Definitionn. an effortful attempt to attain a goal
Last update: June 26, 2015
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A stur nisus), goshawk (A. [Please select]
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They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. [Please select]
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Nisus led the way, Salius coming second, and Euryalus third, with the rest following close behind. [Please select]
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Pylades and Orestes, Nisus and Euryalus, could not have been bound by closer bonds of affection. [Please select]
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"The activity of the nisus formativus," says Blumenbach, "is in an inverse ratio to the age of the organised body." [Please select]
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Already Nisus was near the goal, when unluckily his foot slipped at a spot where some victims had been sacrificed for the altar, and the blood soaking into the grass had made it slippery. [Please select]
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Upon this, Nisus also merrily asked for some consolation, since but for an accident the first prize would have been his, and he showed his face and limbs all besmeared with mud. [Please select]
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