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  • "I'm the manager clearly, but the leadership and the presidency of the board of directors is Hebe's," he said.

    Mothers on the March Again in Argentina—Into Scandal Matt Moffett 2011

  • "I'm the manager clearly, but the leadership and the presidency of the board of directors is Hebe's," he said.

    Mothers on the March Again in Argentina—Into Scandal Matt Moffett 2011

  • Balthazar and Hebe's marriage is frayed by grief over their son, who died years earlier at the age of 11.

    "The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise," by Julia Stuart 2010

  • The bride's resplendent costume and surpassing beauty put the blush upon the Queen of Sheba, made Hebe's effulgence fade as the moon before the sun; and as the long courtly train of knights errant and ladies-in-waiting passed the populace, they presented a regal spectacle, never equalled since the proud Cleopatra sailed down the perfumed lotus-bearing Nile in her gilded pageant to meet Marc Antony, while all the world stood agape at the unheard-of triumph.

    In Our Town William Allen White 1906

  • Olympian gods and cheered with a draught of Hebe's joy-giving nectar.

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

  • When Christiana at the Palace Beautiful is shown one of the apples that Eve ate of, and Jacob's ladder with some angels ascending upon it, it incites one to turn to that marvellously complete “Virtuoso's Collection,” [Footnote: Mosses from an Old Manse, Vol. II.] where Hawthorne has preserved Shelley's skylark and the steed Rosinante, with Hebe's cup and many another impalpable marvel, in the warden-ship of the Wandering Jew.

    A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876

  • Rosinante, with Hebe's cup and many another impalpable marvel, in the warden-ship of the Wandering Jew.

    A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874

  • Moreover, she liked a dark man, and Scudamore was fair and fresh as a rose called Hebe's Cup in June.

    Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War 1862

  • He who could mistrust poison in this wine would mistrust consumption in Hebe's cheek.

    The Confidence-Man 1857

  • Not blonde that might intimate change and early decay, but fair and blooming as Hebe's.

    Married or single? 1857

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