Crossword-Solution: NIOBES 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Who shall tell Priam so, or Hecuba? Let him that will a screech-owl aye be call’d Go in to Troy, and say there ‘Hector’s dead.’ There is a word will Priam turn to stone; Make wells and Niobes of the maids and wives, Cold statues of the youth; and, in a word, Scare Troy out of itself.

Reflections of bright shapes that pass Thro' other worlds, above our sphere! But this reminds me I digress;-- For PLATO, too, produced, 'tis said, (As one indeed might almost guess), His glorious visions all in bed.[1] 'Twas in his carriage the sublime Sir RICHARD BLACKMORE used to rhyme; And (if the wits don’t do him wrong) Twixt death and epics past his time,[2] Scribbling and killing all day long-- Like Phoebus in his car, at ease, Now warbling forth a lofty song, Now murdering the young Niobes.

Tall, awkward, shapeless dawdles, whose unlovely youth was more repulsive than the mother’s full-blown, homely age,—with them the old lady’s innocent obliquity of vision had degenerated into a downright squint, and the redness round the rims of their large, fishy-looking, light eyes, gave the idea of perpetual weeping,—a pair of Niobes, versus the beauty, whose swollen orbs were always dissolved in tears.

The Venuses and Junos, the Minervas, Niobes, and Helens of mythology, the Madonnas, the mediæval beauties, all alike have the well-developed and shapely arm and shoulder, the high chest, the vigorous body, and the firm and erect carriage.

Others appeared to confine themselves to the well-known Apollo Belvederes, Niobes, and other antique subjects.