For after her death her body could not be found, but an image of her was discovered standing beside the image of Artemis, and the people bestowed on it the title of Hecaerge or Far-shooter, one of the regular epithets of the goddess.
By whatever disparagingepithets such character may be surrounded, it is in reality the distinguishing feature of a free government under all its forms, whether constitutional monarchy or democracy.
He was down among them, lower than the herd, rolling in vulgar epithets that, attached to one like him, became of monstrous distortion.
Crestow and husband, had very properly furnished a report to the family of the memorable evening; and the hubbub over it, with the epithets applied to Alvan, intimated how he would have been received on a visit to demand her in marriage.
Listen to his colloquies with Jesus and Mary; hear him speaking of the blessed Virgin with such enrapturing sweetness, that he seems to exhaust all the epithets that the liveliest hope and the most pure and tender love can suggest.
Such language is a little delusive, and when I read the epithets of praise which are sometimes lavished, not by the same persons, on Breton and Watson, I ask myself what we are to say of Spenser and Shakespere.
Ayton] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck outepithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school.
Subtle is the most comprehensive of these epithets and implies the finest intellectual quality.
These epithets describe things which give pain or disgust.
Note: Synocha and synochus were used as epithets of two distinct types of fever, but in different senses at different periods.
Upon the whole, it will be necessary to avoid that perpetual repetition of the same epithets which we find in Homer.
The same distinctions obtain when these epithets are figuratively applied.
Such compound epithets usually have an obvious meaning, and since they may be formed at will, only a few of this class are given in the Vocabulary.
To call names, to apply opprobrious epithets to; to call by reproachful appellations.
With one or two exceptions, the epithets mark attributes that exist in the subjects.
His epithets are rarely descriptive of the qualities that exist in the objects to which they are applied.
They bestowed on him the low epithets with which they expressed admiration.
She no longer turned sick and faint when they hissed after her vile Italian epithets that her American or English clients quite failed to understand.
What good do we do the cause of truth by heaping disagreeable epithets on faiths other than our own?
Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets are sweetly varied, like a scholar at the least, but, etc.
It is true that in the absence of an instinctive reaction we can still apply these epithets by an appeal to usage.
Yet in proportion as such conceptions become definite and objective in the mind, they approach aesthetic values, and the use of aesthetic epithets in describing them becomes more constant and literal.
Language has been tortured to find epithets sufficiently strong to paint him in description.
He would ascend, not to the Greek root, but to the English test of the word, and show that a whig baronet had applied the term to the Bank of England with still more offensive epithets than any the President had used.
The double epithets, the recurring epithets of Homer, if rendered into verse, delay and puzzle the reader, as the Greek does not delay or puzzle him.
Descriptive epithets follow the nouns to which they refer: as, a red cross is styled a cross gules.
He had hoped for the appearance of some of the little singers, and had all ready a handful of coin to throw to them, and a few of those ingenious epithets and persuasive arguments by which he had always been successful with the young.
Such works make mention here and there of plants, with epithets or reflections on their mode of flowering, their ripening, their use, etc.
This multitude of names similar to epithets show that the fruit had long been known, but that its taste was very different to that of the sweet orange.
It is rather bold to determine a species of Phaseolus from one or two epithets in an ancient author, when we see how difficult is the distinction of species to modern botanists with the plants under their eyes.
Other authors of the same century gave it epithets showing that it was believed to come from Brazil, or from Canada, or from the Indies, that is to say, America.
On the other hand, we are desired to be as faithful as a dog, as bold as a lion, as tender as a dove; as if the qualities denoted by these epithets were not to be found among ourselves.
The second style, exemplified here by the description of the horses that Mider offers to Eochaid, consists of a series of epithets or of substantives, and is often imitated in modern Irish.
I heard my name associated with epithets of any thing but an endearing description, and, to say the truth, if choice had been granted, I would far rather have been at Jericho than in the front of the hustings at Dreepdaily.
Malarial and muggy though it is, September scarcely merits all the evil epithets that are applied to it.
Six months ago European residents were seeking in vain suitable epithets of disapprobation to apply to the weather; to-day they are trying to discover appropriate words to describe the charm of November.
The epithets of the Catalogue are so accurately descriptive of the country, that they have always been used as tests of the traditions respecting the situations of the places to which they refer.
Some light is also thrown upon the character and habits of nations by the epithets attached to their places of abode.
Again, I think we may trace the near connection between the Pelasgians and the Greek nation in the laudatory epithets with which the former are mentioned by Homer.
Hector, or else Paris, as his heir, were such as called for the highest epithetsof dignity.
Nor is it only upon the epithets that we may rely; but upon the characters, too, of those to whom they are appropriated.
None of the ethical epithets by which these varieties are at present so sharply distinguished from each other will have any virtue left in them.
To withhold such epithets is considered a kind of blasphemy.
It does seem to me, that instead of having my mouth filled with epithets and invectives; instead of drawing the lips of malice back from the teeth of hatred, it seems to me that my eyes would be filled with tears.
It takes something besides epithets and invectives to prove or disprove anything.
Some have dared to brand Julian with the epithets intolerant and persecuting--the man who sought to extirpate persecution and intolerance!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epithets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
