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The pleiades are named Cajupal_, or the constellation of six; the antarctic cross Meleritho_, the Constellation of four, and so on.— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
You take away from English poetry one of its pleiades, and bereave it of a companionship more intimate than that of the nearest neighborhood of the stars above.— A Walk from London to John O'Groat's
Upon that mystic pleiades of flame— Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions
What is it but your duty to hasten to take your place in the succession of pleiades that rise from generation to generation?— Lost Illusions
"M. de Balzac belonged to that potent generation of writers of the nineteenth century who came after Napoleon, just as the illustrious pleiades of the seventeenth century came after Richelieu, and in the development of civilization a law caused the domination of thought to succeed the domination of the sword.— International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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