"Thea" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "the white goddess" (Gk. leuke, thea), the name by which Ino, the daughter of Cadmus, was worshipped after she had thrown herself into the sea to avoid her enraged ...
— Milton's Comus • John Milton
... idea of C. NINA BOYLE to dedicate "to THEA and IRENE, whose lives have lain in sheltered ways," a seven-shilling shocker about ways that are anything but sheltered. Perhaps the sheltered in general, and Thea and Irene in particular, will take it from me that the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, November 3, 1920 • Various
... which we are all so familiar, is in reality a number of dried rolled leaves of the tea plant, Camellia Thea, cultivated chiefly in China and the contiguous countries. It is used excessively throughout Australasia—for has it not been shown that our four million people use more of this beverage than the millions who inhabit Continental Europe, if Russia be excepted? This fact is much to be deplored, for ...
— The Art of Living in Australia • Philip E. Muskett (?-1909) |
