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- proper noun A female
given name , a rare spelling variant ( or transliteration from Greek ) ofCassandra .
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Examples
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Kassandra is the King of the Seaborn's granddaughter.
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Kassandra is the King of the Seaborn's granddaughter.
March 2009 2009
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Here there are no supernatural agents at all, unless you call Kassandra's occasional prophecy such.
Archive 2008-11-01 Blue Tyson 2008
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Well, sure, not since we deleted the "Everything Kassandra is Looking For" category.
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If you've played the game, the name Kassandra might ring a bell.
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'Kassandra', and with the line, "All earth and air seem only burning fire, 'from Webster's' Duchess of Malfi ': --
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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Her mother, also named Kassandra, has largely abandoned the little girl, who lives in a big house near the palace, where the king and queen are prisoners, like Kassandra herself.
Entrancing Tales Of Dislocation Jerome Charyn 2011
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Margarita Karapanou was a modernist and a master of the macabre, as shown in "Kassandra and the Wolf," a morbid fairy tale recited by a 6-year-old girl who stutters: "The words scratch my throat like shoes."
Entrancing Tales Of Dislocation Jerome Charyn 2011
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The work that resulted from her forays into Greek myth, in novels such as Kassandra (1983) and Medea (1996), was instantly recognisable to friends in the west such as Margaret Atwood, who penned the introduction to Medea, observing that "the heroes are really like devils, and the victims are the most important".
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We move in and out of nightmare with Kassandra, who guides us through all the dangers and delusions that might trap any precocious little girl.
Entrancing Tales Of Dislocation Jerome Charyn 2011
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