Phaeacia
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- Phaeacian noun
Example Sentences
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Nicean barks: the Greek ships that bore the wanderer, Ulysses, from Phaeacia to his home.
From Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier by Carhart, Margaret Spraque
Our kingdom of Phaeacia, as you know, is chiefly rich in shipping.
From The Adventures of Ulysses by Lamb, Charles
The sight of high Phaeacia soon we lost, And skimm'd along Epirus' rocky coast.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
Seventeen days he held his course, and on the eighteenth the coast of Phaeacia was in sight.
From The Adventures of Ulysses by Lamb, Charles
Five Pieces of Runic Poetry, 73 n, 141 n Phaeacia, Odysseus in, Bossu's criticism, 31 Pindar, his treatment of myths, 43 Poitiers, William IX.,
From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by Ker, W. P.
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