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  • I shall call these noble leaves 'Apolline' leaves.

    Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

  • So that you must not attach any great botanical importance to the characters of contrasted aspects in leaves, which I wish you to express by the words 'Apolline' and 'Arethusan'; but their mythic importance is very great, and your careful observance of it will help you completely to understand the beautiful Greek fable of Apollo and Daphne.

    Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

  • Paul Sakuma/Associated Press Apolline Arnaud, 12, a neighbor of Mr. Jobs, wrote a message in front of his home in Palo Alto, Calif., on Wednesday.

    In Memory of Steve Jobs 2011

  • In Memory of Steve Jobs Paul Sakuma/Associated Press Apolline Arnaud, 12, wrote a message in front of Steve Jobs's home in Palo Alto, Calif., after word of his death Wednesday.

    Jobs Fans React: 'We Will Miss You Steve' Don Clark 2011

  • If the Aeschylean conception of sōphrosynē can be glossed by the Apolline “Nothing in excess” and “Think mortal thoughts,” the Sophoclean virtue is closer to

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

  • Chilon, Thales, and the rest — applied Apolline moral - ity to the problems of the polis.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

  • Haec autem fémina ab ipsó Apolline docébátur, et voluntátem deí hominibus énúntiábat.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • A. me quoque facundo comitatus Apolline Caesar respiciat, montis neu dedignetur adire, quos et Phoebus amat, quos Iupiter ipse tuetur: in quibus augustos uisurae saepe triumphos90 laurus fructificant uicinaque nascitur arbos.

    A Singing Match Calpurnius 1912

  • Further he was growing out of boy gawkiness into a handsome youth of an Apolline mould, when, on the morning of his eighteenth birthday, he was found dead in his bed, with a bottle of cyanide of potassium on the bed-table to explain why.

    Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

  • Delphic oracle consulted, 323, 324, 326; outbreak of _lascivia_, 324; institutio$1 $2 Apolline games, 326; religious history of last years, 327-329; gratitude to deities, 329; the Magna Mater of Pessinus brought to Rome, 330

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

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