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  • This didn't give us the Orsinos and Titanias we needed, but it was a start.

    The Infinite Monkey Theorem Marshall Moore 2011

  • Their Titanias lulled them to sleep in their laps, summoned a hundred smiling delicate household fairies to tickle their gross intellects and minister to their vulgar pleasures; and (as the above remarks are only supposed to apply to honest women loving their own lawful spouses) a mercy it is that no wicked Puck is in the way to open their eyes, and point out their folly.

    Mens Wives 2006

  • Shakespeare, indeed, in his transcendently beautiful embodiments of feminine excellence, the most exquisite creations in literature, passed into a region of sentiment and thought, of ideals and of ideas, altogether higher and more supernatural than that region in which he shaped his delicate Ariels and his fairy Titanias.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various

  • He finds the Clown and Fool upon the stage, -- he makes them the tools of his pleasantry, his satire, and even his pathos; he finds a fading rustic superstition, and shapes out of it ideal Pucks, Titanias, and Ariels, in whose existence statesmen and scholars believe forever.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

  • The comedy, too, of life will be spread before you, and nobody laughs more often than the doctor at the pranks Puck plays upon the Titanias and the Bottoms among his patients.

    The Student Life 1921

  • Woodcocks, the Allegrets to the right into Plovers, the Grebes, down left, into Ducks, and the Titanias, down right, into Gulls.

    Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

  • Titanias, and Ariels, in whose existence statesmen and scholars believe forever.

    Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

  • These fugitive poems are so idealized, rendered so fragile and attenuated, that they scarcely seem to belong to human nature, but rather to a fairy world, unveiling the indiscreet confidences of Peris, of Titanias, of Ariels, of Queen

    Life of Chopin Franz Liszt 1848

  • Their Titanias lulled them to sleep in their laps, summoned a hundred smiling delicate household fairies to tickle their gross intellects and minister to their vulgar pleasures; and (as the above remarks are only supposed to apply to honest women loving their own lawful spouses) a mercy it is that no wicked Puck is in the way to open their eyes, and point out their folly.

    Men's Wives William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Again, he may recollect that with these leaf-footed ducks of the calm and fresh waters, must be associated the leaf-footed or fringe-footed ducks of the sea; -- 'phalaropes,' which by their short wings connect themselves with many clumsy marine creatures, on their way to become seals instead of birds; and that I have kept the two little Titanias out of this class, not merely for their niceness, but because they are not short-winged in any vulgar degree, but seem to have wings about as long as a sandpiper's; -- and indeed I had put the purple sandpiper,

    Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

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