Author was possibly referring to "Egeria", an English warship which is also mentioned elsewhere in the text.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

In several other passages of the same work Silvia (also called Egeria, Echeria, Eiheria, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

Mrs. Hemans under the name of Egeria, appeared in 1830.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alaric Watts: A Narrative of His Life] Reference

Pompilius had his mysterious interviews with the nymph Egeria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

Such an one was Egeria, with whom Numa was so familiar, Diana, Ceres.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference

But in the winter Egeria shows her power of adaptation by furnishing instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Even Numa Pompilius, with his Egeria, would have answered Bernier in the same manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

While I remain, come to me when you will, let me be the Egeria of your hours of leisure, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference

The guests were for the most part literary folk, to whom Mills wanted to display his Egeria.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gay Cockade] Reference

Later, she would be regarded as the Egeria of the aesthetic movement of the eighteen nineties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ada Leverson.] Reference

The groves of Egeria nursed him round the spongy shore where Diana's altar stands rich and gracious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

In the grove of Egeria the plates are spread in circles, while all the company sing part-songs and dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference

However, he declared himself very hard to please in that matter; he dreamed of an Egeria, a superior mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

A woman named Egeria, a pilgrim from France, described one such pilgrimage which took place in the fourth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stations of the Cross] Reference

A spring still bubbles forth beside a cluster of farm-buildings, which is said to be the veritable Fountain of Egeria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

Egeria is said to have initiated Numa Pompilius in the forms of religious worship, which he introduced among his people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference

The romance of the grove of Egeria was, however, dispelled when the valley was turned into a place of imprisonment for the Jews.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

It is supposed that in this Catacomb were interred the bodies of the Jews who were banished to the valley of Egeria by Domitian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

It was her custom after the labors of the day to steal up to the study, where, like Numa and Egeria, they held serene communion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference

Numa and Egeria, and she doubted not that some Italian sculptor had here represented the Naiad whose inspirations gave laws to Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenilworth] Reference

He tells them that he has spoken with the nymph Egeria in a cavern, and that the nymph has been employed by Jupiter to give him laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

The bags-to-bubbly luxury giant just announced a deal to purchase Royal van Lent Shipyard from the Amsterdam private-equity firm Egeria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oligarch princess] Reference

This admonition had its usual effect on the Egeria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Western Eyes] Reference

Yet Mahomet had never read of the cave of Egeria, ubi nocturnae.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5] Reference

An enamoured Egeria who is not a princess in her worldly state nor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

Egeria was one of them, whose fountain and grotto are still shown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of Fable] Reference

Why don't you oftener bring us reports of your interviews with Egeria?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis] Reference

Byron, in "Childe Harold," Canto IV., thus alludes to Egeria and her grotto.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of Fable] Reference

She was the Egeria of a minister, and also looked for "a tidy fortune," which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1] Reference

Promise me you will always be good to him; be my son's friend; his Egeria, he names you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

Egeria, the wife of Numa, is inconsolable after his death, and is changed into a fountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations] Reference

Though I am grieved that she is to be your son's Egeria and not mine yet I offer you and Sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Gray] Reference

King Numa receiving in a cavern, from the nymph of Egeria, the laws which were to govern Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers] Reference

The company's insurance unit has been disposed off to Egeria, a Dutch investment firm for €212 million.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

AEGON has completed the sale of its funeral insurance business in the Netherlands to Dutch investment firm Egeria for EUR 212 million.    From Wordnik.com.  [TradingMarkets] Reference

Dacier's native taste; consequently the attractions of Diana Warwick for him were, he thought, chiefly mental, those of a Lady Egeria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference