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Hesʹperus

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The evening star.

“Ere twice in murk and occidental damp,

Moist Hesperus hath quenched his sleepy lamp.”


Shakespeare: All’s Well that Ends Well, ii. 1.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Heron-crests
Herostratos or Erostratos
Herring
Herring-bone (in building)
Herring-pond (The)
Hertford
Hertha
Hesione
Hesperia
Hesperides
Hesperus
Hesychasts (pron. He-se-kasts)
Hetærism
Hetman
Heu-monat or Heg-monath
Hewson
Hexameron (The)
Hexameter and Pentameter
Hexameter Verse
Hexapla
Hext

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Hesperus