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  • "Admetos," she says, "has been kept back by the noisy quarrel from seeing into the truth of his own conduct, as he was on the point of doing, for 'with the low strife comes the little mind.'"

    The Poetry Of Robert Browning 1874

  • After the mourning friends have spoken their words of consolation to the bereaved husband, the last word being, "Dead, thy wife -- living, the love she left", Admetos "turned on the comfort, with no tears, this time.

    An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869

  • But next to Anash, another woman had pulled out her crocheting (a far cry from the stiff formality of the official functions she'd had to endure on Admetos), a man with eyes the color of the sea on Christmas had joked with her, and she still had a sunset to look forward to.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • She'd had just over three weeks to learn the Mejan language, one week on Admetos after getting her new assignment and two weeks in transit.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • It hadn't been any different on Admetos, but the beings there had looked like ants.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • Christmas had slightly lower gravity than Earth, but Toni had grown up on Mars, and it certainly felt more like home than Admetos had.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • But to Toni, who had spent two years now on Admetos among what the human members of AIRA referred to as the giant ants, they didn't appear very alien, or at least only pleasantly so.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • So once again the fair Alkestis looked lovingly upon him, as she said, "There is no darkness for me in the land of Hades, if only I die for thee," and even as she spake the spell passed from Admetos, and the strength of the daughter of Pelias ebbed slowly away.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • So the sound of mirth and revelry echoed through the hall, and the red wine was poured forth in honor of Zeus and all the gods, each by his name, but the name of Artemis was forgotten, and her wrath burned sore against the house of Admetos.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • Admetos to do in other lands the bidding of the fair mean Eurystheus.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

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