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Example sentences for "tellus"

Lexicographically close words:
tellure; telluric; telluride; telluris; tellurium; telpher; telpherage; tels; telson; telt
  1. Through gate after massive gate they went, until finally they were out in open space, shooting toward distant Tellus at the maximum acceleration of which their small craft was capable.

  2. According to the observatories we're in clear ether, but I wouldn't trust them from Tellus to Luna.

  3. They'll do--about as fine a couple of kids as old Tellus ever produced.

  4. All the pirates between Tellus and Andromeda couldn't take me after this--I've got too much to live for.

  5. Tellus the goddess of the earth, by whose power plants potent for enchantment are produced.

  6. And so he drank deep of pleasure, and then it fell on a day He gazed on the wife of Tellus and marked her out for his prey.

  7. Tellus went back to his smithy; he reeled like a drunken man; His heart was riven with anguish; his brain was brooding a plan.

  8. The morrow was come, and Tellus swiftly stole up the hill.

  9. But Tellus answered bluntly; "No, young Athenian; I like your sentiments, and will not touch your coin.

  10. As the travellers seated themselves beneath the shelter of the vines, Tellus asked, "What news from Athens?

  11. Not for this crime but for a minor one, Tellus is sentenced by Cynthia to imprisonment under the care of Corsites.

  12. Dipsas and Tellus are summoned before Cynthia, who now hears for the first time the story of Endymion's devotion to her.

  13. More entertaining to the reader than either the devotion of Endymion or the mischievous jealousy of Tellus is the character of Sir Tophas.

  14. Let's snap back to Tellus and find out, right now.

  15. Again to cleanse the planet Tellus of dangerous radioactives and of too-noxious forms of life is of course a simple matter.

  16. On the other three, too, of course, but Tellus was so far and away the worst of the lot that the excellence of the work stands out.

  17. Indeed, Gharlane knew, as he drove his immense ship of space toward Sol, that he would find Tellus inhabited by peoples little above savagery.

  18. The planet Tellus circled its sun some twenty hundred times.

  19. He meets some friends at the temple of Tellus by appointment with the sacristan, "ab aeditimo, ut dicere didicimus a patribus nostris; ut corrigimur ab recentibus urbanis, ab aedituo.

  20. I have also received a very old letter, but which was late in coming into my hands, in which you remind me about the temple of Tellus and the colonnade of Catulus.

  21. At the temple of Tellus I have even got your statue placed.

  22. But who do you think ranks next to Tellus in happiness?

  23. Jupiter is the sky or heaven itself, with all its manifestations of activity; Tellus is Mother Earth, full of active productive power.

  24. The curse (for such it really is) is to be witnessed by Tellus and Iuppiter, and the celebrant points down and up respectively in invoking them, as also in the devotio of Curtis in the Forum (Livy vii.

  25. Technically, it must have been a sacrifice to Tellus and the Manes, like the devotio of Decius, and like that also, it probably had in it a substratum of magic.

  26. One deity seems to stand alone in the list--Tellus or Terra Mater, Mother Earth.

  27. The best account of Tellus is in Wissowa, R.

  28. He explained that Tellus was a good man, and left a family of good sons; that he passed his life beyond the reach of want, and died gloriously in battle for his country.

  29. He says that Tellus was fortunate because of his good luck, his virtue, and his noble children; but yet he makes no mention of him or of his children in his poetry, and he never was a man of any renown, or held any high office.

  30. Tellus determines to be revenged, and, by the aid of a sorceress Dipsas, sends the youth into a deep sleep from which no one can awaken him.

  31. The solution of the allegory lies mainly in the interpretation of Tellus' character, and I cannot but agree with Mr Bond when he decides that Tellus is Mary Queen of Scots.

  32. But both these are minor characters who therefore receive no development, and if we look at the more important personages of Lyly's portrait gallery, we must agree with Mr Bond[131] that Tellus is the best.

  33. These Titans are the children of Tellus and Coelus, the earth and sky, thus representing, as it were, the first birth of form and personality from formless nature.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tellus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.