Lexicographical Neighbors of Phoebuses
Literary usage of Phoebuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Excursions in the Interior of Russia: Including Sketches of the Character by Robert Bremner (1839)
"... Mercuries, Fawns, Floras, phoebuses—Neptunes and their cars, Ariadnes and
their bulls—long-legged cranes and long-legged nymphs—frogs, gladiators, ..."
2. Joan of Arc, an epic poem by Robert Southey (1812)
"... readers will find no description of armour, no muster-rolls, no geographical
catalogues, lion, tyger, bull, bear and boar similes, phoebuses or Auroras. ..."
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