Lexicographical Neighbors of Proteuses
Literary usage of Proteuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1899)
"In a word, they are proteuses, who change their appearance every moment; and it
should not be supposed that they lack either generalship or courage. ..."
2. The Zurich Letters: Comprising the Correspondence of Several English Bishops by Hastings Robinson, John Hunter, Parker Society (Great Britain) (1847)
"But oh! like true proteuses, they now make subterfuges, and shamefully desert
us, under I know not what pretence. We know not whence this change of ..."
3. Italian Romance Writers by Joseph Spencer Kennard (1906)
"Many a modern psychologist has required an entire volume to depict the complexities
of one of these modern proteuses; Matilde Serao boldly introduces a ..."
4. The Zurich Letters: Comprising the Correspondence of Several English Bishops by Hastings Robinson, Parker Society (Great Britain) (1847)
"But oh! like true proteuses, they now make subterfuges, and shamefully desert
us, under I know not what pretence. AVe know not whence this change of ..."
5. Travels in the United States, Etc., During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"... of all the colours of the prism, scarfs of all the shapes and patterns which
Proteus, or Mrs. and the Miss proteuses could have by possibility desired. ..."
6. Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy by Vernon Lee (1908)
"... insolent, serious, jesting, unseizable proteuses—were saving the Italian lower
classes from the rate of their Spanish fellow-sufferers, I Yes, ..."
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