Eros See Cupid Erytheia, island Eryx, a mount, haunt of Venus Esepus, river in Paphlagonia Estrildis, wife of Locrine, supplanting divorced Guendolen Eteocles, son of Oeipus and Jocasta Etruscans, ancient people of Italy, Etzel, king of the Huns Euboic Sea, where Hercules threw Lichas, who brought him the poisoned shirt of Nessus Eude, king of Aquitaine, ally of Charles Martel Eumaeus, swineherd of Aeeas Eumenides, also called Erinnyes, and by the Romans Furiae or Diraae, the Avenging Deities, See Furies Euphorbus, a Trojan, killed by Menelaus Euphros'yne, one of the Graces Europa, daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor, by Zeus the mother of Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon Eurus, the East wind Euyalus, a gallant Trojan soldier, who with Nisus entered the Grecian camp, both being slain, Eurydice, wife of Orpheus, — from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
haunt of Venus Esepus river
Eros See Cupid Erytheia, island Eryx, a mount, haunt of Venus Esepus, river in Paphlagonia Estrildis, wife of Locrine, supplanting divorced Guendolen Eteocles, son of Oeipus and Jocasta Etruscans, ancient people of Italy. — from Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch
half of Vishnu exceedingly righteous
And then when tbe six seasons had rolled away after the completion of the sacrifice, in the twelfth month, on the ninth lunar day, under the influence of the Punarvasu asterism, when the Sun, the Moon, Saturn , Jupiter , and Venus were at Arius , Capricorn , Libra , Cancer , and Pisces , —and when Jupiter had arisen with the Moon at Cancer, Kaucalyā gave birth to that lord of the universe, bowed unto by all the worlds, Rāma, the descendant of Ikshwāku, furnished with excellent marks,—the one half of Vishnu,— exceedingly righteous, with rosy eyes, and mighty arms, and crimson nether lip, and endowed with a voice like the sound of a kettledrum. — from The Rāmāyana, Volume One. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam by Valmiki
his own voice endlessly repeating
So now Calhoun listened to his own voice endlessly repeating a call that should have been answered immediately. — from Med Ship Man by Murray Leinster
his own voice Eric roused
Lulled by the drone of his own voice, Eric roused with a start to hear the Duchess of Ross asking her son whether he had room for her in his car, as she had to be at another party by eleven. — from The Secret Victory by Stephen McKenna
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