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"Dorian" Quotes from Famous Books

... to examine the position of women in historic Greece are explained in the light of this valuation of the sexual relationship. We are faced at once by a curious contrast; on one hand, we find in Sparta, under a male social organisation, the women of AEolian and Dorian race carrying on and developing the Homeric traditions of freedom, while the Athenian women, on the contrary, are condemned to an almost Oriental seclusion. How these conditions arose becomes clear, when we remember that the prominent idea regulating all the legislation ...

— The Truth About Woman • C. Gasquoine Hartley

... Jimmy Van Dorian, he lives right near the bridge in a little shanty and he's lame and he's a bridge tender. You don't get much for being a bridge tender and mostly old veterans are bridge tenders. Anyway, they don't get much ...

— Roy Blakeley • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... Soft and soothing, as opposed to the Dorian airs, which expressed the rough and harsh element in ...

— MacMillan's Reading Books - Book V • Anonymous

Words linked to "Dorian" : Doris, people, citizenry, Hellene, Greek