Moreover, it is a tale of providential escapes; thrice has the so-called Cretan been saved specially, in Ægypt, from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference

Mr. Cretan is truly a hero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Video: Dramatic fire rescue] Reference

The seventh labor was the capture of the Cretan bull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference

This tale was current among the Cretan peasantry in 1820.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series] Reference

A squadron of the Venetians remained in the Cretan ports.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

The Cretan labyrinth that everywhere confronts him is the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference

Venetian galleys kept for guardship duties in Cretan waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

Dungi (Ward, Fig. 663). (f) Design on a Cretan sarcophagus from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Cretan peasant, furnished with the merest necessities of existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference

It is not true that Russia is at the bottom of this Cretan trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 20, March 25, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference

Cretan merchants preceded the Phoenicians as carriers between Asia and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Otherwise he is no Cretan, and must be degraded from his Professorship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 30, 1891] Reference

Vergèce, the Cretan scholar and calligraphist who designed Greek types for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Telemachus was naturally interested to learn respecting the Cretan monarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Fig. 70 is taken from a Cretan embroidery, in which this stitch is mainly used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference

The Cretan civilization swept over South Greece in the first Late Minoan period.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference

The Cretans were servants of the common master; the Cretan bonds were endangered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference

Cretan customs similar to the Lacedasmonian, 57; assembly open to every citizen, 58.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference

The foreign troops are to remain on the island until a Cretan militia has been organized.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 38, July 29, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference

Europe is still looking around for some one on whom to cast the blame for the Cretan muddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 20, March 25, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference

Demetrius Kalergy is descended from a Cretan family, whose name is famous in the annals of Candia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

To complete the identification with the cow-mother Cretan fable represents a sow suckling the infant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Many a Cretan bird was sacrificed before the task which the inventor had set himself was accomplished.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Myths] Reference

Artemis was a moon-goddess closely related to Britomartis and Diktynna, the Cretan prototype of Aphrodite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

A few details touching upon the close of the Cretan war may be found in Xiphilinus (p. 1, 12-20), as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference

The stitch shown in fig. 69, known as plait or Cretan, is commonly seen on Cretan and other Eastern embroideries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference

Grill away, roast me, but you, my child, take off this Cretan robe and blame no one but your mother for your death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference

And these are the particulars of the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian governments which seem worthy of commendation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference

Why not summon these countless myriads of bright and invincible spearmen, to batter down the walls of this Cretan labyrinth of Life?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference

The moral seems to be that if you plan to eat like a Cretan peasant, you'd better start living like one by slaving in the fields from dawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fat That's Good For You] Reference