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Definition of Sagittaries
1. sagittary [n] - See also: sagittary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sagittaries
Literary usage of Sagittaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1824)
"May not many of the heraldic bearings which have suns and lions, sagittaries and
resemblances of the signs of. the zodiac, have an astrological allusion, ..."
2. John Dennis: His Life and Criticism by Harry Gilbert Paul (1911)
"... Capricorns, sagittaries, and yet the Virgo still remain intacta ... at last
down goes Rinaldo's enchanted mountain; . . . and there is not so much as a ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"... between Poland and Bohemia, the nearest place to the coast. 201. Egypt produces
more sagittaries than any other country. Vol. 8. P. 80. ..."
4. The Nō Plays of Japan by Arthur Waley (1922)
"sagittaries white and black. CHORUS. Tattered cloak,1 KOMACHI. Broken hat . . .
CHORUS. She cannot hide her face from our eyes; And how her limbs KOMACHI. ..."
5. A New History of the English Stage, from the Restoration to the Liberty of by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1882)
"'Twas a pleasant reflection all this time to see her situated among the bulls,
capricorns, and sagittaries.— Grit. But this merry time lasted not always. ..."
6. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1808)
"... robed, and crowned, with an olive branch; the second, a Wivern; the third,
David playing on the Harp; the fourth, sagittaries; the fifth, ..."
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