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Hésione (English: Hesione) is an opera by the French composer André Campra. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Antoine Danchet, is based on the Greek myth of Hesione and Laomedon.
Usage examples of "hesione".
And Hesione LeGros could lie in her own blood and rot, for all anyone cared.
Only after Hesione came in did he, or she, light one of her own candles, tallow rather than wax, and whatever they talked about for the ten minutes or so the candle burned, it was so interesting that neither of them thought about trimming the wick.
But the fact remains that nobody from the City Guards is going to make the slightest effort to find out who murdered Hesione LeGros.
But as he watched the gangling shape depart, silhouetted against the orange flare of the cressets along the levee, January reflected that he himself was probably the only person in New Orleans actually interested in bringing either justice or vengeance to the shade of Hesione LeGros.
During the days that followed, January undertook as systematic a search as he could manage for information concerning the last days of Hesione LeGros.
January gathered that toward evening, the market-women frequently saw Hesione trolling for customers, either in the market or on the levee beyond.
Was it Rose he dreamed of saving, he wondered, as he turned his steps toward the Swamp, or was it Hesione, with her gaudy dress and brilliant smile?
Phlosine nor Dominique had the slightest interest in the murder of Hesione LeGros and were instead consumed with questions and gossip concerning the baroque details of the Avocet scandal.
If Hesione had recognized Lafitte, and talked about it to the wrong person, it could have been Mr.
And if Hesione had been talking about recognizing Lafitte, I think the folks at the Nantucket, or one of her neighbors, would have overheard some of it.
It would have been the same, for someone like Hesione LeGros, in Paris or Berlin or Peking.
January wondered if Artois had seen the saloonkeeper by chance here, and decided on the spur of the moment to make inquiries of his own about Hesione LeGros.
Mulm wants a slave revolt-and what Tyrone Burke talked to Hesione LeGros about before she died.
One had only to look at his mother, with her investments in cotton presses and town lots and steamboat companies, with her comfortable house and the sturdy health that lingers into old age only with adequate care, and compare her to Hesione, who gave away and spent every sou in her hellfire youth.
And in all that time, the treasure that Hesione LeGros had stolen from her lover-who had stolen it from Lafitte-had lain.