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  • And straightway on a sudden there called to them in the midst of their course, speaking with a human voice, the beam of the hollow ship, which Athena had set in the centre of the stem, made of Dodonian oak.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • And straightway on a sudden there called to them in the midst of their course, speaking with a human voice, the beam of the hollow ship, which Athena had set in the centre of the stem, made of Dodonian oak.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • Athena had set in the centre of the stem, made of Dodonian oak.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • Herodotus, in an incontrovertible passage, alludes to the Egyptians as "black and curly-haired" [4] -- a peculiarly significant statement from one used to the brunette Mediterranean type; in another passage, concerning the fable of the Dodonian Oracle, he again alludes to the swarthy color of the

    The Negro 1915

  • They are curiously oracular, like the whisperings of those fabled Dodonian oaks of his fatherland; they heave with a darkly-virile mysticism.

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • The revival of mystical philosophy, and, moreover, of transcendental experiment, which is prosecuted in secret to a far greater extent than the public can possibly be aware, has, however, set many old oracles chattering, and they are more voluble at the present moment than the great Dodonian grove.

    Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer Arthur Edward Waite 1899

  • When the Winds ruffled the Dodonian Oak, [Latin: 540]

    The Third Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley Being his Six Books of Plants 1689

  • From a long Honored Ancient Lineage came, who in the fam'd Dodonian Grove first spoke,

    The Third Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley Being his Six Books of Plants 1689

  • Some of us doubted that it was the Dodonian kettle, or the portico called

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • Some of us doubted that it was the Dodonian kettle, or the portico called Heptaphone in Olympia, or the eternal humming of the colossus raised on Memnon’s tomb in Thebes of Egypt, or the horrid din that used formerly to be heard about a tomb at Lipara, one of the Aeolian islands.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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