Helen of Troyin a sentence
- She didn't look much like Helen of Troy: despite all the work she'd done in advance, she was flustered, and in a foul temper; she was sweating, and her hair was coming down.† (source)
- What she said to a four-year-old about Helen of Troy: "A feisty woman who screwed things up."† (source)
- She reached down and closed her hand around the hilt of the dagger Annabeth had given her—Katoptris, Helen of Troy's weapon.† (source)
- Bad poetry, but even Helen of Troy probably started with, like, a limerick, right?† (source)
- And Helen of Troy was just a woman.† (source)
- Like Helen of Troy, she explained: also it sounded like Hailan, her real name, Sea Blue.† (source)
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Would I have refused to follow my "Helen of Troy" simply because...
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Helen of Troy = Greek mythology: beautiful woman over whom the Trojan War was fought
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Helen of Troy is famously described as having "the face that launched a thousand ships."
Helen of Troy = Greek mythology: the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Ledaover whom the Trojan War was fought
- My friend simply mistook you for Helen of Troy, the most beautiful mortal of all time.† (source)
- But somewhere is Helen of Troy and all her many sisters and there is still noble work to be done.† (source)
- Helen of Troy, whatever your true name may be—And I had known it …. aha I had let it slip away.† (source)
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- I found it difficult to picture Helen of Troy in an apron, with her sleeves rolled up to the elbow and her cheek dabbled with flour; and from what I knew about Circe and Medea, the only things they'd ever cooked up were magic potions, for poisoning heirs apparent or changing men into pigs.† (source)
- She couldn't use it for a weapon any better than Helen of Troy could, but it was still a looking glass, and what she saw in it was a scared girl with no chance of winning.† (source)
- Helen of Troy?† (source)
- It didn't look very special, just a triangular blade with an unadorned hilt, but it had once been owned by Helen of Troy.† (source)
- She sheathed Katoptris, wondering how Helen of Troy had stayed sane during the Trojan War, if this blade had been her only source of news.† (source)
- It seemed possible that she was Helen of Troy but I knew she wasn't Cleopatra because she was not a redhead; she was a natural blonde.† (source)
- Balsamo-Helen of Troy" pulled her mouth an inch back from mine and said, "Let me go, please, then undress and lie on the examining table."† (source)
- The only thing that fretted me was that rushing off to Nice might have caused me to miss "Helen of Troy," cette grande blonde!† (source)
- Who cares how old Helen of Troy is?† (source)
- But how about "Helen of Troy"?† (source)
- Helen of Troy, one thousand pounds!† (source)
- This is the guiding power that runs through the work of Dante in the female figures of Beatrice and the Virgin, and appears in Goethe's Faust successively as Gretchen, Helen of Troy, and the Virgin.† (source)
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