Sentence examples for boreas from inspiring English sources
This icy wind is known as the boreas.
In works of art Boreas was represented as winged, bearded, and powerful; he wears a short, pleated tunic.
The word is from the Greek boreas, "northwind".
He was the son of the god Poseidon and Chione (Snow Girl), daughter of the north wind, Boreas; after various adventures he became king in Thrace but was killed while helping the Eleusinians in their war against Erectheus of Athens.
Boreas, in Greek mythology, the personification of the north wind.
To show friendliness toward the Athenians, Herodotus wrote, Boreas wrecked the fleet of the Persian king Xerxes off the beach Sepias in Thessaly; in return the Athenians built him a sanctuary or altar near the Ilissus and held a festival in his honour.
Kristina Regina Capacity 200 passengers; 4,295 tons, fitness center, Scandinavian cuisine; entered service as the Borea Borea in 1960, refitted and renovated in 2000.
They may have lingered, as hikers inevitably do today, over the operatic views of other Adirondack peaks and of the far upper reaches of the Boreas River to the south and the Cold River to the west.
"That's one of ours," said Michael T. Carr, a 44-year-old bear of a man driving a green S.U.V. headed west on Boreas Road as one of the timber trucks barreled eastward.
Before I know it, I'm hard into pulling a full 360 mid-port – one up on anything Nelson could have managed on HMS Boreas.
BUSINESS DAY An article on Thursday about penalties against the investment bank Rodman & Renshaw and some of its employees for violations of securities rules misidentified one recipient of a memo from Lewis Boreas Fan, an analyst at the bank, regarding his efforts to secure investment banking business.
