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Lone female Argonaut
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atalanta
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Atalanta is a heroine in Greek mythology. Atalanta may also refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in Greek mythology the daughter of king Schoeneus, famous for her swiftness, Latin, from Greek Atalante , fem. of atalantos "having the same value (as a man)," from a- "one, together" + talanton "balance, weight, value" (compare talent ).
Usage examples of atalanta.
The race was to be between the Algonquin, eight-oared boat with outriggers, rowed by young men, students of Stoughton University, and the Atalanta, also eight-oared and outrigger boat, by young ladies from the Corinna Institute.
Each of the boats was cheered as it came in sight, but the cheers for the Atalanta were naturally the loudest, as the gallantry of one sex and the clear, high voices of the other gave it life and vigor.
Away sprang the Atalanta, and far behind her leaped the Algonquin, her oars bending like so many long Indian bows as their blades flashed through the water.
The classical story of Atalanta, told, like that of Eve, as illustrating the weakness of woman, provoked her to make trial of the powers of resistance in the other sex.
MY DEAREST EUTHYMIA,--Who would have thought, when you broke your oar as the Atalanta flashed by the Algonquin, last June, that before the roses came again you would find yourself the wife of a fine scholar and grand gentleman, and the head of a household such as that of which you are the mistress?
With her splendid frame, and her lovely, long, strong legs, she was Artemis or Atalanta rather than Daphne.
Venus gave Hippomenes three golden apples, and he won by dropping them one at a time because Atalanta stopped to pick them up.
The Atalantas saw the movement, and made a spurt to keep their lead and gain upon it if they could.
Atalanta: the grand old Fleet outpost on Hador-Haelic, where he'd spent much of his second duty tour.
Even the KA'PPA tower was reduced in height and repositioned aft, yet there was no mistaking the huge, superfiring casemates with their monstrous disrupters that had blasted Kabul Anak's super-battleship Rengas to tangled wreckage in the great battle for Atalanta.