Lexicographical Neighbors of Anankes
Literary usage of Anankes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Descriptive Guide to the Best Fiction, British and American by Ernest Albert Baker (1903)
"... and Toilers of th* test as representing Religion, one of the great anankes
with which man is at odds. A grandiose romance, the tirst in which Hugo tried ..."
2. Gestalten und Wandlungen Schweizerischer Dichtung: Zehn Essays by Robert Faesi (1922)
"Gewiß ist es besser, daß ein mittleres Talent in seinen Grenzen bleibe, statt
wie ein Spitteler in die Weltmaschine anankes hinunter, ..."