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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Trochilidae .
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Thursday's program even featured a premiere: "Atthis," a half-hour piece for string quartet, double bass, clarinet, bassoon and French horn, spun off from an earlier monodrama for soprano and ensemble based on love poetry by Sappho.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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The Argento Chamber Ensemble performed Georg Friedrich Haas's new "Atthis" on Thursday at the Austrian Cultural Forum.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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And just one month before the Stonewall riots in 1969, Maxine penned the first out lesbian song, "Angry Atthis," as a reaction to the treatment of queers.
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Atthis time of year in this part of the world, the Major League Baseball season is drawing to a close.
Off Topic 2009
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Maximus of Tyre (Dissert. xxiv.) declares that the Eros of Sappho was Socratic and that Gyrinna and Atthis were as
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Atthis time of year in this part of the world, the Major League Baseball season is drawing to a close.
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Atthis time of year in this part of the world, the Major League Baseball season is drawing to a close.
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Longinus eulogises the (a term applied only to carnal love) of the far-famed Ode to Atthis: —
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There are more than 252 species of birds, 40% of which are migratory, including 12 migratory ducks and approximately 36 endemic birds including the bumblebee hummingbird, (Atthis heloisa) and the Mexican woodnymph (Thalurania ridgwayi).
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Atthis momenta man rushed from the Tatar lines as if he were a prisoner escaping, and he dashed into the middle of the Polish troops, shouting in good Polish:
Poland Michener, James 1983
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