river-god

I loved the griffin assault on the castle, and the river-god sequence or whatever that was (they didn't really explain that well).

Sound Off: Prince Caspian - What Did You Think? « FirstShowing.net 2008

"I think it's the river-god, but hush," said Lucy.

Archive 2008-01-01 Arevanye 2008

"I think it's the river-god, but hush," said Lucy.

Loose My Chains Arevanye 2008

Achilles that he should get money out of the Greeks before he assisted them; or the meanness of Achilles himself in taking gifts from Agamemnon; or his requiring a ransom for the body of Hector; or his cursing of Apollo; or his insolence to the river-god

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Minerva is observed leading up Ceres to a river-god, who has his arms round the neck of Pomona; while Mars

The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

We joked that the goblets were consacrated to the service of a local river-god: intricately patterned with fishes and other natural emblems, only the priest of a fairly fanatic sect able to wreak dire vengeance on thieves would afford or risk purchase of these, at a hefty tag of nearly £800 each.

Lyrics quiz answers jinxremoving 2006

At the farther end of the court of this Musaeum, fronting the entrance, is a handsome fountain, with the statue of a river-god reclining on his urn; this is no other than the famous Marforio, so called from its having been found in Martis Fore.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

It was as if she had been wooed by a river-god, who might any time take her to his wondrous halls below a watery heaven.

Adam Bede 2004

When the period of that step comes, then love is proper enough; but up to that — before that — as regards all those preliminary passages which must, we suppose, be necessary — in all those it becomes a young lady to be icy-hearted as a river-god in winter.

Doctor Thorne 2004

Maeon and Kritheus; by others, (a son) of the river-god Meles.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004