How To Use Acheron In A Sentence
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Acheron'the sound of the word roused instinctive vibrations of memory and associations in his mind.
The Hour of the Dragon
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'- And at the last, O Prince, there came to pass that which all the plots of Ascalante the Rebel had failed to bring about, and for which the grim shade of Xaltotun was conjured in vain from the mouldering dust of his Acherontic tomb, and which even the hell-spawned sorceries of Yah Chieng, the Yellow Wizard of nighted and demon-ridden Khitai, failed to accomplish; and Conan of Aquilonia gave over the crown and the throne of the mightiest kingdom of all the West, and ventured forth into the Unknown, wherein he vanished forever from the knowledge of man.'
Conan Of The Isles
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It had prevailed for more than a year since the last attempt of the king of Nemedia, aided by the revived Acheronian wizard Xaltotun, to wrest the kingdom from Conan.
Conan the Avenger
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Acheron, he justled, bulled, and lastauriated in one day the third part of the world, beasts and people, floods and mountains; that was Europa.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Acheronian ... dark and dismal, after the river Acheron
The Volokh Conspiracy » Rivers and Words:
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In the mean time you can check out sample Acheronian Dirge tracks via the band's official MySpace page.
Metal Underground.com
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The upstart king is dead and gone; our former monarch now is prince, having made his way even from the bourn of Acheron.
Heracles
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Beleeve me Sir, the journey is over-farre for mee to undertake, but if it were neerer; I could affoord to goe in your Company; onely to see how they make these Macherones, and to fill my belly with them.
The Decameron
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She did not care to dwell too long on what these Acheronian carvings might mean.
Conan and The Mists of Door
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in the depths of an Acheronian forest
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It was a great pity I had not been more circumspect, for the boy was already too deeply steeped in those Acherontic waters.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
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Any closer and she might find the ground under her feet crumbling as the Mist fed on the traces of the spells of long-dead Acheronian sorcerers, like worms feeding on the bones of long-dead animals.
Conan and The Mists of Door
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Acheron, from which were heard to sound, by sullen and intermitted fits, the penitential psalms which the Greek Church has appointed to be sung at executions.
Count Robert of Paris
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A Stygian this time, his face tattooed in arcane designs that had been old when Acheron was new to the world.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Acherontic combustion of the sempiternal Tartarus. '
Roman and the Teuton
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Acheron - the sound of the word roused instinctive vibrations of memory and associations in his mind.
The Conan Chronicles
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It simply signifies the ascent of the soul after death into the Olympian halls instead of descending into the Acheronian gulfs.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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` Well, 'said Orastes, ` I am no Acheronian, but I am versed in some of the arts, and the control of certain spirits which have cloaked themselves in material substance.
The Conan Chronicles
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Guada-Lethe, which flows over against that city; and the lake Avernus, or the Acheronian fen, from the word Aharona, importing, _at the extremities_, a name given to that lake, which is near the ocean.
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
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Jude was too much affected to go on talking at first; she, too, was now such a mere cluster of nerves that all initiatory power seemed to have left her, and they proceeded through the fog like Acherontic shades for a long while, without sound or gesture.
Jude the Obscure
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Like only Acheronian plate or also Acheronian cloth, Acheronian light armor etc.?
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Acherontic cave, he very cunningly appropriated his torch; and it was not until the matter became serious, that he could be induced to restore it.
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
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Which Acheron furrounds, th 'innavigable flood: J Conduct me through the regions void of light.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
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The region of the catacombs was called the Acheronian and [361] Acherusian plain, and likewise the Elysian: and the stream, which ran by it, had the name of Acheron.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
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1606, "It was a comedy to see what a crowding, as if it had been at a new play, there was upon the Acherontic strand.
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
