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Sentences starting with pollux
- Pollux had been working for a long time with zeal and pleasure, but at last the steward's snoring had begun to disturb him. [10]
- Pollux had spoken with much warmth, but Selene's last words startled him and checked the effervescence of his feelings. [10]
- Pollux will be the first among his fellow-artists, and it has been my privilege to discover this new star--the eighth artist whose merit I have detected while he was still unknown. [10]
- Pollux at first sat a while on a bench in the garden, but soon sprang up and paced with long steps the path he had previously trodden with Arsinoe. [10]
- Pollux had passed quite as bad an evening as the Emperor. [10]
- Pollux had unhesitatingly owned to having taken the silver quiver and to having been very angry at his master's accusation. [10]
- Pollux was out of the way, but I laid my hand at once on his work; the young master must execute it immediately in marble. [10]
- Pollux at once led the favorite into a side room of the little house, with a northern aspect; here on a table lay the wax and the smaller implements which belonged to himself and which he had brought home last evening. [10]
- Pollux has done his share of the work very well, and I have already devoted an hour's work to it, which has improved it. [10]
- Pollux now used his fingers and modelling tools more calmly; his gaze was less wistful and he began to talk again. [10]
Sentences ending with pollux
- Titianus during all this festive season was unluckily suffering from an attack of old-standing breathlessness, and he also had his hands full; at the same time he did his best in helping Pontius in seeking out the sculptor Pollux. [10]
- He gave me that ring with the portraits of Castor and Pollux. [10]
- I warned him more than once for getting young horses into a fret, and I'm willing to lay a ten-pound note that he angered Pollux. [9]
- And is that man one of your creed, who in Constantinople adores Tyche and the Dioscuri Castor and Pollux? [10]
- She felt as if she had come out of a hot bath, and since her father had roused her she seemed to hear, again and again, the sound of the inspiriting music which she had followed arm in arm with Pollux. [10]
- It had no doubt been engraved by Teuker, the brother of Pollux. [10]
- Mr. Carvel has come to buy your horse Pollux. [9]
- With a deep breath the artist turned full on the steward's house, and immediately a clear merry voice called out: "What, tall Pollux! [10]
- Arsinoe was up betimes on the following morning; much embarrassed by all the splendor that surrounded her, she walked up and down her room thinking of Pollux. [10]
- At their head, among other acquaintances, came Teuker, the gem-cutter, the younger brother of Pollux. [10]
Short sentences using pollux
- Pollux has offended him deeply. [10]
- Pollux did not disturb her. [10]
More example sentences with the word pollux in them
- How often they would see Pollux returning from the distant city whither he had probably fled-from Rome, or even from Athens--crowned with laurels and rich in treasure. [10]
- Once, when Paulina, with tears in her eyes had spoken to her of her lost daughter, Arsinoe had been softened and following the impulse of her heart, had confided to her that she loved Pollux the sculptor and hoped to be his wife. [10]
- A cup of wine, Pollux, for me and your father. [10]
- In that small white house must the fair pale Selene be sleeping, but though he rowed hither and thither, backwards and forwards, he could not succeed in discovering the window of which Pollux had spoken. [10]
- For those who were looking at her were the chief citizens of Alexandria; they stood on the stage, and among them stood kind tall Pollux, waving his hand to her. [10]
- For a whole week Pollux had devoted himself to this task during all the hours of daylight with unflagging zeal and diligence. [10]
- If this really was so she would rather, a thousand times rather, lift her hands in prayer to the smiling Aphrodite, roguish Eros, beautiful Apollo, and all the nine Muses who protected her Pollux, than to Him. [10]
- The young gem-cutter was not usually a frequent visitor to his parents' house, but since the return of the hapless Pollux he called there almost daily. [10]
- Arsinoe did not waken her, but asked Pollux, with a roguish laugh: "We shall find our way alone, shall we not? [10]
- While he was waiting, Titianus remembered the young sculptor Pollux, whose acquaintance he had made, and his mother in the pretty little gate-house. [10]
- Papias was somewhat uneasy for he was alarmed at the thought that Pollux might now betray how small a share his master had in his last works--which had brought him higher praise than all he had done previously. [10]
- Only as he took the quiver intended for Antinous, Pollux hesitated a little for it was of solid silver and had been given to his master by the wife of a wealthy cone-dealer, whom he had represented in marble as Artemis equipped for the chase. [10]
- Her vain attempts to rouse the sleeper, though somewhat pathetic, had in them at the same time something irresistibly ludicrous, and Pollux felt sorely tempted to laugh. [10]
- I rode up to my Lord March, and finding there was a minute yet to run I went up the Row a distance and back again amidst more huzzaing, Pollux prancing and quivering, and frothing his bit, but never once attempting to break. [9]
- Nothing was now to be done, but to procure the removal of Pollux from Alexandria, or to render him in some way incapable of damaging him, and this he might perhaps be able to do by the instrumentality of the wrathful Emperor. [10]
- Now, from sunrise till evening fell, Pollux was constant to his work. [10]
- When Pollux observed this modest meal, he called out: "That is prisoners' fare, Pontius; have we nothing better in the house than that? [10]
- Arsinoe soon followed this example, nor was this solely on account of Pollux who, by the prefect's orders, had been enlisted among the artists to whom the arrangement of the display was entrusted, in spite of the objections of his master Papias. [10]
- When Hadrian should think proper to throw off his disguise, it might easily occur to him to let Pollux feel the effects of his power. [10]
- No sooner were the two ladies alone, than Balbilla rose and looked inquisitively round and about the sculptor's enclosed work-room; but her companion said: "A very polite young man, this Pollux, but rather too much at his ease, and too enthusiastic. [10]
- Before Pollux left the room the Emperor gave him the tablets with the verses and begged him, with a meaning smile, to desire the gate-keeper at the Caesareum to give them to Annaeus Florus the Roman. [10]
- Pollux, safe in the prison at Canopus, cursed his destiny and indulged in vain hopes of the assistance of his friends. [10]
- He remained in the palace scarcely half an hour and then, while Pollux was still engaged in escorting his mother and their household goods to his sister's house, he went to visit the night magistrate, who presided over the safety of Alexandria. [10]
- When Plutarch conducted the Emperor and his friends to see the Bacchus Antinous, which Pollux had completed in the clay, Hadrian was deeply struck and wished to know the name of the master who had executed this noble work of art. [10]
- Pollux, to be sure, had had his answer ready for his master, and without considering how easy it would have been to part from him in kindness, he had shortly and roundly quitted his service. [10]
- The late December sun was already giving warning of his approaching rising by cold yellowish-grey streaks in the sky as Pollux and his companion entered the gate, which had long since been opened for the workmen. [10]
- The Emperor, who still so kindly remembered them, could not always be angry with him; perhaps he might some day send a messenger to seek Pollux and to make up to him by large commissions for all he had made him suffer. [10]
- After looking for some time at the sculptor's work Arsinoe grew calmer, and turning to Pollux she asked: "Did you make it? [10]
- I love Pollux so much, and he loves me too. [10]
- Antinous broke the silence to ask Pollux about Selene. [10]
- With what pleasure she had looked forward to each meeting with Pollux, how truly lovable she had thought him on every fresh occasion; how frankly he too, expressed his pleasure as often as they met! [10]
- His wife who remained at home, declared that she knew nothing of Pollux but that he had abruptly quitted her husband's service. [10]
- She could find protection and love with Pollux and look to dame Doris for motherly counsel. [10]
- And there stood Pollux, bridled, with a blanket thrown over his great back and chest, surrounded still by the hunting-frocks, who had followed him from the White Horse. [9]
- His name is Pollux, and he is the son of the couple who keep the gate-house. [10]
- May Castor and Pollux, and all the gods favourable to travel, Aphrodite, and all the Loves attend your trip to Irenia, and protect you in the realm of Eros and Hymen! [10]
- Soon after breakfast Pollux went up to the rotunda where the Queens' busts stood, hoping to see Arsinoe again, and a loud snatch of song soon brought her out on to the balcony. [10]
- Euphorion himself conducted Pollux to the bath in the evening, and as they went home together he never for an instant left his side; the sense of being near him did him good and was like some comfortable physical sensation. [10]
- In the evening Pollux begged her to put away the tools. [10]
- As he went out into the hall again, Pollux hurried up to meet him, exclaiming: "The Roman architect wants to speak to you, he is a grand man! [10]
- She thought at once of Pollux, and asked herself why the story of her sufferings should have moved him so deeply if he were not in love with her. [10]
- But Papias cut off his speech at the very beginning, and vehemently demanded the restoration of his quiver and bow, of which Pollux could not work out the value in two years. [10]
- The incomparable modelling of the favorite's limbs and form was soft but not effeminate; and, as Pollux had said to himself the day before, no artist in his happiest mood, could conceive the Nysaean god as different from this. [10]
- There were hundreds of the Corinthian columns which supported the roof that covered the footway, and near to one of these the Emperor and Pollux succeeded at last in effecting a halt and taking breath. [10]
- A mighty torrent of curses and execrations flowed from the old man's lips as Pollux told his story. [10]
- By-and-bye he will of course say yes, for Pollux can do anything he wants, and some day he will be a great man, as great as Papias, and Aristaeus, and Kealkes all put together. [10]
- This was no novelty to the architect; he advised her to have patience till Hadrian should have cooled, and he promised her that later he would do every thing in his power for Pollux, whom he loved and esteemed. [10]
- Pontius did not notice it, but Arsinoe--for it was her pretty face that looked out--at once recognized the architect whom she had seen at Lochias and of whom Pollux had spoken as his friend and patron. [10]
- Even Pollux was not so light-hearted as before. [10]
- But he was not alone, for Pollux was soon at his side, and with a comical expression of pathos and laying his finger on his nose, he said: "I have come out of my cage to say something more to you. [10]
- Neither the prefect nor the architect thought of seeking the worthy fellow in prison, and even if they had done so they would hardly have found him, for Pollux was not kept in durance in Alexandria itself. [10]
- Her heart had never yet beat for any other man, but since she had met Pollux again in the hall of the Muses, his image had filled her whole soul, and what she now felt must be love--could be nothing else. [10]
- It was not merely her longing to talk about Pollux which made her new home unendurable to Arsinoe, but many other reasons besides. [10]
- Full of rapturous memories she described the place in the streets where Pollux had first kissed her. [10]
- As she studied it in profile, she remembered what Pollux had declared he could read in her features, and deep indignation rose up in her soul. [10]
- He had come into the work-place without Pollux, who was still speaking to the prefect, and he said gravely as he approached Balbilla: "You have every reason to be angry, noble lady. [10]
- As Selene withdrew into the room, she gently shook her pale head, and said to herself: "'It was to be for me,' Pollux said; something for me, for once--and even this pleasure is spoilt. [10]
- As Pollux went into his mother's house he cried out: "Oh mother, mother, what a morning, and what an evening. [10]
- The decided way in which he told Pollux the way he wished to be conducted proved to the artist that he was thoroughly familiar with the plan of the city. [10]
- Doris and her husband, and Pollux and Arsinoe, Diotima and Teuker, decked with garlands, reclined round the amphora which was wreathed with roses, drinking to pleasure and joy, to art and love, and to all the gifts of the present. [10]
- After Pollux had hurried past this strange party his thoughts reverted to other, and to him far nearer and dearer subjects. [10]
- Within the next hour, Pollux, from whose lips there flowed a stream of eager and enthusiastic words, like water from a spring, had completely won the heart of the Emperor's favorite. [10]
- For a whole hour not a word passed between them, but Pollux often sighed deeply and now then a groan of painful anxiety escaped him. [10]
- At the rotunda his pupil had done his business better than his master could have expected, but Pollux was by no means satisfied with his own arrangements. [10]
- It was for his elder playfellow and not for Arsinoe that Pollux had set his work in this place, but, just now, her gaze fell like a disturbing chill on his excited mood. [10]
- Not one of his companion's had the courage to speak the name of Pollux in his presence; only Pontius ventured to come forward for his young friend. [10]
- Pollux held to his breast a tolerably large two-handled jar full of Mareotic wine, which he had hastily wreathed with branches of ivy. [10]
- Pollux hesitated with his answer, for he had still much to do in the palace, and he hoped to see Arsinoe again in the course of the day. [10]
- Pollux had told him that some of the properties, which he had taken without asking permission, had been lost-among them an object of considerable value--and this perhaps would give him a hold over him by which to prevent his injuring him. [10]
- When he quitted him he carried in his hand an order of arrest against his assistant Pollux, who had attacked his property and abstracted a quiver of massive silver. [10]
- Pontius had told her that Pollux had entirely vanished and her benefactress persisted in al ways speaking of him as of one dead. [10]
- The flowers reminded her of the kind old woman's son, and she wondered whether tall Pollux had perhaps seen her in her finery. [10]
- Pollux took it heartily, but dame Doris, whose old eyes had been fixed as if spellbound on Antinous, seized her son's arm and quite excited by the sight of his beauty cried out: "Oh! [10]
- Papias made the head of the Muse, but the figure and the drapery Pollux formed with his own hand in a few days. [10]
- As she vanished he turned to Pollux and said gaily: "I need your forgiveness for I have disturbed you in an interview with your sweetheart. [10]
- At the gate he had permitted Pollux to greet his parents, and had gone alone into the palace to open his bargain with the architect without the presence of witnesses. [10]
- That, she would have liked very much; and after all, it was not at all impossible, for, of course, since Pollux had been working at Lochias he must often have gone to his parents. [10]
- To-day she would have been amply satisfied with pleasing Pollux, and she would, without a regret have transferred to another her part with all the applause and admiration it would procure her, and which, only yesterday, had seemed to her so inestimably precious. [10]
- When at last Hadrian stepped back from the happy caricature and called upon him to say whether that were not indeed the Roman lady, Pollux exclaimed: "It is as surely she, as you are not merely a great architect, but an admirable sculptor. [10]
- True, midway, Arsinoe had suddenly stopped and had thought that instead of going to Selene for advice, she would turn round and seek Pollux and ask him to help her. [10]
- He said he had heard I could do something with a horse (I believe he made it up), and Comyn gave oath that I could; and then he offered to bet Comyn that I could not ride this Pollux, who had killed his groom. [9]
- The poetess's bust had been completed by Pollux in Alexandria, and with all its tresses and little curls, it found favor in Balbilla's eyes. [10]
- It was concealed from; public gaze by thick linen stretched on tall wooden frames, and behind these screens Pollux was busied in framing a small model in wax, while his master had returned home to make arrangements for the labors of the following day. [10]
- Selene had heard from Paulina that Pollux was dead, and she no longer grudged her rival sister that she grieved for him more passionately than herself, though at first her peace of mind had more than once been disturbed by memories of her old playfellow. [10]
- Castor and Pollux fight in the front rank at Lake Regillus, in the midst of all that gore and slaughter, and emerge all white and pure at the end of the day--but they are gods. [9]
- Hadrian let Pollux feel his power, but he has always been friendly to me. [10]
- The son of Euphorion, Pollux the sculptor? [10]
- When Pollux had eaten his breakfast he went to his table exactly as he had done the clay before; but the sight of the work in hand had quite a different effect to the mere raw clay and wax. [10]
- Pollux had meanwhile come out of his nook, and said: "In a quarter of an hour I shall set before you the breakfast which has been turned into a supper. [10]
- When she came close up to the screen to call Pollux, the woman, who was certainly sitting to him as a model, spoke louder than before, and called out merrily: "But this is delicious! [10]
- But if you can return to-morrow in a calmer and more happy humor, with your lively spirit tuned to a softer key, then Pollux will be able to make a likeness which may satisfy the granddaughter of Claudius Balbillus. [10]
- I was up betimes, and over to the White Horse Cellar to see Pollux groomed, where I found a crowd about the opening into the stable court. [9]
- She sat gazing at the floor with a freezing gaze, and bitter enmity towards her sister, hatred towards Pollux, contempt for her father's miserable weakness, and her own utter blindness, rang wild changes in her soul. [10]
- Pollux stood looking at her, and overmastered by the passion that possessed him, he exclaimed: "Eternal gods! [10]
- Hadrian was dressed as Silenus, Pollux as a faun. [10]
- Four years after Arsinoe's marriage with Pollux, Hadrian called the young sculptor to Rome; he was there to execute the statue of the Emperor in a quadriga. [10]
- Even Pollux and Arsinoe had for some time ceased to walk soberly side by side, but moved their feet, laughingly in time to the merry measure. [10]
- She had herself announced as the mother of Pollux the sculptor and was abruptly refused admission, with the information that Arsinoe was not to be spoken with by her and that her visits were, once for all, prohibited. [10]
- Pollux touched Arsinoe and whispered to her: "Your sister lies there in her sleep like an Ariadne deserted by Dionysus. [10]
- While the Emperor and the architect were thus eagerly conversing, and the prefect was hearing from Phlegon, the secretary, all the experience of their journey, Pollux reappeared in the hall of the Muses accompanied by his father. [10]
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