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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
Valkyries .
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Examples
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So it was with a light heart and my hat on three hairs that I found myself strolling under the famous lime trees to the Brandenburg Thor a few weeks later, taking a long slant at the Thier Garten in the June sunshine, and marvelling at the Valkyrian proportions of German women - which awoke memories of my youthful grapplings with that blubbery baroness in Munich ...
Watershed 2010
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Sarah Bernhardt, and the poetess and composer Augusta Holmes with the “Valkyrian” blond mane that contrasted with the jet-black hair of Emma Calvé, from whom beauty radiated.83
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Sarah Bernhardt, and the poetess and composer Augusta Holmes with the “Valkyrian” blond mane that contrasted with the jet-black hair of Emma Calvé, from whom beauty radiated.83
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Sarah Bernhardt, and the poetess and composer Augusta Holmes with the “Valkyrian” blond mane that contrasted with the jet-black hair of Emma Calvé, from whom beauty radiated.83
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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So it was with a light heart and my hat on three hairs that I found myself strolling under the famous lime trees to the Brandenburg Thor a few weeks later, taking a long slant at the Thier Garten in the June sunshine, and marvelling at the Valkyrian proportions of German women - which awoke memories of my youthful grapplings with that blubbery baroness in Munich ...
Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999
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A great Valkyrian chorus of shouts swelled out suddenly along the line, and, looking up, I saw General
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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When she saw him she held him fiercely in her arms, her big frame aching with a Valkyrian ardor to lift the brave warrior on a winged horse and carry him away from the earth.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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New York State Police Investigator Jeffrey Moore said more than 6 feet of water filled the woman's cottage at the Valkyrian Motel.
NY Daily News LILLIAN RIZZO 2011
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But they just about did with a huge metal bedstead strewn with Valkyrian paraphernalia (breast plates, helmets and so one) as well as a large alarm clock.
Gramophone James Jolly 2010
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She then shrieked with a Valkyrian savagery pitched between for 'Hang You From The Heavens' as she rose up onto the frontstage monitor, throwing her black hair backward with a jerk of her neck as she spat out each phrase.
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