Saturnine Sentence Examples

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  • His smile became saturnine.

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  • We still contemplate and .consider; we still speak of men as jovial, saturnine or mercurial; we still talk of the ascendancy of genius, or a disastrous defeat.

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  • Thus this saturnine man confronts an environment that is not seen by him as peaceful.

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  • It is under the influence of Saturn, and that is the reason why usually Saturnine men are so covetous and tenacious.

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  • Around the world, one of the characteristics which distinguishes Saturnine figures is their access to or possession of the ' Measures '.

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  • The influence of a particular planet has also lef t traces in various languages; but the French and English jovial and the English saturnine correspond rather to the gods who served as types in chiromancy than to the planets which bear the same names.

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