Even so Odysseus was fain to draw nigh to the fair-tressed maidens, all naked as he was, such need had come upon him.
Such wiles as hers we have never yet heard that any even of the women of old did know, of those that aforetime were fair-tressed Achaean ladies, Tyro, and Alcmene, and Mycene with the bright crown.
But in your sight I will not bathe, for I am ashamed to make me naked in the company of fair-tressed maidens.
Thereon I wept and wailed, in a dream though it was, and around me were gathered the fair-tressed Achaean women as I made piteous lament, for that the eagle had slain my geese.
But when the fair-tressed Dawn had at last brought the full light of the third day, we set up the masts and hoisted the white sails and sat us down, while the wind and the helmsman guided the ships.
So I halted in the portals of the fair-tressed goddess; there I stood and called aloud and the goddess heard my voice, who presently came forth and opened the shining doors and bade me in, and I went with her heavy at heart.
Whilom mine head was sleek with tressed hayre, My laughing eyne did shoot out love's alarms: E'en KATE did deemen me the fairest swain, When erst I won this girdle on the plain.
With thee lead a buxom band; Bring fantastic-footed Joy, With Sport that yellow-tressed boy.
Rich-tressed Nemesis once gave her birth when she had been joined in love with Zeus the king of the gods by harsh violence.
For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos and rich-tressed Selene and tireless Helios who is like the deathless gods.
There the son of Cronos used to lie with the rich-tressed nymph, unseen by deathless gods and mortal men, at dead of night while sweet sleep should hold white-armed Hera fast.
And they, even gold-tressed Leto and wise Zeus, rejoice in their great hearts as they watch their dear son playing among the undying gods.
Meanwhile the rich-tressed Graces and cheerful Seasons dance with Harmonia and Hebe and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other by the wrist.
And ofte tyme this was hir manere, To gon y-tressed with hir heres clere 810 Doun by hir coler at hir bak bihinde, Which with a threde of gold she wolde binde.
Hail, ye children of Zeus and fair-tressed Leto, anon will I be mindful of you and of another hymn.
First he roused Iris of the golden wings to speed forth and call the fair- tressed Demeter, the lovesome in beauty.
Thereon he called into the market-place the many people, and bade them make a rich temple, and an altar to fair-tressed Demeter, upon the jutting rock.
Him did the fair-tressed nymphs foster, receiving him from the king and father in their bosoms, and needfully they nurtured him in the glens of Nyse.
Therein was Cronion wont to embrace the fair-tressed nymph in the deep of night, when sweet sleep held white-armed Hera, the immortal Gods knowing it not, nor mortal men.
For she sat on the crest of Olympus beneath the golden clouds, by the wile of white-armed Hera, who held her afar in jealous grudge, because even then fair-tressed Leto was about bearing her strong and noble son.
At this, stirred deep by her son's cruel pain, Venus his mother plucked from Cretan Ida a stalk of dittamy with downy leaves and bright-tressed flowers, the plant not unknown to wild goats when winged arrows are fast in their body.
But to him only who first hath plucked the golden-tressed fruitage from the tree is it given to enter the hidden places of the earth.
The eager charioteers stand round and pat their chests with clapping hollowed hands, and comb their tressed manes.
But one he readily found, on the left of the dolorous battle, goodly Alexandros, the lord of fair-tressed Helen, heartening his comrades and speeding them to war.
Achilles, the child of fair-tressed Thetis, will first be smitten by my spear, and lose his life?
As he is identified with sunlight, so is she, his fair-tressed sister, with the chaste brilliance of the moon.
But before you nought will I wash me, for shame I have indeed, Amidst of fair-tressed damsels to be all bare of weed.
But she is not a fair-tressed being who flees from her lover in a series of animal disguises.
The Angels tresses to her tressed hayre, The Galixia to her more then white.
Ile binde her then with my torne-tressed haire, And racke her with a thousand holy wishes; Then, on a place prepared for her there, Ile execute her with a thousand kisses.
It was a single line: Phoebus long-tressed the plague-cloud shall dispel.
Some fair-tressed ancestor back in the past must have qualified his blood from the veins of an Irish captive; in no other way could one account for those locks, and for her eyes that were of the grayish blue of iris petals.
Felicity tossed her golden tressed head and tried to look angry, but made a dismal failure of it.
But all about us were shadows; and the weird little tale, told in a voice fraught with mystery and pathos, had peopled them for us with furtive folk in belt and wampum, and dark-tressed Indian maidens.
Stretched on the earth thereby was that dread spear, Long as the tall-tressed pines of Pelion, Still breathing out the reek of Hector's blood.
Straightway to tall-tressed Ida's leafy glades The sons of Atreus sent swift messengers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tressed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
