niobe
Collocations
3ADJ.
all, ambiguous
VERB + NIOBE
like, make
NIOBE + NOUN
s, teares
Definitions
name
A daughter of Tantalus, said to have turned into stone while weeping for her children.
A daughter of Phoroneus and Teledice.
71 Niobe, a main belt asteroid.
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
noun
A crying woman; a woman who is bereaved or inconsolable.
With which she followed my poore Fathers body / Like Niobe, all teares.
There is a word will Priam turne to stone, Make wells and Niobe’s of the maides and wiues.
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4With which she followed my poore Fathers body / Like Niobe, all teares.
WiktionaryThere is a word will Priam turne to stone, Make wells and Niobe’s of the maides and wiues.
WiktionaryBut when a man has been ranging, like the painful bee, from flower to flower, perhaps for a month together, and the thoughts of home and wife begin to have their charms with him, to be received by a N
WiktionaryNiobe is an ambiguous character.
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