Hesperus

Example Sentences

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The housing association installed the locks, designed to improve security in the block on Hesperus Crossway following a Police Scotland recommendation, in November last year.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025

A Halloween screening of the 1922 silent film classic “Nosferatu” features a live musical accompaniment by Hesperus.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2021

Their own party looks like the wreck of the Hesperus.

From Fox News • Feb. 4, 2020

Source: Corbis "You look like the Wreck of the Hesperus," my mother used to exclaim irritably, when I came in from play looking particularly dishevelled.

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2010

Gladstone’s first ships, the Whitby, carrying 249 passengers, and the Hesperus, car-rying 244, sailed for Demerara in 1838.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson