Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemione
Literary usage of Hemione
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"... horse is a hemione. This opinion does not appear to us tenable; it is evidently
founded on a ging of the question, because we have so far been ignorant ..."
2. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1866)
"body. They have bred and reproduced to the third generation at the Museum of
Natural History, and are said to be very tractable. The hemione 'or wild ass of ..."
3. Seven Years' Residence in the Great Deserts of North America by Emmanuel Domenech (1860)
"Thus experiments have taught us that the zebra, the hemione, the ass, and the
horse, so similar in their external forms, so widely different in their colour ..."
4. Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon: With Travels in Armenia by Sir Austen Henry Layard, Austin Henry Layard (1853)
"... and not from the examination of specimens, and is characterised by being said
to have larger and more acute ears than the hemione of Pallas. ..."
5. Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York (1857)
"The Lama, the Egyptian Goose, the hemione of Hindostan—that energetic horse,
swift in the race—these are now naturalized in the Jardin des plantes. ..."
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