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How to use Parnassus in a sentence

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Grass of Parnassus is not rare but it is uncommon enough to be a pleasant surprise when found.
It's rather mysterious how grass of Parnassus got its name, as the leaves look nothing like grass.
A single stem leaf, located near the midpoint of the flowering stem, makes grass of Parnassus easy to identify.
Their raft grounded at the peak of Mount Parnassus, and they immediately gave thanks to the gods of the mountain and to the prophetess Themis, guardian of the oracle.
She got her first role in 2009 in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus co-starring Colin Farrell and Jude Law among others.
The Apollo butterfly comes all the way from Parnassus to dazzle us with the gift of its colourful wings.
What do you look for in a great bookstore, and what is the future of independent bookstores, like your Parnassus Books?
Lower down the slopes of Parnassus, even Shakespeare published anonymously.
Both Old Fen and Middle Fen are dominated by a mix of saw sedge and black bog rush, with shows of grass of Parnassus in the calcium-rich spring flushes.
Grass of Parnassus is a late summer gem in the Yorkshire Dales.
The authors of the Parnassus plays at St John's College, Cambridge numbered him with Chaucer, Gower, and Spenser.
Enlisting a series of wild, comical and compelling characters in his journey, Dr Parnassus promises his daughter's hand in marriage to the man that helps him win.
When the waters receded, they found themselves deposited on the summit of Mount Parnassus, and were given the task of repopulating the earth with worthier people.
The beach is backed by Marram grass and hosts an illustrious range of wildflowers, including grass of Parnassus and early purple orchid.
The crest is a ram's head crest, found in the arms both of Westmorland County Council and Barrow County Borough, with Cumberland's Parnassus flowers again.
The Parnassus plays document this shift in the lamentations of the patronless writers and their unwillingness to work in the new, more explicitly commercial, market.
Ulfilas's parents were captured by plundering Goths in the village of Sadagolthina in the city district of Parnassus and were carried off to Transdanubia.
Examples from Classical Literature
All at once, as he ran by the ridge of Parnassus, there in the cool of a cleft was seated the majestical god Pan!
The ascents of Parnassus and Olympus, of which he speaks, are perhaps only fictions.
It needs more than the zeal of a turncoat to drive Apollo out of Parnassus.
But there is room, as I hope, for many kinds of music-makers in the fields about Parnassus.
You at first are inclined to say, How very absurd, to put only one tree on Parnassus!
It is in fact the invasion of Parnassus by a horde of most unmitigated proletarians.
Pindus and Parnassus were steaming, the fountains of Mount Ida were dried up, and tna raged with redoubled heat.
It is permissible to believe that every night on Parnassus is a night in June.
In some verses to a Lady, he talks of his arthritic pains, an epithet not very suitable to the dialect of Parnassus.
The most rational progress toward Parnassus was by a gradus, or step, they said.
The road to Parnassus is no shorter because it has been newly paved.
On the slope of Mount Parnassus was the famous Delphi, whither Cadmus was going.
He was the fad of the hour, the adventurer who had stormed Parnassus while the gods nodded.
And Zeus set it fast in the wide-pathed earth at goodly Pytho under the glens of Parnassus, to be a sign thenceforth and a marvel to mortal men.
From a dungeon she lifted him to Parnassus, lifted him to the top.
I have still a word to say about the poor of our own parish of Parnassus.
No Bacchic revels on Mount Parnassus were ever more corybantic.
We started the next morning for Parnassus, the double-peaked Parnassus.
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