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  • What matter for the arrow-head, illegible stuff? give us the placid grinning kings, twanging their jolly bows over their rident horses, wounding those good-humored enemies, who tumble gayly off the towers, or drown, smiling, in the dimpling waters, amidst the anerithmon gelasma of the fish.

    John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character 2006

  • The sea rolled afar and all around, and sparkled before him under the sun's rays with that infinite laughter, that [Greek: anaerithmon gelasma] of which Aeschylus spoke in his deep love of the salt sea.

    Cord and Creese James De Mille

  • If, therefore, Catullus had in his mind the Greek passage, it shows his idea of the [Greek: anêrithmon gelasma].

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

  • [Greek: anêrithmon gelasma] of old Æschylus; but what was his Ægean or even his Mare Magnum to the free and unfettered Atlantic?

    My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

  • _Anerithmon gelasma_ was the exact description, more easily felt than translated; but close to the North Bar buoy, in deep water, and just outside the Brake Sand, there projected from out of the smiling sea the grim stern spectacle of the masts of a barque whose hull lay deep down on its sandy bed.

    Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

  • Immeasurable Love, of the Eternal Pity; though it seemed hardly more human than the play of kits and puppies, or than the _anerithmon gelasma_ (the soulless, uncontrollable titter) of the tossed spring spray, or the blue, breezy ripple, for which overhaul your _Prometheus_, master Tom, and when found, make a note of it. '

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • Upton had just been telling Eric the splendid phrase, "anerhithmon gelasma ponton", which he had stumbled upon in an Aeschylus lesson that morning, and they were trying which would hit on the best rendering of it.

    Eric, or Little by Little 1867

  • Correggio is content with fixing on his canvas the [Greek: anêrithmon gelasma], the many-twinkling laughter of light in motion, rained down through fleecy clouds or trembling foliage, melting into half-shadows, bathing and illuminating every object with a soft caress.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

  • The [Greek: pontiôn te kumatôn anêrithmon gelasma] is very rare.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

  • The [Greek: pontiôn te kumatôn anêrithmon gelasma] is very rare.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

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