"Mateless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... twofold nature wearing,— Sometimes a flashing falcon in her daring, Then a poor mateless dove that ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various
... morning eglantine, Making the far old English ways divine! Though from thy stock our mateless rose was bred, Staining the world's skies with its red, Our garden gives no scent so fresh as thine, Sweet, ...
— An Anthology of Australian Verse • Bertram Stevens
... And many a saying furthermore of god-loved seers of old Fears her with dreadful memory: all wild amid her dreams Cruel AEneas drives her on, and evermore she seems Left all alone; and evermore a road that never ends, Mateless, and seeking through the waste her Tyrian folk, she wends. As raving Pentheus saw the rout of that Well-willing Folk, When twofold sun and twofold Thebes upon his eyes outbroke: 470 Or like as Agamemnon's son is driven across the stage, Fleeing his mother's fiery hand ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil |
