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Gemini

noun

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Gemini. Synonym: Twin.

A zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere between Taurus and Cancer on the ecliptic.

The third sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about May 21 to June 20. Synonyms: Gemini the Twins, Twins.

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"Gemini" Quotes from Famous Books

... "I'll see." And before she could be prevented, she lifted up the cloth, and disclosed Shotbolt. "Oh, Gemini!" she exclaimed. ...

— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth

... constellations visible in northern latitudes are well known to them and they have given them their own names and descriptions. In the Great Dipper they see a herd of celestial reindeer. The Pleiades are to the Eskimos a team of dogs pursuing a solitary polar bear. Gemini they describe as two stones in the entrance of an igloo. The moon and the sun represent to the Eskimo, as to some of our North American Indian tribes, a fleeing ...

— The North Pole - Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club • Robert E. Peary

... tu, quae ramis (arbor!) miserabile corpus Nunc tegis unius, mox es tectura duorum, Signa tene caedis:—pullosque et luctibus aptos Semper habe fructus—gemini monumenta cruoris:' ...

— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey

... feel the warmth of the day still in the stone as they gazed at the purple and silver panoply of heaven spread above them, and Clive would commune with blue-rayed Sirius and his dark companion; the Gemini, those radiant twins; Orion's belt in the centre sky preciously gemmed with celestial diamonds; Canopus, a calm, pale yellow star, the largest in our universe; Mars, gleaming red as a madman's eye; Venus springing from the horizon, the Pleiades slinking below it. ...

— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley

... to sit upright and look about as a British baby should. This particular infant had not an idea above culinary considerations. He was a very Alderman in embryo, if there are such things as coloured Aldermen. Then there were twins—that inscrutable visitation of Providence—three brace of gemini. Triplets, in mercy to our paternal feelings, Mr. Giovannelli ...

— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies

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