Until Circe is destroyed, Gemma cannot live out her destiny. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Angels: Summary and book reviews of Rebel Angels by Libba Bray.] Reference
"Why, didn't my maid tell you that I am called Circe?" she replied. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
The first is the concluding chapter of a two-parter called Circe's Island. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
'The Queen isn't called Circe, so that's all right,' said Arsenios, wishing that he had not agreed to come. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
I cannot therefore deeply regret the days when I called Circe a "wise-wife '.' and every marriage a" high-tide. ". From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
Forging ahead where Joyce held back, Mr. Rose details the expenses incurred in the "Circe" chapter. From Wordnik.com. [Making the Wrong Joyce] Reference
The 'Circe' chapter of Ulysses, and a play by Yeats called The Only Jealousy of Emer, get a lot of attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor Who novelisations] Reference
The most famous Wagnerian bit in Ulysses comes in the "Circe" episode, when Bloom and Stephen Dedalus visit a brothel. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
Letters to a typist of the "Circe" episode are extant, and two copyists of that episode are identifiable from their handwriting. From Wordnik.com. [The Scandal of 'Ulysses'] Reference
The mother's name is "Circe" and she is 10 ½ years old. From Wordnik.com. [CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for Breaking News, Weather, and Sports] Reference
He felt a loathing for them such as Circe must have felt for her swine. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 29] Reference
The "Circe," for example, of the Borghese Palace, is worthy to rank with the best Renaissance work. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference
It is very kind of Circe, but we are too old for love; and of you, but we are too old for amusement. From Wordnik.com. [Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy] Reference
The fiction is derived from Homer's "Circe;" but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
No matter if he does Number Five is a kind of Circe who does not turn the victims of her enchantment into swine, but into lambs. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Teacups] Reference
But let the objector ask somebody with no knowledge to subvert, how he supposes 'Circe' is spelt in Greek, and the answer will be 'with. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)] Reference
The sentence in dispute does not refer to "Circe" the chapter, but Circe the Homeric sorceress ” here the whoremistress Bella. From Wordnik.com. ['Making the Wrong Joyce': An Exchange] Reference
Circe, which is always a problem with the reader. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
Till Pleasure, Circe-like, transform us into swine. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Dreams Poems] Reference
Quenched is the raging of bulls; and the sun's daughter Circe. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
The whole circle halted, as though Circe had transfixed them. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
Homer declares that the habitation of Circe was on an island. From Wordnik.com. [Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.] Reference
"It is all your own fault," goes on Circe, strong in argument. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Odysseus met Circe, though the story seems to me untrustworthy, for. From Wordnik.com. [Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.] Reference
He will paint her as Circe, mocking at her grovelling herd of swine!. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
Homer, his testimony as to the place where Odysseus met Circe, V. xi. From Wordnik.com. [Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.] Reference
It belongs with peculiar propriety to Circe, as the daughter of the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Having Circe turn Odysseus 'men into swine is a great imaginative device. From Wordnik.com. [From the Found Notebooks of Homer's Writing Group] Reference
Circe, was too hot for human occupancy without drastic and too costly world-changing. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
"Why, then, she must be Circe herself," I exclaimed: "it's a terrible look-out for me!". From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
He had obeyed the beckoning of a Circe, and now she held out to him his swine's reward of husks. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
In obedience to the voice, the twin-brothers invoked divine assistance, and the heroes set out in search of the isle of Circe. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
But mindful of the injunction of Circe, Odysseus brandished his sword, and suffered none to approach until Tiresias had appeared. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
And a patrol lane had been drawn about the Circe system the minute that Survey had marked its second planet ready for colonization. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
There was something terrible, Circe-like, to her in the face, the movements, the very voice of this woman who had taken Drake from her. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
Circe received the hero with all the grace and fascination at her command, and presented him with a draught of wine in a golden goblet. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
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