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from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling Memnon, an Oriental or Ethiopian hero in the Trojan war, slain by Achilles.
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The rank grass waves above those mouldering stones -- the green corn of summer rustles in the breeze, which seems, it its "hollow, solemn memnonian, but saintly swell," to have "swept the field of mortality for
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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