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Definition of Halcyons
1. halcyon [n] - See also: halcyon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Halcyons
Literary usage of Halcyons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India. An Epic Poem by Luís de Camões (1877)
"The halcyons very seldom appear but in the finest weather, whence they are ...
When the halcyons are surprised in a tempest, they fly about as in the utmost ..."
2. Narrative of a Yacht Voyage in the Mediterranean: During 1840-41 by Elizabeth Mary Grosvenor Westminster (1842)
"... STRAITS OF DORO MYTILENE TENEDOS THE TROAD THE DARDANELLES "WHITE SPOTS*' OLD
CASTLES OF EUROPE AND ASIA SESTOS AND ABYDOS halcyons VOYAGEURS GALLIPOLI ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1857)
"It is evident that the ancient, and, down to a comparatively late period, the
modern savans, knew no more about these Greek and Roman halcyons than they did ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"... or the halcyons with expanded wings. Aristotle describes the nest of what he
terms the mute Halcyon, *xxw«ep<u»«f. He relates that it resembles those ..."
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