The name of the Grecian poetess, Sappho, is probably known to almost every reader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination] Reference

Sappho is neither sexually loose, as Gainsborough's chemise suggests, nor sexually innocent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text] Reference

The authoress, who died in 1701, aged 94, was called the Sappho of her time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays] Reference

Comparisons, especially about the beauty of women, are very artistic, recalling Sappho and Catullus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times] Reference

That beautiful re - lique of Sappho, which is well known to the Englifh reader by Mr. Phillips's excel - lent tranflation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical ...] Reference

I think Sappho aka Lynn pegs my view pretty well - I see a need for strong gender distinctions as an essentially childish perspective.    From Wordnik.com.  [And a bit more on real manhood] Reference

Margaret's was a fine, well-bred animal, called Sappho, with a skin as smooth as a white suede glove; it stood almost as high as a mule.    From Wordnik.com.  [There was a King in Egypt] Reference

And Sappho is a roving dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Few Figs from Thistles] Reference

The "Sappho" of this author displays much lyric beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference

It was as if the play of "Sappho" were dedicated to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors] Reference

"Sappho," and was having it bound in morocco, with turkey-red trimmings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Book of Tales] Reference

In 1851, however, he brought out his first opera, "Sappho," which met with success.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers] Reference

In this clip, Lucy plays 'Sappho', a sexually precocious Catholic schoolgirl who finally kisses the object of desire, Gloria the dancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [DrunkenStepfather - Celebrity Gossip, Sex, Entertainment, Good Times] Reference

"Sappho"), "show that her morality was what has ever since been known as 'Lesbian.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion] Reference

Some years ago "Sappho" (in three acts ” text by Augier, music by Gounod) was given at the Paris Opera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters]

"Sappho" bronze located Section South Site Lot 1876 and grave site of Vinnie Ream, Section 3, Brigadier General Richard L. Hoxie.    From Wordnik.com.  [PR.com Press Releases] Reference

She always called Sappho her sister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

Sappho, and several ladies and gentlemen of the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

Juno, who was very musical, made quite a stately Sappho.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference

C. 51, and possibly some parts of c. 61, are from Sappho.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Sappho and Joan d'Arc are the only other women on the list.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

I amuse myself at times with the fancy that Homer, Sappho, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysistrata] Reference

After many long conversations about her, Sappho concludes thus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the French Salons] Reference

Sappho in song, Aspasia in the salon, Deborah among the Judges of.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Suffragette] Reference

The name Lesbia (which scans like Clodia) may be got from Sappho, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Sappho is represented as especially aware of this aspect of her love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference

Phaon's affection away from Sappho, back to Thalassa, the mother of his children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference

It is fair to class Sappho as a musician, for in ancient Greece poetry and music were inseparable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

And among the Muses it would not be amiss to mention Sappho; for as the Romans say Cacus the son of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

To many of them, without the least flattery, may be applied the distich which Sappho ascribes to herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference

For the fiery and lucid directness of Sappho, if her note of personal lyricism is abstracted, is seen to be an element of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysistrata] Reference