, Honoratus, Eucherius of Lyons, Vincent of Lérins, Hilary of Arles, Valerian of Cemelium. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Our friendship is of long standing; I assisted at the first lispings of his muse; I saw his young glory grow and expand; I predicted from the first the place that he now holds in the poetic pleiad, the honor of a great nation. From Wordnik.com. [The Cross of Berny] Reference
In a week or two he would be on the streets; for a poor widow could not be expected to lodge, partially board (with use of the piano, gas), an absolutely penniless young gentleman, though he combined the blood of twenty county families with the genius of a pleiad of tone-poets. From Wordnik.com. [Merely Mary Ann] Reference
He studied, he formulated his system, he obtained the chair of metaphysics in the University of Madrid, and he founded a school, from which has since issued a brilliant pleiad of philosophers and statesmen, and of men illustrious for their learning, their eloquence, and their virtues. From Wordnik.com. [Authors Preface to the First American Edition] Reference
In them Arthur dwells in Cornwall, and not as in the others at Caerleon on the Usk. In them he appears with an individual character, hunting and taking a personal part in warfare, while in the more modern tales he is only an emperor all-powerful and impassive, a truly sluggard hero, around whom a pleiad of active heroes groups itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetry of the Celtic Races. II.] Reference
In them Arthur dwells in Cornwall, and not as in the others at Caerleon on the Usk. In them he appears with an individual character, hunting and taking a personal part in warfare, while in the more modern tales he is only an emperor all - powerful and impassive, a truly sluggard hero, around whom a pleiad of active heroes groups itself. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference
Of course, we do not here pretend to furnish a history of the battle of Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our subject; this history, moreover, has been finished, and finished in a masterly manner, from one point of view by Napoleon, and from another point of view by a whole pleiad of historians. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette] Reference
A pleiad of brilliant names fills the thirteenth century -- Alexander of Hales, St. Bonaventure, Bl. Albertus Magnus, St. Thomas Aquinas. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
"The pleiad of famous artists who mastered and implemented achievements of the world cinematograph has grown here. From Wordnik.com. [forUm] Reference
There are alternative to open classes available on the JVM like http://pleiad.dcc.uchile.cl/research/software/classboxes. From Wordnik.com. [Ruby over Scala] Reference
A skilful and very able pleiad of. From Wordnik.com. [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference
New pleiad of serious people is coming. From Wordnik.com. [forUm] Reference
A pleiad of tone poets. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes] Reference
On arriving this year at Cambridge, he found, amid a circle of intellectual companions which Moore calls "a brilliant pleiad," a young man of genius, an extraordinary thinker, a mind that had, perhaps, some affinity to his own, but which, devoid of his sensibility and logic, surpassed him in hardihood; a bold spirit, striving to scrutinize the inscrutable, and, not content with analysis, desirous to arrive at. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English] Reference
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