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Heliconian   Listen
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Heliconian  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to Helicon. "Heliconian honey."
2.
(Zool.) Like or pertaining to the butterflies of the genus Heliconius.





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"Heliconian" Quotes from Famous Books



... fierce onset at a stroke repress'd. 490 Hippodamas his weapon next received Within his spine, while with a leap he left His steeds and fled. He, panting forth his life, Moan'd like a bull, by consecrated youths Dragg'd round the Heliconian King,[10] who views 495 That victim with delight. So, with loud moans The noble warrior sigh'd his soul away. Then, spear in hand, against the godlike son Of Priam, Polydorus, he advanced. Not yet his father ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer
... hard to read a masterpiece as it seems to a Parisian boulevardier to live in a quiet country. Until a man can truly enjoy a draft of clear water bubbling from a mountain side, his taste is in an unwholesome state. And so he who finds the Heliconian spring insipid should look to the state of his nerves. Putting aside the iced air of the difficult mountain tops of epic, tragedy, or psalm, there are some simple pieces which may serve as an unerring test of a healthy or a vicious taste for imaginative work. ...
— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)
... rather a drug on the market up here. It's just a side-line. For a living I clean shoes at the 'Elight' Barbershop—I, who have lingered on the sunny slopes of Parnassus, and quenched my soul-thirst at the Heliconian ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service


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