Against that backdrop, Adonis said rail should take priority over air travel.

Milton alludes to the story of Venus and Adonis in his Comus:

Among the Greeks we have the Goddess Aphrodite and the God Adonis.

The Sun as Adonis was worshipped in Byblos and about Mount Libanus.

At first Rocky refuses, but Adonis won't take no for an answer.

He's the Adonis of the rostrum, the Apollo Belvidere of the bema.

Even his pen-name, Adonis, shows how closely linked they have always been.

Hunger, felt or feared, was the mainspring of the worship of Adonis.

Venus And Adonis, in particular, was a big hit in its time.

Jones, you might at this instant sit for the picture of Adonis.

According to the one he was killed by a boar, like Adonis.

Do you mean that old Adonis in the George the Fourth wig?

He explores the dynamics of this father-son relationship between Adonis and Balboa.

She was supposed to network with this Adonis, not jump his bones.

Afy thought such an Adonis had never been coined, out of fable.

Here is Shakespeare's version of the metamorphosis of Adonis into a flower.