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Definition of Tantaluses
1. tantalus [n] - See also: tantalus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tantaluses
Literary usage of Tantaluses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Persian Letters by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, John Davidson, Edouard de Beaumont (1892)
"Those who gather the taxes swim in wealth ; and there are few tantaluses among them.
It is the extremity of misery, however, that drives them into this ..."
2. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1824)
"Jupiter, in the fable, descends upon earth to punish Tantalus and Lycaon; but in
history, our tantaluses and ..."
3. Musicians of To-day by Romain Rolland (1915)
"Nietzsche, speaking of the artists of our time, laughs at " those tantaluses of
the will, rebels and enemies of laws, who come, broken in spirit, ..."
4. Musicians of To-day by Romain Rolland (1915)
"Nietzsche, speaking of the artists of our time, laughs at " those tantaluses of
the will, rebels and enemies of laws, who come, broken in spirit, ..."
5. Essay on the Theory of the Earth by Georges Cuvier, Robert Jameson (1827)
"may be considered as generic, are absolutely the same. We must therefore search
for the true ibis, not among those tantaluses of ..."
6. Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography by Frederic William Farrar (1889)
"... walls dried with heat that the inmates might not be hit by the droppings of
mud, in which they lived like condemned tantaluses, thirsting amid waters. ..."
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