He can never forget the magnificent dash back into the wide, ugly, swollen stream made by Captain Edward L. King of General Lawton’s staff, as he spurred his horse in, followed by several troopers who had responded to his call for mounted volunteers to accompany him in an effort to save the lives of the men who went down. — from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount
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JUPITER CAPITOLINUS, temple of, preserving the Sibylline books JUSTICE, See THEMIS K KADYRIATH, advises King Arthur KAI, son of Kyner KALKI, tenth avatar of Vishnu KAY, Arthur's steward and a knight KEDALION, guide of Orion KERMAN, desert of KICVA, daughter of Gwynn Gloy KILWICH, son of Kilydd KILYDD, son of Prince Kelyddon, of Wales KNEPH, spirit or breath KNIGHTS, training and life of KRIEMHILD, wife of Siegfried KRISHNA, eighth avatar of Vishnu, Hindu deity of fertility in nature and mankind KYNER, father of Kav KYNON, son of Clydno L LABYRINTH, the enclosed maze of passageways where roamed the Minotaur of Crete, killed by Theseus with aid of Ariadne LACHESIS, one of the Fates (which See) LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN, tale told by Kynon LAERTES, father of Ulysses LAESTRYGONIANS, savages attacking Ulysses LAIUS, King of Thebes LAMA, holy man of Thibet LAMPETIA, daughter of Hyperion LAOC'OON, a priest of Neptune, in Troy, who warned the Trojans against the Wooden Horse (which See), but when two serpents came out of the sea and strangled him and his two sons, the people listened to the Greek spy Sinon, and brought the fatal Horse into the town LAODAMIA, daughter of Acastus and wife of Protesilaus LAODEGAN, King of Carmalide, helped by Arthur and Merlin LAOMEDON, King of Troy LAPITHAE, Thessalonians, whose king had invited the Centaurs to his daughter's wedding but who attacked them for offering violence to the bride LARES, household deities LARKSPUR, flower from the blood of Ajax LATINUS, ruler of Latium, where Aeneas landed in Italy LATMOS, Mount, where Diana fell in love with Endymion LATONA, mother of Apollo LAUNCELOT, the most famous knight of the Round Table LAUSUS, son of Mezentius, killed by Aeneas LAVINIA, daughter of Latinus and wife of Aeneas LAVINIUM, Italian city named for Lavinia LAW, See THEMIS LEANDER, a youth of Abydos, who, swimming the Hellespont to see Hero, his love, was drowned LEBADEA, site of the oracle of Trophomus LEBYNTHOS, Aegean island LEDA, Queen of Sparta, wooed by Jupiter in the form of a swan LEIR, mythical King of Britain, original of Shakespeare's Lear LELAPS, dog of Cephalus LEMNOS, large island in the Aegean Sea, sacred to Vulcan LEMURES, the spectres or spirits of the dead LEO, Roman emperor, Greek prince LETHE, river of Hades, drinking whose water caused forgetfulness LEUCADIA, a promontory, whence Sappho, disappointed in love, was said to have thrown herself into the sea LEUCOTHEA, a sea goddess, invoked by sailors for protection (See Ino) LEWIS, son of Charlemagne LIBER, ancient god of fruitfulness LIBETHRA, burial place of Orpheus LIBYA, Greek name for continent of Africa in general LIBYAN DESERT, in Africa LIBYAN OASIS LICHAS, who brought the shirt of Nessus to Hercules LIMOURS, Earl of LINUS, musical instructor of Hercules LIONEL, knight of the Round Table LLYR, King of Britain LOCRINE, son of Brutus in Albion, king of Central England LOEGRIA, kingdom of (England) — from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
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It hardly seems possible that with an eye single to the integrity of the larder she could ever look kindly on the blandishments of his sex, or, indeed, be exposed to them. — from Colonel Starbottle's Client by Bret Harte
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