When, in June, the noonday sun blazed most fiercely, the fisherman brought to the cliff Helena, Barine's sister, and chloris, Dion's nurse, who had been a faithful assistant of his mother, and afterwards managed the female slaves of the household.
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Georg Ebers
They also brought many an hour in which Helena found an opportunity to show her prudence, while old chloris and the fisherman's wife aided her by their experience.
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Georg Ebers
So Semestre, the ancient house-keeper of Lysander of Syracuse, scolded the two maids, chloris and Dorippe, who, unheeding the smoking wicks of their lamps, were wearily turning the hand-mills.
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Georg Ebers