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Example sentences for "generally represented"

  • She is generally represented as a young woman wearing a buskin and holding a dagger in her hand.

  • He is generally represented as a sleeping child, of great corpulence, with wings.

  • She is generally represented by the poets as sitting in a chariot and opening with her fingers the gates of the east, pouring dew on the earth, and making the flowers grow.

  • He is generally represented as an old man bent with age, and holding a scythe in his right hand.

  • Flora, who typified the season of Spring, is generally represented as a lovely maiden, garlanded with flowers.

  • Poseidon is generally represented as resembling his brother Zeus in features, height, and general aspect; but we miss in the countenance of the sea-god the kindness and benignity which so pleasingly distinguish his mighty brother.

  • Rhea is generally represented wearing a crown of turrets or towers and seated on a throne, with lions crouching at her feet.

  • Hestia is generally represented standing, and in accordance with the dignity and sanctity of her character, always appears fully draped.

  • The sign is, however, generally represented by a cock standing on a bottle.

  • He is generally represented in the costume of a bishop, driving a flock of snakes, toads, and other vermin before him, which he is said to have banished from Ireland.

  • The Good Shepherd is generally represented as a youthful beardless figure in a short Roman tunic and buskins, bearing tenderly the lost sheep which he has found and laid upon his shoulders with rejoicing.

  • It is generally represented drinking at a stream, probably in allusion to the Psalmist's panting after God as the hart after the water-brooks.

  • The suppedaneum, or support for the feet, is generally represented.

  • Daniel in the den is generally represented by a nude figure standing between two lions, with his hands stretched out as if in supplication, and thereby, says St. Gregory, conquering the lions by prayer.

  • He is generally represented with a shell in his hand.

  • Pluto is generally represented as holding a trident with three prongs, and has a key in his hand, to intimate that whoever enters can never return.

  • This god, who is generally represented as fat and jolly, riding on an ass, crowned with flowers, and always intoxicated, could scarcely be considered as a tutor from whom Bacchus was likely to derive much good.

  • The goddess is generally represented riding in a chariot drawn by peacocks, with a diadem on her head, and a scepter in her hand.

  • He is generally represented sitting on the back of a flying eagle.

  • One of the Muses, the patroness of light poetry; she presided over the triumphs and complaints of lovers, and is generally represented as crowned with roses and myrtle, and holding a lyre in her hand.

  • She is generally represented as above, but some poets have described her as rushing through the ranks of war, waving a flaming torch, and exciting the combatants by her cries.

  • He is generally represented as a majestic man with a beard, sitting on a throne of gold and ivory.

  • This goddess is generally represented on ancient monuments, as a large and beautiful woman, wearing a veil.

  • Early in July, 1877, he arrived at Alexandria, and soon unearthed the buried monolith, which he was delighted to find in much better condition than had been generally represented.

  • He is generally represented by the figure of a man with his face concealed under the head of a horned ram.

  • The figure of an obelisk is often used as a hieroglyph, and is generally represented standing on a low base.

  • He is generally represented as a fine majestic figure, with long curling hair and beard, clad in flowing drapery, his redoubtable thunderbolts or scepter in one hand, and a statue of Victory in the other.

  • In works of art this goddess is generally represented as a beautiful maiden, clad in a short hunting dress, armed with a bow, a quiver full of arrows at her side, and a crescent on her well-poised head.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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