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Cora   /kˈɔrə/   Listen
Cora

noun
1.
(Greek mythology) daughter of Zeus and Demeter; made queen of the underworld by Pluto in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Proserpina.  Synonyms: Despoina, Kore, Persephone.






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"Cora" Quotes from Famous Books



... family. Cora, the eldest, was just out of her teens; then came Launcelot or Lancy, as he was usually called; then Elsie, and so on, till you came to an infant in arms. As the cabs containing the Sherwood family drove up to the house, ...
— Miss Dexie - A Romance of the Provinces • Stanford Eveleth

... "Av Cora was there," said Kildare, "she was disguised as a Dutchman, for sorrow an' oi I clapped on any human baste that was not a square-buttocked Boer in tan-cord throusers. Thank you, sorr, your Honour, an' good luck to yourself an' all ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... The New Yorker, under the signature of 'Stella;' Mrs. E. F. Ellet, in 1836 a handsome young bride, who had come up from the South, and was contributing translations from the French and German to the same journal; Anne Cora Lynch, now Madame Botta; and ...
— The Story of a Summer - Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua • Cecilia Cleveland

... first relate a crime that had happened the November previous (November 17, 1855), in which Charles Cora had shot and killed General William H. Richardson, United States Marshal for the Northern District of California. These men had a quarrel on the evening of November 17th, 1855, between 6 and 7 o'clock, which resulted ...
— California 1849-1913 - or the Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four - Years' Residence in that State. • L. H. Woolley



Words linked to "Cora" :   Greek deity, Despoina, Kore, Persephone, Greek mythology



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