While I was examining them, the thought struck me that I was now in the same position as that prince who while keeping his father's flocks, was suddenly called on to award the prize of beauty to one of the three goddesses.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
The remembrance converts itself into a question: the poet's fancy no longer peoples the earth with gods and goddesses; has his insight become less vivid?
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Harlequins, gods and goddesses, clowns, spirits of good and evil, all were represented.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou