Leander Sentence Examples
His son Hermenegild, however, was converted to the orthodox faith through the influence of his Frankish wife, Ingundis, daughter of King Sigebert I., and of Leander, metropolitan of Seville.
The larger shrimp-like crustacea are generally known as "prawns," the name being especially applied in Britain to the species Leander serratus, formerly called Palaemon serratus, which is highly esteemed for the table.
The large river-prawns of the genus Palaemon (closely allied to Leander) found in most tropical countries are also often used as food.
It has a publishing house (1834) and Bonebrake Theological Seminary (1871) at Dayton, Ohio; and supports Otterbein University (1847) at Westerville, O.; Westfield College (1865) at Westfield, Illinois; Leander Clark College (1857) at Toledo, Iowa; York College (1890) at York, Nebraska; Philomath College (1867) at Philomath, Oregon; Lebanon Valley College (1867) at Annville, Pa.; Campbell College (1864) at Holton, Kansas, and Central University (1907) at Indianapolis, Indiana.
He settled there in 1490, and soon afterwards gave to the world editions of the Hero and Leander of Musaeus, the Galeomyomachia, and the Greek Psalter.
Phaer's Virgil, Chapman's Homer, Harrington's Orlando, Marlowe's Hero and Leander, Fairfax's Jerusalem Delivered, North's Plutarch, Hoby's Courtier - to mention only a few examples - placed English readers simultaneously in possession of the most eminent and representative works of Greece, Rome and Italy.
Hero, the beautiful priestess of Aphrodite at Sestos, was seen by Leander, a youth of Abydos, at the celebration of the festival of Aphrodite and Adonis.
Every night Hero placed a lamp in the top of the tower where she dwelt by the sea, and Leander, guided by it, swam across the dangerous Hellespont.
One stormy night the lamp was blown out and Leander perished.
His Benedictine name was Leander.
AdvertisementLeander, bishop of Seville, was his elder brother.
Leander's ' old men's ' eight saved British blushes in the blue-riband event against the Belgians.
November - HRH joined HMS Minerva, a Leander class frigate.
The Leander squad had eight crews in the top sixteen places winning five pennants!
Leander and Tiffin beat Burway and Walton in the Fawley for junior quads.
AdvertisementHeffernan of York City rowing club came home 6 seconds clear of A West from Leander to win the lightweight single sculls.
Since taking home the million dollar prize, she has married Leander Robinson with whom she has a child.