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Hesperian   Listen
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Hesperian  adj.  (Zool.) Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidae, or skippers.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hesperian" Quotes from Famous Books



... e'en the seat where Desolation reigns In brownest horror; by familiar thought Connected to this universal frame, With equal beauty charms the tasteful soul As the gold landscapes of the happy isles Crowned with Hesperian fruit: for Nature formed One plan entire, and made each separate scene Co-operate with the general of all In that ...
— English Poets of the Eighteenth Century • Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Bernbaum

... not hear them floating above those sweet fields of the olden time—those bright Hesperian gardens, where, for us at least, the fruits are all golden, and ...
— The Last of the Foresters • John Esten Cooke



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