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  • proper noun alternative name of Hesperus, the evening star

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Examples

  • "Hesper," she said, gravely, "you never told me there was anything of that sort!

    Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864

  •     Hesper his orb long-look'd for aloft 'gins slowly to kindle.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Ers, Mores and Merkery are surgents below the rim of the Zenith Part while Arctura, Anatolia, Hesper and Mesembria weep in their mansions over Noth, Haste, Soot and Waste. —

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Hesper, shineth in heaven a light more genial ever?

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     Hesper, awaiting thee each sentinel holdeth alarum.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Hesper, moveth in heaven a light more tyrannous ever?

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Hesper, shineth in heaven a light more genial ever?

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     Hesper, a bride shall approach in starlight happy presented,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Hesper is here; rise youths, rise all of you; high on Olympus

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Sisters, Hesper a fellow of our bright company taketh.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

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