Lexicographical Neighbors of Hylas
Literary usage of Hylas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"IN the crimson sunsets of the spring, Children, have you heard the hylas pipe,
... Listen, children, for so sweet a cry, Listen till you hear the hylas sing ..."
2. Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1911)
"hylas. You were represented in last night's conversation as one who ... hylas.
What! Can anything be more fantastical, more repugnant to common sense, ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"hylas STORM-WEARIED Argo slept upon the water. No cloud was seen; ... said young
and rosy hylas: •The seas were rough, and long the way from Colchis. ..."
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