venus resembles the earth more nearly than any other heavenly body.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
The little red-haired child does not do much to realise the ideal; but the woman, though not an ideal venus, might nevertheless well pose as a man's goddess.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
Go and sell your cotton nightcaps, you Hottentot venus!
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock