Sentence examples for classical names from inspiring English sources
Characters are given classical names like Narcissa, Persephone and Leda.
Was Psyche (black servants in Britain were often given classical names) a boxer, and is he here commemorated for his prowess in the ring?
François-Ambroise also abandoned the use of classical names such as "parisienne" and "petit romain" for type size and instead distinguished types by their size as measured in points (e.g., 12-point or 24-point type).
Hundreds of dyes were well known before the first edition of the Colour Index was published in 1924, and their original or classical names are still in wide use.
The major classical names this year include pianists András Schiff and Daniil Trifonov, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, violinist Maxim Vengerov and soprano Anja Kampe; while orchestras include the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Russian National Orchestra.
They said that The New Yorker did not use the naked "s" apostrophe except with classical names like Jesus, Aeschylus, and Socrates; and even French names ending in a silent "s" were given the apostrophe "s," as in "François's," "les jeunesses's," "Epesses's" — also as in "Amiens's hidden cache" and "le français's frank mustache".
The river's classical name, Maeander (whence the English meander), is derived from the winding course of its lower reaches.
It seems that Orazio had ambition for his daughter – after all, he gave her a striking, classical name.
We never forget that the classical name for the god of love lies inside the medical term for what Calliope/Cal is.
Along universal lines, it has affirmed a God who created and rules the entire world and who at the end of history will redeem all Israel (the classical name for the Jewish people), all humankind, and indeed the whole world.
Fuchsine was found to be a mixture of pararosaniline, C.I. Basic Red 9, and a homolog having a methyl group (−CH3) ortho to one of the amino groups (−NH2); its classical name is magenta (C.I. Basic Violet 14).
