Tartarus

NOUN
  1. a place where the wicked are punished after death
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How To Use Tartarus In A Sentence

  • This was a romaunt in four cantos upon the already familiar episode of Francesca, that "lily in the mouth of Tartarus. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
  • Thrust it down, below the depths of Tartarus, into the lightless prison of the Titans!
  • This is the doorway to the afterworld… heaven, hell, paradise, nightmares, Elysian, Tartarus… whatever name you want to grace it with, but it is not as people view it.
  • The Greeks call it Tartarus, a place even worse than Hades; the Hebrews, Gehenna or Sheol; for Islam it is Jahannam; in China and Japan it is referred to as Di Yu; the Buddhists and Hindus call it Naraka. The Thieves of Darkness
  • Emerging from Cocytus dark and from Tartarus murky Satyricon
  • Acherontic combustion of the sempiternal Tartarus. ' Roman and the Teuton
  • But hereby we apprehend that these were not the bones of persons planet-struck or burnt with fire from heaven; no relicks of traitors to their country, self-killers, or sacrilegious malefactors; persons in old apprehension unworthy of the earth; condemned unto the Tartarus of hell, and bottomless pit of Pluto, from whence there was no redemption. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
  • Zeus: I vanish you to the darkest pits of Tartarus!
  • Sisyphus, as the story goes, was a King who widely extended the commerce, and largely increased the wealth, of Corinth, but by avaricious and fraudful ways; for the sin whereof he was sentenced after death to the unresting labour of rolling up a hill in Tartarus, a huge unhewn block of stone, which so soon as he gets it to the hill top, for all his efforts, rolls down again. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers
  • Tartarus; it was not so delicious at first, as now it is bitter and harsh; a cankered soul macerated with cares and discontents, taedium vitae, impatience, agony, inconstancy, irresolution, precipitate them unto unspeakable miseries. Anatomy of Melancholy
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