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Leuke

Leuke \Leuke\ (l[=u]k), a., Leukeness \Leuke"ness\, n. See Luke, etc.

Usage examples of "leuke".

But both these cities were large and important centres, both of agriculture and of mining industry, forming crucial stations on the great Nabathaan highway, the overland between Leuke Kome and Petra.

Next morning we set out, shortly after the red and dewy sunrise, to visit the south end of Leuke Kome.

Ze hield van mijn goocheltrucs en ze vond mij een leuke speelkameraad.

Danae, her servant Leuke and two others Quintus recognized from brief glimpses at court.

Greco-Roman tradition we find the lovely Garden of the Hesperides, the Elysian Plain, and the fair Island of Leuke, to which Achilles was translated.

The Delphian oracle bade him seek the Isle of Leuke in the Euxine Sea, where Aias would appear to him, and heal him.

When Leonymus returned from Leuke he told how Achilles dwelt there with his ancient comrades, and how he was now wedded to Helen of Troy.

We were heading, they let me know, for the Nabataean port of Leuke Kome on the Red Sea.

This Leuke Kome is the chief port of embarkation for travelers sailing on to Arabia Felix.

In another late story she dwells in the isle of Leuke, a shadowy bride of the shadowy Achilles.

An illustrative fact is furnished by an effect of the tradition that Thetis, snatching the body of Achilles from the funeral pile, conveyed him to Leuke, an island in the Black Sea.

She actually remembered that contract, a cargo of rosilk, to be sold on Akra Leuke.

We were heading, they let me know, for the Nabataean port of Leuke Kome on the Red Sea.