Noun : a titan of industry. From Dictionary.com.
Melpo Mene is named after the Greek muse of tragedy, who in mythology is the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne (the Titaness who rules memory). From Wordnik.com. [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Twenty-Nine] Reference
But whoever, in those mystic ages that have ceased to be historic and have become mythic, whoever made the Sphinx, -- whether it were some Titaness sequestered from all her kind by genie-spells, forced to live amid these desert solitudes, fed from the abundant hands of Nature, and taught by dreams inspired and twilight visions. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
But the muse of their inspiration was not the tragic Titaness of Dürer's painting. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
This strange Titaness is, first, a nymph only; afterwards, as if changed incurably by the passionate cry of. From Wordnik.com. [Greek Studies: a Series of Essays] Reference
Metis, named after the Titaness of wisdom, may not bloom again for five, 15 or even 100 years, Kasperek said. From Wordnik.com. [theithacajournal.com -] Reference
The antique weapon was held by stout thongs to the wall; she plucked it from its fastenings with the strength of a Titaness. From Wordnik.com. [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference
The Titaness approached, and bending her knee, she pressed the ground, that she might take up the cool water to drink; the company of rustics forbade it. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference
Such predictions did my aged mother the Titaness Themis rehearse to me; but how and when -- to tell this requires a long detail, and thou in knowing it all wouldst be in nought a gainer. From Wordnik.com. [Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes] Reference
And there's something so gloriously free in this high level common – as flat as if my Titaness had found a little Mont Blanc, and amused herself with patting it down like a dough-cake. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
Titaness, rising from her sleep, with trailing white robes, which caught on the trees and the points of rock, and hung in fleecy tatters on the hillside, and curled in snowy circles through the coves and hollows. From Wordnik.com. [Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls] Reference
He had contented himself with forewarnings, with hints, with indirect suggestions; but now all his sympathy was so strongly roused on her behalf that the last faint scruple of filial conscience vanished into the abyss of blood over which stood that lonely Titaness. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia — Complete] Reference
We have both speculated in the joys and freedom of our youth upon the possible improvement of society; and both in like manner have lived to dread with reason the effects of that restless spirit which, like the Titaness Mutability described by your immortal master, insults heaven and disturbs the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society] Reference
O Titaness among deities! the covered outline of thine aspect sickens often through its uncertainty, but define to us one trait, show us one lineament, clear in awful sincerity; we may gasp in untold terror, but with that gasp we drink in a breath of thy divinity; our heart shakes, and its currents sway like rivers lifted by earthquake, but we have swallowed strength. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
A young Titaness, -- and was wrapping her arms around me with a sort of fierce impatience. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Max] Reference
And there's something so gloriously free in this high level common -- as flat as if my Titaness had found a little Mont Blanc, and amused herself with patting it down like a dough-cake. ". From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
What, shall a Titaness be deify'd. From Wordnik.com. [Poems on various subjects, religious and moral] Reference
What, shall a Titaness be deify'd?. From Wordnik.com. [Poems on various subjects, religious and moral] Reference
It might be your Titaness, John –. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
The ancient Titaness, to me her son. From Wordnik.com. [Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays] Reference
It would have buried a Titaness under. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
She was large and strong as a Titaness. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess and Curdie] Reference
Titaness. From Wordnik.com. [Aylwin] Reference
Leto, Titaness, 788 n. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
"What, shall a Titaness be deify'd. From Wordnik.com. [Poems on various subjects, religious and moral] Reference
75: "What, shall a Titaness be deify'd. From Wordnik.com. [Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral] Reference
& #160 "What! shall a Titaness be deified. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans] Reference
Jonsons, Southamptons and Willoughbys, with an Elizabeth, guiding and moulding the great whole, a crowned Titaness, terrible, and strong, and wise -- a woman who, whether right or wrong, bowed the proudest, if not to love, yet still to obey. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference
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