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  • Juno's eyes, or Cytherea's breath. '-- and pleasantly thinking of the pretty face of his last love, the blonde Rose, who was at that moment smiling on somebody else in Naples.

    The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Violets, "Dim but sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes or Cytherea's breath" must grow in the grass on which she walked, and lilies and proud flags, purple clad, lift their heads to do her honor, with peonies and poppies, primroses, periwinkles and pale anemone in their train.

    The Bloom of Monticello 1926

  • The benches at either side of the fire-place were invariably crowded; and, from her place on the over-mantel, Cytherea's gaze rested on the vivacious or subdued current of life.

    Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • Going, Lee looked back involuntarily: he hadn't, after all, imagined Cytherea's quality, Mina Raff had recognized it, too; the dance had lost its attraction for him.

    Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • Cytherea's disturbing charm was real, as definite as Fanny's quiet actuality.

    Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • Unless we shut our ears and admit no songs that sing of things as yet unfamiliar to the poets of blue sky and violets dim as Cytherea's eyes, we cannot possibly mistake the lyrical ecstasy of the above passage.

    Rudyard Kipling Palmer, John 1915

  • Unless we shut our ears and admit no songs that sing of things as yet unfamiliar to the poets of blue sky and violets dim as Cytherea's eyes, we cannot possibly mistake the lyrical ecstasy of the above passage.

    Rudyard Kipling John Palmer 1914

  • _ "Violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath."

    The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

  • Sweet Cytherea's winged boy deprives you of your spinning,

    Echoes from the Sabine Farm Roswell Martin Field 1885

  • Hemmed in and distressed, Cytherea's answers to his importunities grew less uniform; they were firm, or wavering, as

    Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884

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