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Use in Literature

Eros

Over the hearts of the purest Eros reigns with a too despotic power, and mild affection is apt to sneak away into some corner of the temple on whose shrine Love has descended.–Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Charlotte's Inheritance.

Anteros was soon afterwards born, and Eros immediately was seen to increase rapidly in size and strength.–Thomas Bullfinch in Bullfinch's Mythology.

Eros would light his torch, but the priests have given him no oil.–Edward Bulwer-Lytton in The Last Days of Pompeii.

Eros and Psyche are ever united, and Love opens all the petals of the soul.–Edward Bulwer-Lytton in Ernest Maltravers, book 1.

There is but one Eros, though there are many counterfeits of him.–Edward Bulwer-Lytton in The Last Days of Pompeii.

But Eros took care that she came to no harm.–John Thackray Bunce in Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning (With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland).

But Psyche, mindful of the commands of Eros, put them off, first with one story and then with another, and at last sent them away, loaded with jewels.–John Thackray Bunce in Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning (With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland).

But while she was filled with awe and delight at this discovery, the misfortune happened which Eros had foretold.–John Thackray Bunce in Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning (With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland).

Eros agreed that he would do what his mother wished; but this was only a pretence, for when he saw Psyche he fell in love with her himself, and made up his mind that she should be his own wife.–John Thackray Bunce in Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning (With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland).

So when her husband was asleep, she went and fetched the lamp, and looked at him by its light; and then she saw that, instead of a deadly monster, it was Eros himself, the God of Love, to whom she was married.–John Thackray Bunce in Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning (With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland).

• Preface iv
• Use in Literature 1
• Eros 1
• Nonfiction Usage 4
• Script Usage 4
• Patent Usage 4
• Bibliographic Usage 5
• Encyclopedic Usage 62
• Lexicographic Usage 64
• Index 73