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The prevailing astarte, its contemporary, was _Astarte arctica_, now so rare as a British species, that many of our most sedulous collectors have never seen a native specimen, but which is comparatively common on the northern shores of Iceland, and on the eastern coasts of Norway, within the arctic circle.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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Racahel de Vienne 6:21 pm: astarte was a nasty, vulgar, wench … she’d make an interesting character
Transcript: Writing Paganism and Non-Christian Religions « Coyote Con 2010
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(probably from some change in the direction of the gulf stream) what is now Northern Europe had been brought, this tellina and astarte had increased and multiplied until they became prevailing shells of the
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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"Last week," he began angrily, "young Jones arrived from Singapore bringing me the eggs of _Erebia astarte_, the great Silver Moon butterfly.
Police!!! Henry Hutt 1899
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