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Definition of Phoebes
1. phoebe [n] - See also: phoebe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phoebes
Literary usage of Phoebes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art-literature Readers by Eulalie Osgood Grover, Frances Elizabeth Chutter (1909)
"Then the second one thought it all out, and he was the Wisest of all the phoebes.
He simply knew it all, and he knew that he knew. ..."
2. Coryat's Crudities: Hastily Gobled Up in Five Moneths Travells in France by Thomas Coryate, George Coryate (1905)
"This makes the learn'd of late in forren parts Finde phoebes face so full of
wennes and warts. Explicit Joannes Harrington de Bathe. ..."
3. The Summit of the Years by John Burroughs (1913)
"The swallows evidently look upon the phoebes as intruders. Maybe the fact that
the phoebes have appropriated a swallow's last year's nest rankles a little. ..."
4. The Summit of the Years by John Burroughs (1913)
"The swallows evidently look upon the phoebes as intruders. Maybe the fact that
the phoebes have appropriated a swallow's last year's nest rankles a little. ..."
5. The English Language: An Introduction to the Principles which Govern Its by Frederick Manley, William Nicholas Hailmann (1902)
"The phoebes sought a new home, that they might have peace. Here the clause, that
they might have peace, expresses purpose. It tells for what end or purpose ..."
6. The Wilson Bulletin by Wilson Ornithological Club, Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Wilson Ornithological Society (1904)
"In two or three days the finches left Then the phoebes built a fine symmetrical
nest of hair and wool over the finches' rough foundation. ..."
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