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Nymph plays hard to get in company
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calypso
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Calypso (1999) is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venevisión . This telenovela lasted 80 episodes and was distributed internationally by Venevisión International .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calypso \Ca*lyp"so\ (k[.a]*l[i^]p"s[-o]), n. [The Latinized Greek name of a beautiful nymph.] (Bot.) A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part ...
Usage examples of calypso.
There are the episodes of Ulysses and Calypso, Ulysses and Circe, Numa and Egeria, Rinaldo and Armida, Prince Ahmed and Peri Banou.
He supported his argument by asserting that the writer was clearly more familiar with homelife than the sea and contending that Nausicaa used the story to frame portraits of the great Greek heroines: Calypso, Circe, and Penelope, for instance.
Calypso snorted as Victoria hooked her right foot over the sidesaddle peg.
Kallie dropped behind a record rack and watched as the music changed, from the techno-trance of The Shamen to the electronic heartbeat of Tangerine Dream, from the calypso rhythms of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra to the classical cadences of Michael Nyman.
Norton feared that it would be a long time before the skippers of Calypso, Beagle and Challenger would speak to him again.
And even during his idyllic stay of eight years on the isle of Calypso, he would often be found on the beach alone, gazing homeward, out to sea.
Ulysses, unknown to Penelope, slipped a letter into my hand for Calypso, at the island of Ogygia.
He was on a hill, and below him spread his home town of Calypso, Ohio.
A late 1960s hotel, the Calypso, was still standing in defiance of progress.
As we got even with the Calypso I wiped the drizzle from my face and peered up into the gloom.
At the end of the street was the elevated highway, and just before that, above the rooftops, I could see the dish on top of the Calypso Hotel.
Ramage realized that the Frenchmen would be Batching the Calypso through telescopes, and sharp eyes would notice that although she was reducing sail, her anchors were still catted.
She heeled towards the Calypso and for a minute they were all looking down on her, a gull's eye view, and then she capsized, fat - bilged and ungainly.
I think she was listening to my heartbeat, which was bongoing calypso rhythms in the constricted drum of my chest.
Every one of the Calypsos would be listening for the crackling of the rocket as they watched the advancing Saracens.