| 单词 | Stygian |
| 例句 | He thought he heard the undertone of a threat, like: unless you want to get a Stygian sword up your nose. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He unsheathed his Stygian iron blade and approached the archway. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “There’s nothing I hate worse than Stygian iron.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z His Stygian iron sword lay by his side, next to Hazel’s spatha. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He stabbed a telkhine, and his black Stygian blade absorbed the monsters essence, drinking its energy until there was nothing left but dust. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z In my pocket, the Stygian ice dog whistle started to grow colder, freezing against the side of my leg. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Nico waded through the last group of Earthborn, slashing them into mounds of wet clay with his black Stygian sword. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The only light came from the dim purple glow of a dark sword, its Stygian iron blade set against one side of the container. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Framed in Stygian iron, the magical portal was a set of elevator doors—two panels of silver and black etched with art deco designs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Each time the giant’s smoky veil started creeping around one of them, Nico was there, slashing through it, drinking in the darkness with his Stygian blade. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Crossing a walled river of Stygian sludge, we entered a district of factories and workhouses, of smokestacks belching black stuff into the sky, and this is where we found Wakeling Street. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z A sword appeared in the giant’s hand—a Stygian iron blade much like Nico’s, except five times the size. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was roughly the same height as Bob, with elaborate Stygian iron armor, a single diamond blazing in the center of his breastplate. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Nico drew his sword—three feet of wicked sharp Stygian iron, black as a nightmare. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Hades drew his sword, a double-edged Stygian blade etched with silver. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z His eyes glittered darkly as he took in the scene - the Athena Parthenos harnessed to its team of pegasi, Nico with his Stygian sword drawn, Coach Hedge with his baseball bat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z His Stygian iron blade seemed to make the shadows even gloomier, as if the infernal metal was drawing the light and heat out of the air. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He sat back in his leather aviator jacket, his black T-shirt and jeans, that wicked silver skull ring on his finger, and the Stygian sword at his side. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He still held his Stygian sword, but his hands were dark and transparent like smoky glass. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Not only that but the Stygian ice dog whistle was back in my pocket, too. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Rivalry comes from “rivalis,” Latin for river — a reminder that rivals wouldn’t be rivals if they didn’t draw from the same Stygian source. Review | One rivalry changed the landscape in English art 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Ms. Smith brings her been-there-and-loved-it veteran’s aura to the role of the weary sorcerer Alcandre, a Prosperolike figure who works her magic from the Stygian depths of a cave in France. | 'The Illusion': Phantasmagorical Adventures of a Missing Son 2011-06-06T02:00:00Z Sometimes we come to a fuller reckoning of ourselves through the most Stygian passageways. A Giant of Painting Sheds New Light on Darkness 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z There, Levi conjured a Stygian exoplanet of glissandos and microtones and processed percussive sounds, evoking the truly alien better than the most lavish special effects ever could have done. Mica Levi’s Anti-Musical Soundtracks 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The protagonist, the classics scholar A. E. Housman, starts by saying: “I’m dead, then. Good. And this is the Stygian gloom one has heard so much about.” Dance Review: Underworld Notes, in the Homeric Sense 2014-02-02T22:31:20Z The imperious woman shrouded in Stygian gloom at the Royal Festival Hall contains all these possibilities and myriad more. Diamanda Galás – review 2012-08-02T17:45:00Z The protagonist, Nephthys Kinwell, is, in one light, an alcoholic taxi driver, and, in another, a Stygian ferrywoman haunted by the violent death of her twin brother, Osiris. A Cabdriver Who Also Ferries Souls and Ghosts? Just Another Day on the Job. 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z This is the Bacon we know — creature of Stygian charm in dandy’s garb, whose own face was flayed by lovers, who flung him out of windows in the beatings he sought. New ‘Revelations’ in the Life of Francis Bacon, a Master of Darkness and Distortion 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z An ominous, rumbling score adds menace, suspended chords and electronic creaks suggesting a descent into some Stygian world. Citizenfour review – Edward Snowden documentary is utterly engrossing 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z The actors are shot in separate gloomy interiors, and from stationary positions, so as to appear in Stygian Zoom-like frames as if at a virtual meeting of hobbits. Review: ‘Waiting for Godot’ in the Bleakest Zoom Room Ever 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z In the most Stygian of these, I plumbed abysses that no brother of Jesus should ever have had to endure. How I lost my festival virginity to Howard 2010-08-21T23:09:00Z They are the occupants of the outsize bunk bed at the center of Sabine Dargent’s set, shrouded in Stygian shadows by Mark Galione’s lighting. Review: ‘On Blueberry Hill’ Looks Back in Radiant Regret 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z In a letter to her family, she said, ”I never saw anything so Stygian.” A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z But does Ms. Burton have any of that Stygian gloom that the late Mr. McQueen found in the Victorian era for his menswear shows? Special Report: Fashion: Rockin' Back the Clock 2011-06-21T10:37:23Z He parked next to a dimly lit footbridge, which wobbled with our passage above a Stygian chasm. A revelatory road trip along the Algerian coast 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The lights on some turbines pollute the Stygian sky. Carbon County, Wyoming, Knows Which Way the Wind Is Blowing 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Though it was there, in that Stygian apartment, that she bottomed out, Michigan was not where her problems began. Gracie Gold’s Battle for Olympic Glory Ended in a Fight to Save Herself 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Marc Milne, an arachnologist at the University of Indianapolis, discovered the new type of sheet weaver spiders inside the damp and rocky Stygian River Cave in June. Scary venomous snake, 'translucent' spider and 5 other new species discovered in 2018 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z But Fielder says it’s supposed to tie into the story — which is about a human who’s drawn into the game’s underground Stygian Abyss, and must fight a mythological “primordial nightmare” called Typhon. Ultima Underworld inspired a generation of games, but its sequel wants to offer something new 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Wading into the Stygian dark of the powerless gym on Sunday, the day after the storm hit, Beasley said he was overwhelmed by the looming cleanup and repair. Houston's small businesses dig out from Harvey's onslaught 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z The summer-stock theatricality of finding each other dissipated as the pair walked along the museum’s Stygian passageways. Stephen Sondheim and Meryl Streep Side by Side at the PEN Gala 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Instead of the Stygian vastness of the space freighter Nostromo, this one takes place in the relatively cramped confines of the International Space Station, whose interior is as atmospheric as the inside of a toaster. ‘Life’ review: What’s out there is ‘Alien-Lite’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Is the name a nod to the local passion for the Stygian side of the beer world? Where the Beers Are: A Region-by-Region Guide to U.S. Craft Brews 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The pictures – dramatic, intense, Stygian and insistently putting the Bible into the here and now – were like nothing seen before and their effect was instantaneous. Villainy and visionaries: how Caravaggio’s followers saw the light 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Wading into the Stygian dark of the powerless gym on Sunday, the day after the storm hit, Beasley said he was overwhelmed by the looming cleanup and repair. Houston's small businesses dig out from Harvey's onslaught 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z Perhaps that affection is stoked by a little bit of Stockholm syndrome in the cramped station, a Stygian den of low ceilings, stale air and confusing tunnels. ‘It Is a Piece of Penn Station’: An Exiting Departures Board Inspires Strong Emotions 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Democrats in Philadelphia are understandably trying to draw a contrast with the Stygian mood of Republicans in Cleveland: Broadly positive usually trumps broadly negative. Here’s the Major Mistake Hillary Clinton Can’t Make Tonight 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z For the next 90 minutes, we traveled the Stygian depths separately, our frantic text messages to each other getting through only when our trains briefly surfaced over the East River. You wanna get to the top in New York City? You’d better have strong legs. 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Forgetting danger, cleanliness and reason, I ventured into the yawning Stygian recesses of the inner earth, down inclined passageways whose walls were coated with the detestable slimy niter of the earth’s bowels. This 1973 TIME Article Is Written in the Style of H.P. Lovecraft 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z It was common for eastern bloc services to approach westerners it thought might be worth targeting as agents or sources, without the outcome being documented in the Stygian cellars of files. From Putin to Mullah Omar, traces of cold war paranoia still shape our world | Anne McElvoy 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The winner, submitted by the astronomically well-connected 11-year-old daughter of a University of Oxford professor: Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld—like the outer solar system, a place of Stygian gloom. 'A New Planet Beyond Neptune': The year we discovered Pluto 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The corridors and other rooms that are conventionally lit are Stygian in comparison. Let there be light 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z The same is true of the second episode, “Fifteen Million Merits,” a Stygian tale of an immersively “gamified” society in which young lovers see a televised singing competition as their only possibility for escape. A “Twilight Zone” for the Digital Age | The New Yorker 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z At the boulder-strewn edge of the Erta Ale volcano in Ethiopia, the viewer peers into red hellfire surrounded by Stygian blackness. In 'EarthArt,' a Global Color Palette on Display 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z In the quarter to October, in the middle of this Stygian economic gloom, the British economy added 82,000 jobs. What might a world without work look like? 2013-01-03T21:00:05Z Now, as another storm began hammering through on Wednesday, dropping temperatures to freezing, they see the new reality getting only grimmer as they shiver in the Stygian dark with no heat. In New York's Rockaways, despair sets in as new storm hits 2012-11-08T00:35:15Z The Enigma 1,800 Miles Below Us As if the inside story of our planet weren’t already the ultimate potboiler, a host of new findings has just turned the heat up past Stygian. Earth’s Core: The Enigma 1,800 Miles Below Us 2012-05-28T19:27:17Z It was not until a good many seconds after his return to conscious life that he remembered his resolution, his Stygian oath. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z Evening yields The world to night; not in her winter robe Of massy Stygian woof, but loose array'd In mantle dun. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z Thus spake Fierce Moloch, when within the marly lake "The Stygian Council" in dark conference met! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 September 23, 1893 2012-01-27T03:00:21.910Z O young Achilles, whom a mother's care Hath dipp'd as in a sacred Stygian wave; Whole, but yet not secure, thou hence dost fare, For there are wounds from which it will not save. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z There! there he stands—for Augury prepare, Come lay his heart and inmost entrails bare, I, by the forelock, seize the Stygian hound; You bind his arms and bind the dragon down. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z So, clinging to each other, they crept along inch by inch, lost in the Stygian darkness of the great cavern of the Sierras. Frank Merriwell's Alarm Doing His Best 2011-12-30T03:00:28.567Z Shut in by high hills on both sides, night descended early upon the river, and at five-thirty I found myself pulling in Stygian blackness. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Night fell about him in Stygian darkness, While the faint lap of the waters of Leman, Beating the ramparts with madding persistence, Whispered despair in the still isolation. The Call of the Mountains and other Poems 2011-10-28T02:00:27.360Z Ye grew beside the Boat of Charon, In murky fens of Stygian gloom, Nor ever, like the rod of Aaron, Shall your grim spindles burst in bloom. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z O'er Stygian waters have I pass'd, Contemning Jove's severe decree, And reached thy sable court at last To find my lost Eurydicè. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z The long-drawn lightning flash ended, leaving the girl blinking in Stygian darkness. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z The shadowed depths of the narrow gorge ahead was Stygian by contrast. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z A cloudy poison, mix'd of Stygian night, Rapt her to deadly and infernal sleep. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z Am I to be handed over to the police, or have you engaged passage for me on the Stygian ferry?” The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z Below, a king and queen and their horses are overwhelmed in a Stygian stream. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z What though since then in Stygian gloom My soul to grope is given! Verses of Feeling and Fancy 2011-09-11T02:00:10.237Z Never durst a Muse before Enter that infernal door: Clio, stifled with the smell, Into spleen and vapours fell, By the Stygian steams that flew From the dire infectious crew. Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 2011-08-23T02:00:30.217Z “To pay the Stygian ferry”: the river Styx, in the infernal regions, across which Charon conducted the souls, and received an obolus for his fee. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z You must go into the little enclosed garden where the statue of the Stygian Hermes is. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z With towers, had struck them to the Stygian sound, Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z It seemed to me as if I were embarking on some Stygian flood, for we looked into a rain-swept impenetrable perspective. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z And paid his obolus on the Stygian shore. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Of all the early myths, that of the Stygian ferryman is the one which has shown greatest longevity. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z I know not any thing I would less willingly have undertaken than to traverse again these Stygian marshes, which were now not to be avoided. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z Dark, like the Stygian stream, it flowed in the mist of the evening, the twilight. My Cave Life in Vicksburg With Letters of Trial and Travel 2011-03-30T02:00:13.113Z He was seized by a sense of falling through that Stygian shroud. Palos of the Dog Star Pack 2011-03-20T02:00:36.067Z Worn out with age and dire disease, a cat, Friendly to all, save wicked mouse and rat, I'm sent at last to ford the Stygian lake, And to the infernal coast a voyage make. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z This is certainly not the staunch opinion of men of the world; but I call on honour, virtue, and worth to give the Stygian doctrine a loud negative! The Real Robert Burns 2011-02-18T03:00:20.253Z As I came out of the Stygian gloom of the belt of evergreens I knew that some subtle change had taken place. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z That night, looking down through the ravine, I saw, winking and blinking cheerfully, the only light that brightened the Stygian darkness, the Red Cross of the hospital ships. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z Still these lye howling on the Stygian shore, O love no more, O love no more. The Mad Lover The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (3 of 10) 2011-01-20T03:00:06.760Z She had yet to learn that the passengers spoken of by the man had crossed the Stygian Ferry as well as the Atlantic. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z It might well be imagined that she was truly of Stygian origin. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z The Thracian monarch from the table flings While with his cries the vaulted parlour rings; His imprecations echo down to hell, And rouse the snaky furies from their Stygian cell. Heathen Mythology Henry seated himself by the bluegown on the stone, and they both turned their eyes down on the deep hollow, where the waters seemed as dark as the Stygian stream. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 Above all, she has the secret of the unseen world, and can lighten for her worshipper the Stygian gloom. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius A full-grown aboriginal met the same fate not long ago; he had been partaking too freely of intoxicants, and sank into the Stygian darkness without uttering a cry. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands I may therefore boast of having visited the Stygian territories. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Yes; that fellow in black is Halfway the son of Hide; he is one of the principal Stygian chiefs. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies Ace was just beginning, when the floor suddenly gave way beneath him, and he fell down a ten foot well, landing on all fours, in Stygian blackness. Unexplored! In the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, the goddess who appears in a vision to Lucius promises that, when his mortal course is run, he shall find her illumining the Stygian gloom. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius In fact she slipped and fell the last ten feet, her heart bounding into her throat as she toppled into Stygian blackness. The Return of Tharn But here, rocks upon rocks in endless confusion, reared their craggy heads towards heaven, their frowning shadows casting a Stygian gloom upon the billows that leap and roar around their massive base. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. The Stygian ships followed the line of march as nearly as might be, keeping close in shore and watching for opportunity to work harm. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies “Well, then, sometimes these Stygian streams––” “Keep it up, Professor!” Unexplored! An Egyptian priest with tonsure and linen robes raises a dead man to life who has been “floating on the Stygian streams.” Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius It is but life In stronger thread of brighter colour spun, And spun for ever; dipp’d by cruel Fate In Stygian dye, how black, how brittle here! Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes Then he was being sucked down into a black vortex and through a Stygian passage. The Eye of Wilbur Mook Gradually the party approached the inlet, and arrived unchallenged within the lines of the Stygian fleet just as Scaly began her attack. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies Here and there were offshoots, darker passages which disappeared into the Stygian gloom. Once Upon A Planet The ghosts of Roger Bacon and Emanuel Swedenborg were summoned from the Stygian shore to plead their causes anew before the bar of public opinion. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. Is it a Stygian vapour in my blood? Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes He was gibbering in the Stygian tongue, though in a dialect unfamiliar to her. Red Nails Rodney's sword and the battle-axe of Ask cut great gaps in the Stygian ranks. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies The stars appeared as bright glowing blobs sunk dismally far into the heavy depths of some Stygian jelly. Fly By Night Hence, loathéd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes Let the bell toll!—a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?—weep now or nevermore! English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History More than half a century ago a tribe of the Tlazitlans rebelled against the Stygian king, and, being defeated in battle, fled southward. Red Nails A blow from the marlinspike broke the Stygian captain's arm and sent the cutlass ringing upon deck. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies To Peace, however, in this vortex of existence can the Son of Time not pretend; still less if some Specter haunt him from the Past; and the Future is wholly a Stygian Darkness, specter-bearing. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 They who would bathe in a Stygian wave, to render them invulnerable, are not worthy of the name of heroes. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion Roderigo, on his part, thinking that there was no other remedy, and feeling how deeply he was bound by the Stygian law, determined at all hazards to make his escape. Devil Stories An Anthology The Stygian cave is so called from the Styx, the infernal river, “the flood of deadly hate.” Minor Poems by Milton The Stygian captain loosed his hold, fell back into the lake and sank out of sight. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies I say I compared this with the song I allude to, "Drink and drive care away, Drink and be merry; You'll ne'er go the faster To the Stygian ferry." The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales But what instinct is there to guide the human soul that, quickened by unselfish love, is yet walled in by the Stygian darkness of an ignorant life? The Blue Goose Suddenly awaking to the Stygian darkness around him, he gave over thinking of the past and future and turned uneasy thoughts upon the present. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance His station was at the entrance to the lower world, or the Stygian cave. Minor Poems by Milton Had Rodney not been disabled, it is doubtful whether the Stygian ships would have got off from the Emma so easily. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies On these Stygian shores the bones of some are still dug up in our day: they have remained unsepulchred for more than thirty times their predestined century. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Back again in the Stygian darkness of the grove it was easy to note how the pines protect their own. Old Plymouth Trails This Stygian locality has brought forth many legends. Legends & Romances of Brittany Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn ’Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! Minor Poems by Milton One of the Stygian vessels, the Despair, was sunk by the Hope. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies The shade who wandered in the Stygian fields, or stood before the tribunal of Minos to receive his doom, was thought to correspond in aspect with the aspect of the body at death. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition The vampire-night sucks all my blood; Warm home and love seem lost for aye; From cloud to cloud I steal away, Like guilty soul o'er Stygian flood. Alaska Days with John Muir Its huge bulk was lit up by a flash of light which went out in Stygian darkness and as they listened, aghast, the ground trembled beneath them and a tearing roar filled the air. Shadow Mountain And they were prepared for Stygian darkness and a land of perpetual night. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 To add to the perils of the position, the Stygian ships had weighed anchor, and were closing upon the Brownie fleet hard in the wake of their Ram. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies The Stygian, fog-filled night crushed, like a heavy, intangible weight; one choked for breath. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story The Stygian River, the dumb servitor, Charon, the coin-paid fare, are all well known in the classics of the ancients. Trail Tales On they stumbled, until the match flickered out, and they were left in Stygian blackness, 254 with the imps of darkness whirring madly about them. Carmen Ariza It has nothing of the Stygian about it. Westward with the Prince of Wales The least imprudence might reveal to them the presence of the Brownie party, and call down upon the little band the whole Stygian fleet. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies Except for the stream of light projected before them, they were engulfed in Stygian darkness; and save for the slithering sound of the tires on the wet road, they moved in profound night silence. In the Shadow of the Hills But the Stygian blackness successfully hid any form of shelter. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 Is the mind within the brain, awaiting in Stygian darkness the advent of the vibrations which shall give it pictures of the outside world? Carmen Ariza The sound of their voices echoed like thunder of the drums of Thor, and Asher realized this cavern might stretch away in Stygian blackness for hundreds of miles. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 The Stygian sails were riddled, masts were knocked over, decks were covered with wounded Pixies; splinters flew in the air like snow flakes. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies Thus they were in Stygian darkness for nearly a half-hour, though the green luminosity far beneath them grew stronger with each passing minute. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 I had switched off the light; my cubby was Stygian dark. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 Then came the tremendous thump, the swinging of a colossal page across the void, the warping of the very universe about them, the physical torture and the swift rush through Stygian inkiness.... Wanderer of Infinity This is the very place of shades, and sleep, and sleepful night;390 And living bodies am I banned in Stygian keel to bear. The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse The ships moved out under a favoring breeze, and opened full broadsides upon the Stygian vessels. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies Half of the floor slid to one side, disclosing a flight of steps leading down into Stygian darkness. The Great Drought But then it drew slowly to a stop high up in the atmosphere, 391 where it remained motionless, glowing white and incandescent against the Stygian background of the overcast skies. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 Let him, still hovering o'er the Stygian wave, Ne'er reach the body's peaceful port, the grave. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero He nodded oath withal By his own Stygian brother's stream, the pitchy waters' fall, And blazing banks, and with his nod shook all Olympus' land. The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse Justus Miles was the first to come to, and he found himself in Stygian blackness. The Heads of Apex As I am child “Of hoary Saturn, she shall sink o'erwhelm'd “By her own Jove; and dip in Stygian waves.” The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II No human being in the throes of fear could hope to discover that tortured outlet, could hope to grope his way through Stygian gloom down a triple ramp of black stairs. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 He peered downward but his eyes could not penetrate the Stygian blackness out of which rose the monotonous wail of the voice. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country In describing Beelzebub when about to address the Stygian Council, he says:— His look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer’s noontide air, while thus he spake.—ii. 307-309. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Still lonely and magnificent in guilt, Splendid in scorn, rapt in a cloudy dream, He paused at last upon the Stygian silt, And raised calm eyes above the angry stream.... Ships in Harbour “Here, men, swift drag him hence!—dispatch his soul, “Driven from his body, down to Stygian night; “By pangs excruciating.” The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II And beyond, where the single door opened into a passage of Stygian darkness, that yawning entrance was thrown into hideous detail. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 People thus carried over the Stygian ferry paid Charon by a small coin put between their lips. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Then the anger of Zeus was kindled against his own child, the golden-haired Apollo, and he spake the word that he should be banished from the home of the gods to the dark Stygian land. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Charon—under sequestration— Does the Stygian bark resign, Glad to find a situation As policeman to the line. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Now retir'd To regions far beneath, the Stygian lake Reflects his form. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II The main interest of Tosari centres round the stupendous Bromo, possessing the largest crater in the world, a fathomless cavity three miles in diameter, veiled in Stygian darkness, and suggesting the yawning mouth of hell. Through the Malay Archipelago Now and again through the Stygian gloom a torrent of sheet-lightning rolled down across the heavens, bringing in its wake a moment of terrible light. Great Pirate Stories Most strangely pale and strangely fair is she— Yet deadlier than the hemlock draught her smile, Darker than Stygian glooms her subtle guile.... The Path of Dreams Poems Adroitly he worked the battle nearer and nearer to the Stygian darkness that lay at the foot of the mighty crags. Hellhounds of the Cosmos “Fear no more “A rival love, in her,” he said, “to see;” And bade the Stygian streams his words record. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II Through the Stygian gloom he fell in what seemed to be an endless drop. The Jameson Satellite The streets were plunged in almost Stygian darkness. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Then the Stygian darkness of the great pines grew; and the silence of wonder fell on the two quarrellers. Werwolves From the everlasting stars she stole the glittering diamonds that decked her alabaster brow and hid them in the Stygian umbrage of her hair. In Our Town The wooden images their eyes avert: “The tower-crown'd goddess dubious stands to plunge, “The guilty couple in the Stygian wave. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II He found Stygian darkness in among the pines: the moon, considering its size, shed amazingly little light. The Madness of May At the sound of the second mate’s voice I turned, and saw, dead astern, a thin streak of ghostly white, drawn horizontally across the curtain of Stygian darkness in that quarter. The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" It was not the sort of night we know on earth, but a Stygian blackness. The Fire People The Stygian darkness of his hiatus refused to lift by questioning. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters Now from the lowest depths, As yellow sands they turn, the billows shine; Now blacker seem they than the Stygian waves; Now flatten'd, all with spumy froth is spread. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II The Stygian Lake presented no horrors, nor the Elysian Fields any delights; the former is a great round piece of water, and the latter are very common-looking vineyards. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I A little aside from these sat two old fellows, habitual topers, not in the best circumstances themselves, yet rather astonished at this dreary Stygian crew. The Goose Man Here is eternal night—a night of Stygian darkness, unlighted even by the stars, since the same atmosphere makes them invisible. The Fire People Idly he wandered on the Stygian shore, Nor now preserved the walls he loved to shield before. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 The Charles II Inn, on Regent Street, near Piccadilly Circus, was a haven of brightness in an otherwise Stygian London. The Penal Cluster O let my spirit wander o'er Thy sable woods and feel their sighs, And float upon thy Stygian shore, And revel in its mysteries! The Minstrel A Collection of Poems It might well be imagined she was really of Stygian origin. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure They snapped off their torches and crouched in Stygian darkness. The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds The Homeric ghosts gibbered because they were ghosts; the Burgundian ghosts because they were confined to the Stygian coast, and could not cross the stream. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 Scattered over the formation in all directions are numberless curiosities, such as the Devil's Kitchen, Cupid's Cave, and the Stygian Cave. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania But what do they with eyes in these Stygian waters? Natural Law in the Spiritual World The priests did not interfere; like the Egyptian mummies cast on the Stygian shores, the culprit was unworthy of sepulture—besides, who would pay the fees? The Philippine Islands Even when his shade passed across the dark Stygian river, it stooped over the side of the boat that it might try to catch a glimpse of the beloved one in the inky waters. A Book of Myths A new dawn of promise doth redden The rim of our Stygian night; Our bondage is breaking—O blessed awaking To melody merry and bright! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 Than these no deadlier portent nor any fiercer plague of divine wrath hath issued from the Stygian waters; winged things with maidens' countenance, bellies dropping filth, and clawed hands and faces ever wan with hunger. . . . The Aeneid of Virgil Suddenly the last candle winked out, leaving the dismayed avengers in Stygian darkness. Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore It stood against the intensely lit sky and stream like the skeleton of some antediluvian monster, then vanished into Stygian darkness. The Long Roll Ahead lay an indefinite future, of Stygian murk, peopled with melancholy shades. The Tyranny of Weakness To Peace, however, in this vortex of existence, can the Son of Time not pretend: still less if some Spectre haunt him from the Past; and the future is wholly a Stygian Darkness, spectre-bearing. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History This is the land of Shadows, of Sleep, and slumberous Night; no living body may the Stygian hull convey. The Aeneid of Virgil Its magic wand With phosphorescence ting'd that Stygian pool Of chill despair, in which his soul had sank Lower and lower still. Man of Uz, and Other Poems The trap was closed, a bolt shot in it, and she was in Stygian darkness. Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur The absence of life, the stillness, the Stygian darkness ahead seemed suddenly ominous. Where the Sun Swings North Wherever the ray that illumined her figure emanated from, it did not perceptibly dispel the Stygian gloom all about her. Brood of the Witch-Queen I would fulfil the rites of Stygian Jove that I have fitly ordered and begun, so to set the limit to my distresses and give over to the flames the funeral pyre of the Dardanian.' The Aeneid of Virgil For all they could tell to the contrary, they might have been floating in Charon's boat across some Stygian pool. The Captain of the Kansas Greece held it in veneration from the beginning of its authentic history; and that work had blazed with a solar luster out of the Stygian darkness of prehistoric times. A Hero and Some Other Folks A cloud bank floated across the moon, plunging the woods into Stygian darkness. The Plunderer My spirit proud Must to the realm of Proserpine descend, The Stygian shore, the night that knows no end. The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi Shalt thou without burial behold the Stygian waters and the awful river of the Furies? The Aeneid of Virgil A shattering bo-o-oom reverberated through the depths, and clouds of silt darkened the water into Stygian gloom. Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung Hence, loath�d Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language After the Stygian darkness the light came as a queer physical shock, and for the space of a heart-beat I blinked like an owl in broad daylight. The Lost Valley Doubtless the closing eye of many an expiring Greek reflected the pitiless old oarsman plying his frost cold boat across the Stygian ferry, and his failing ear caught the rush of the Phlegethonian surge. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Then he uprears darkling altars to the Stygian king, and lays whole carcases of bulls upon the flames, pouring fat oil over the blazing entrails. The Aeneid of Virgil I had switched off the light; my cubby was Stygian black. Brigands of the Moon Bend the strong influence of high place, to stem The stream that sweeps away the country's weal; The Stygian stream, the torrent of our guilt. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 Then, out of the black depth of my misery a feeble gleam illuminated the Stygian obscurity. Police!!! Aristotle calls Ormuzd Zeus, and Ahriman Haides, the Greek names respectively of the lord of the starry Olympians above, and the monarch of the Stygian ghosts beneath. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life He ended; and by his brother's Stygian streams, by the banks of the pitchy black-boiling chasm he nodded confirmation, and shook all Olympus with his nod. The Aeneid of Virgil Then to the Stygian monarch of the dead The midnight altars he began to spread. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor I was now in the sorriest of plights—enveloped on all sides in Stygian darkness I was unable to discover my lantern, and was thus totally at the mercy of the ruthless elements. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter It fed on the more sensational aspects of certain of the gods brought in: on the enthusiastic rites of Bacchus, on the miracle-working of Aesculapius, on the Stygian mystery of Dis and Proserpina. The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome Some held that their characteristics were divinely pure, intellectual, exalting; others that in abandoned pleasures they were fouler than the Stygian pit. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Ah, broken is the golden bowl, the spirit gone for ever, Let the bell toll—a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river. The Luckiest Girl in the School Son of Anchises, and the god's true heir, Thou see'st Cocytus and the Stygian lake, By whose dread majesty no god will dare His solemn oath attested to forswear. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor I was not at all sure which I liked best—the black, Stygian, tree-lined part of the road we had just left, or the wide ocean of brilliant moonbeams and streaked suggestions. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter At length she chants her incantation to the Stygian Gods, in a voice compounded of all discords, and altogether alien to human organs. The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural The Stygian deeps are past Well-nigh; the light dawns fast. Poems I can only ask my reader,—did you ever upset your ink-bottle, and watch, in helpless agony, the rapid spread of Stygian blackness over your fair manuscript or fairer table-cover? Scenes of Clerical Life "The sacrifice, prepared for Stygian Jove, I purpose now to consummate, and pay The last sad rites, and ease me of my love, And burn the couch whereon the Dardan lay." The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy. The Hundred Best English Poems That power ministrant, —— —— and with quick despatch Unfolds the Stygian doors, that jarring hoarse Slow on their adamantine hinges turn'd, And open'd to their ken the dread abyss, Unfathomably deep, mother of woes. Gustavus Vasa and other poems For some breathless moments after we three were left alone in the Stygian darkness of the wine cellar, no word was spoken. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady The old red house threw its beacon from almost every window that night, and seemed mutely to defy the onslaught of enveloping darkness, whether Plutonic or Stygian. The Stolen Singer The gloom beyond the dozen feet was Stygian and menacing. Hearts and Masks "I live half-way down a precipice, and she five miles away, at the back of a Stygian moor, and incidentally a thousand feet above me." Nobody's Man Thus, they experienced a sort of home-coming, mingled with a peculiar dream-like feeling, that they were arriving on a strange planet, after having been ferried across Stygian currents on a Charon's raft. Atlantis The old Castle was never well lighted; but, with a father and a son in it like Cardoness and his heir, it was sometimes like the Stygian pool itself. Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Light the path to Stygian horrors With the splendors of thy smile. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation O Birdie! speak to me, Speak from thy silent grave; It doth not roll o'er thee, Death's dark and Stygian wave! Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems Compared with the inspired wisdom and infinite meaning of the Word of Truth, they are as moonbeams to the sun, or as Stygian night to the kindling dawn. No and Yes But here both Sun and Moon, in a single instant vanished from before their eyes and left them in Stygian darkness. All Around the Moon By hell's blue flame: By the Stygian Lake: And by Demogorgon's name, At which ghosts quake, Hear and appear! The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 In fact, the unfortunate advertising manager now lived in an atmosphere of Stygian gloom. The Clarion Take this awful wand, With this the infernal ghosts I can command, And strike a terror through the Stygian land. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 And keep from that 'Soul's Tragedy' which did so much harm—oh, that I had bound you by some Stygian oath not to touch it. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 The gloomy shades of Avernus, the tremendous battles of the gods, the dark pictures of Tartarus and the Stygian river, were the supernatural suggestions of a fiery soil. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks, Staying for waftage. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 It proves, then, that the bubble is a portion of the wake of a Stygian craft, and the only Stygian craft that has cleared the Cimmerian Harbor for years is the House-boat—Q.E.D.” The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. "He can not see that our lady does anything but collect curiosities in this her search after art, and so he must needs add a contribution in this Stygian monster we saw yesterday evening." The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem Vindictively champing the end of a cedar penholder, he groped for expression: "Stygian ... sickening ... surfeiting ... slovenly ... sour...." The Day of Days An Extravaganza In a Stygian gloom, Far from sun and ozone, She sits locked in her room, Uncompanioned, alone. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892 Glorious sorceress of the Nile, Light the path to Stygian horrors With the splendors of thy smile. Memories and Anecdotes None came, but I heard instead the sound of muffled voices and marching feet, and saw men moving through the darkness along the brink of the sea like a column of Stygian shades. Tell England A Study in a Generation This is the Stygian stream,—this solution of proto-sulphate of iron, with which we will presently flood the white surface. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 All is bright and cheerful and in striking contrast with the gloom and terror of the Stygian scene we have just left. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers On, on rumbles the stage, down through a lower grade of the canyon, where no moonlight penetrates, and all is of Stygian darkness. Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills No hounds will follow us over that hideous heath and through that Stygian stream. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance The branches now hid the sky; between the flashes there was Stygian gloom, but when the lightning came it showed far aisles of the forest. Audrey The heir of Agamemnon’s line Who dwells by Crisa’s pastoral strand Shall yet return unto his native land; And he shall yet regard his own Who reigns beneath upon his Stygian throne. The Seven Plays in English Verse Now three individual fights raged furiously on the floor of the cave in Stygian darkness. The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border I do not know that this is more dispiriting or its stream more Stygian than another. Italian Journeys Well, but I am just come from Jerusalem, not from the Stygian Shades. Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. Not I, even I, the blood of low parents, my dear Maecenas, shall die; nor shall I be restrained by the Stygian wave. The Works of Horace O virgin, tri-formed goddess fair, The guardian of the groves and hills, Who hears the girls in their despair Cry out in childbirth's cruel ills, And saves them from the Stygian flow! Echoes from the Sabine Farm What spectral figures mocked those staring eyes, Luring them on to Stygian mysteries? Mountain idylls, and Other Poems As many as committed impious sins Shall Stygian Gehenna's depths conceal 'Neath molten earth and dismal Tartarus. Chapters on Jewish Literature Never durst a Muse before Enter that infernal door; Clio, stifled with the smell, Into spleen and vapours fell, By the Stygian steams that flew From the dire infectious crew. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Here nevertheless he is, as you see; has struggled across the Stygian marshes, and now, as a stitched pamphlet "for Friends," cannot be burnt or lost before his time. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I How solitary he is, a lone little bird, flitting from rock to rock through the desolate gorge, like some spirit in a Stygian world. The California Birthday Book Howe'er it be, There is no hand that I would gladlier grasp, Either on earth or in the nether gloom, When the grey keel shall grind the Stygian strand, Than stern Euktemon's. Among the Millet and Other Poems The star of Bethlehem rose, and truth and light Burst on the nations that reposed in night, And chased the Stygian shades with rosy smile That spread from Error’s home, the land of Nile. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland Visions of snakes danced before our minds, the girls shrieked, the torches fell in our frantic scramble and we were left in Stygian darkness. The Gentleman from Everywhere The thorns used to puncture the skin are poisonous, and after the operation the girl has her eyes, cheeks, and lips so horribly swelled that she "looks like a Stygian fury." Primitive Love and Love-Stories Bonnet Phrygian, Cap of sham Liberty, the spectre wears; But he will plunge to depths of darkness Stygian Whom anti-civic Violence ensnares. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890 Swift's part in this Stygian pool of the eighteenth century is rather a difficult one to explain. The Story of Ireland At the fateful words Stygian darkness enveloped the crowded room. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 It was utter, Stygian darkness that lay beyond the pool of blinding light in which I stood. A Minstrel in France Twenty minutes later, shaved and dressed, he descended upon his guest, who sat in torment, on a hall-tree shelf, in Stygian darkness. Bambi Or are the years that Nature yields Confined this side the Stygian wave? Poems The few stores along the avenue were dark, with the exception of the warmly lighted White Star restaurant directly opposite the Stygian spot where Spike's car was parked. Midnight My soul, from this strait prison-house set free, As o'er the Stygian lake it floats along, Thy praises singing still shall hold its way, And make the waters of oblivion stay. Don Quixote Then the ape-man turned and glided into the Stygian darkness of the hut's interior. Son of Tarzan Through the luxuriant, tangled vegetation of the Stygian jungle night a great lithe body made its way sinuously and in utter silence upon its soft padded feet. Beasts of Tarzan What secret way, unknown to any other, had led him into this Stygian realm? The Tarn of Eternity Feeling before him upon the floor with the butt of his spear, Tarzan entered the Stygian gloom. Return of Tarzan Here and there the brilliant rays penetrated to earth, but for the most part they only served to accentuate the Stygian blackness of the jungle's depths. Tarzan of the Apes Shadows lie in Stygian blackness at foot of rock and valley. The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Thewed like some giant god was Carthoris of Helium, yet in the clutches of these unseen creatures of the pit's Stygian night he was helpless as a frail woman. Thuvia, Maid of Mars Then fainting, sick, and yellow-pale, She baths him with her sulph'rous stale; Thus slacked is her Stygian fire, And she vouchsafes now to retire. The Lucasta Poems He had advanced some hundred feet when he came to a flight of steps leading downward into Stygian gloom. Return of Tarzan On into the Stygian darkness beyond he urged his craft. Warlord of Mars Thou had'st said that groans Issued from all the plain, that parted souls Had breathed a life into the guilty soil, That earthly darkness teemed with gibbering ghosts And Stygian terrors. Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars These false ideas have been the procurers of darkness: of the Stygian gloom now overshadowing your Earth. The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation Full length and flat on his face went Roderick into the Stygian pool. Penrod An instant later the panel swung inward before his touch, and standing to one side, the old fellow bowed low as he ushered Barney into the Stygian darkness of the space beyond their vision. The Mad King And as I looked there came bobbing out upon the current from the Stygian darkness of the interior the shell of one of the great, succulent fruits of the sorapus tree. Warlord of Mars Ere his rival died The terrors that enfold the Stygian stream And black Avernus, and the ghostly slain Broke on his sleep. Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars He clutched frantically about for support, but there was none, and with a sickening lunge he plunged downward into Stygian darkness. The Mucker Him followed his next mate; Both glorying to have scaped the Stygian flood As gods, and by their own recovered strength, Not by the sufferance of supernal Power. Paradise Lost At the same instant the girl beside him in the Stygian blackness of the room threw her arms about Barney's neck and drew his face down to hers. The Mad King She indeed even now Death-cold was floating on the Stygian barge! The Georgics What furies didst thou call, What powers of madness and what Stygian Kings Whelmed in th' abyss of hell? Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars No sooner landed, in his den they found The triple porter of the Stygian sound, Grim Cerberus, who soon began to rear His crested snakes, and arm'd his bristling hair. The Aeneid English There was naught else she could do, and so she crawled away into the Stygian blackness behind me. The Lost Continent Occasionally he struck a match, and presently in the fitful glare of one of these he and those directly behind him saw the foot of a ladder that disappeared in the Stygian darkness above. The Mad King From Stygian darkness launched into the light Comes raging pale Tisiphone; she drives Disease and fear before her, day by day Still rearing higher that all-devouring head. The Georgics Driven from Elysian fields and from the plains The blest inhabit, when the war began, I dwell in Stygian darkness where abide The souls of all the guilty. Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars In the neighb'ring grove There stands a tree; the queen of Stygian Jove Claims it her own; thick woods and gloomy night Conceal the happy plant from human sight. The Aeneid English In the Stygian blackness he collided with a chair and paused, leaning upon the back of it. Captivating Mary Carstairs In my youth, I greatly preferred wisdom to gold; and as I approach the Stygian shore, gold has less and less value in my eyes. Philothea A Grecian Romance Otherwise they moved between walls of Stygian darkness. The Bronze Bell The vessel seemed to have lost way altogether, to swim like a spirit ship that Stygian tide. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Now Juno to the Stygian sky descends, Solicits hell for aid, and arms the fiends. The Aeneid English This is certainly the staunch opinion of men of the world; but I call on honour, virtue, and worth, to give the Stygian doctrine a loud negative! The Letters of Robert Burns Here and there a flash of fire from some gun or pistol gave an instant's light to this Stygian hurly-burly. In the Valley There Cerberus howls, and o'er the Stygian flood The dark ship goes; while on the clouded shore With hollow cheek and tresses lustreless, Wanders the ghostly throng. The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse Out of the grotesque there gradually looms the horror of death and the friendless ghost sitting lost and homeless by the Stygian waters. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal She drops her sword; she nods her plumy crest, Her drooping head declining on her breast: In the last sigh her struggling soul expires, And, murm'ring with disdain, to Stygian sounds retires. The Aeneid English Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever Let the bell toll!—a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy De Vere, hast thou no tear?—weep now or never more! Selections from Poe Now, reft beyond the unfriendly Stygian tide, For these he yearns and has no wish beside. The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch Till a hapless ghost he wanders where the Stygian waters roll. The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse Far hence by the deep sunken silence of the Stygian night lies the Cimmerians' home, a land unknown to denizens of upper air, all dark with gloomy squalor. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Son of Anchises, offspring of the gods," The Sibyl said, "you see the Stygian floods, The sacred stream which heav'n's imperial state Attests in oaths, and fears to violate. The Aeneid English This endless procession of good-humoured ruffianism sweeping through the most sacred retreats of Nature, this inroad of every order of the Stygian demi-monde on to the slopes of Olympus, was intensely interesting. The Christian A Story We have Minos visiting the Stygian Lake, where heretics are burning; we meet Cerberus and the harpies, and we accompany the poet across several of the fabulous rivers of Erebus. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities It would seem as if, at the very birth of most of our modern poems, 'The conscious Parcae threw Upon their roseate lips a Stygian hue.' Obiter Dicta Deluge of profanity, drowning dome and tower in Stygian pool of vilest thought,—nothing now left sacred, in the places where once—nothing was profane. Mornings in Florence Thus having said, she sinks beneath the ground, With furious haste, and shoots the Stygian sound, To rouse Alecto from th' infernal seat Of her dire sisters, and their dark retreat. The Aeneid English At length she chaunts her incantation to the Stygian Gods, in a voice compounded of all discords, and altogether alien to human organs. Lives of the Necromancers With blind footsteps we walked fearfully through the Stygian waves that rolled around us. The White Waterfall Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron†, Cocytus; infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases The Grotto of Caripe is the Tartarus of the Greeks; and the Guacharos, which hover over the rivulet, uttering plaintive cries, remind us of the Stygian birds. At Last Now nearer to the Stygian lake they draw: Whom, from the shore, the surly boatman saw; Observ'd their passage thro' the shady wood, And mark'd their near approaches to the flood. The Aeneid English She knows the Stygian abodes, and the counsels of the infernals. Lives of the Necromancers The Digger and Stygian darkness—now—when he was going mad! Snake and Sword A Novel On either side rose cliffs of darkness, and beneath, like sheets of cold moonlight, flowed the Genesee, a Dantesque effect of jet and silver, Stygian in its intensity and indescribably mournful. October Vagabonds There was verily a demand for such; . . . and in spite of the ten thousand ink-fountains which were daily pouring out similar Stygian liquors, the public thirst remained unslaked. Yeast: a Problem Full in the center of the sacred wood An arm arises of the Stygian flood, Which, breaking from beneath with bellowing sound, Whirls the black waves and rattling stones around. The Aeneid English And in that time of Stygian gloom violence was done swiftly, surely, and without mercy; with pity, yes, and with regret. Alias the Lone Wolf You gave utterance to some Druid-like remarks as we crossed the Stygian pool. The Iron Game A Tale of the War Let the bell toll!—a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river. Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works They sank till their fair land became a sty Stygian with moral darkness. The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter A tale illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont But answer you; and in your turn relate, What brought you, living, to the Stygian state: Driv'n by the winds and errors of the sea, Or did you Heav'n's superior doom obey? The Aeneid English All was disorder—a ruined mound of buried hopes!—a blackness dark as the Stygian shore. Marguerite Verne These brackish, threatening deeps remind me of all sorts of weird and uncanny things; Stygian pools—Lethe—what not mystic and terrifying. The Iron Game A Tale of the War If the mournful Rover, Death, Say but once-resign your breath- Vainly of escape you dream, You must pass the Stygian stream. Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton Two shameless eyes—two false, sweet eyes— A sinful brow of sinless white, Shall hurl, thy soul from high clear skies To ME, and Stygian night. Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems The triple porter of the Stygian seat, With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet, And, seiz'd with fear, forgot his mangled meat. The Aeneid English Many mummies of those refused admission to the tombs of their fathers have been dug up along these "Stygian banks." General History for Colleges and High Schools This vanquishes men and immortals; But of the Stygian god moves not the bosom of steel. The Poems of Schiller — Third period Ah then most worthy! with a soul unfed In Stygian night to lie for ever dead. Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton Perish, and learn upon the Stygian stream The difference 'twixt divine and earthly dust! The Poems of Schiller — First period Let every boat be sunk beneath the wave, Each bridge be burned, sooner than carry thee Across the Loire, the boundary of thy realm, The Stygian flood, o'er which there's no return. Maid of Orleans I saw a wide expanse of water, black as ink—a Stygian pool; but no rocks were visible, and it seemed as though I had been carried into a subterranean sea. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder Veiled from each holier eye repose The realms where midnight wraps the dead, And, while the Stygian river flows, No living footstep there may tread! The Poems of Schiller — Third period You are too beautiful for Pluto’s Queen; In the dark Stygian air your blooming cheeks Have lost their roseate tint, and your bright form Has faded in that night unfit for thee. Proserpine and Midas The whole scene seemed some Stygian imagination of Dante. Letters from America Curtains of silk damask, all bespotted with quaintest flowers, each like a page of Chaucer's poetry, hung round his bed, quite other than fit sails for the Stygian boat. Warlock o' Glenwarlock The Grotto of Caripe is the Tartarus of the Greeks; and the guacharos, which hover over the rivulet, uttering plaintive cries, remind us of the Stygian birds. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The “poor innocent thing” was the sonnet beginning “Not on sad Stygian shore,” the first of those I have grouped under the heading “The Life after Death.” The Note-Books of Samuel Butler We stumble and struggle through the Stygian gloom; the merciless blast—an incubus of vengeance—stabs, buffets and freezes; the stinging drift blinds and chokes. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 While all my other sons in barbarous bands Achilles bound, and sold to foreign lands, This felt no chains, but went a glorious ghost, Free, and a hero, to the Stygian coast. The Iliad Soggy, unseen farm lands and gardens to their left, Stygian forests above and to their right. The Rose in the Ring No living being was permitted to enter Charon's boat, or to cross the Stygian river without the passport of the golden bough. Story of Aeneas My soul, from this strait prison-house set free, As o'er the Stygian lake it floats along, Thy praises singing still shall hold its way, And make the waters of oblivion stay. The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 40 The night was black outside; a cool drizzle blew against his face as he peered into the Stygian darkness. Her Weight in Gold Two small lamps served to light the way through the Stygian labyrinth of trees and rocks. Green Fancy He promises that she shall have her desire, and confirms his words with the irrevocable oath, swearing by the Stygian flood. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music On the fifth morning, or the 23rd April, the rain gave us a few hours' respite, during which we managed to wade through the Stygian quagmire reeking with noisomeness to the inundated river-bank. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley She called to them faintly and hurried on, appalled at the thought of possibly losing them in these dreadful underground catacombs where Stygian night forever reigned. A Texas Ranger She thought the dead must feel thus, repeating the vain gestures of the living beside some Stygian shore. The Hermit and the Wild Woman The dark stream which flows down thence waters the Stygian fields, and swells the flood of Cocytus. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 The Stygian flood, and Scylla and Charybdis, are found among the legends of the Caribs. Atlantis : the antediluvian world Let the bell toll!—a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy De Vere, halt thou no tear?—weep now or never more! Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier You never can forget your trip on this river of Stygian darkness. See America First Not a star could blink a wan ray of light into that Stygian pit. The Man of the Forest She appealed by a gesture to Heaven against the Stygian darkness of my mind. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza The swelling sea seems lifted up to the heavens, to scatter its foam among the clouds; then sinking away to the bottom assumes the color of the shoal, a Stygian blackness. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable "Very well," said I. And then it seemed to me that tact required that I should not seem to know that he had been in the superheated jail of the Stygian country. The Enchanted Typewriter Dear to mankind thy fame survives, nor fades Its bloom eternal in the Stygian shades. The Odyssey He seemed a sort of bottomless Stygian vat of mysteries. The Sleuth of St. James's Square And then a lazy, drawling voice—a voice that once had been sweetest music to my ears, but now was loathsome as the croaking of Stygian frogs—addressed me. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza A dark goblin seized her, mounted a Stygian stairway, thrust her into a vault with a glimmer of light in its top and muttered the menacing and cabalistic words "Two dollars!" The Four Million Little did I guess that Boswell was busy working up my scheme in his Stygian home! The Enchanted Typewriter What Greeks new wandering in the Stygian gloom, Wish your Ulysses shared an equal doom! The Odyssey Think not my magic wonders wrought by aid Of Stygian angels summoned up from hell; Scorned and accursed be those who have essayed Her gloomy Dives and Afrites to compel. Zanoni Sure, somewhere o'er the Stygian strait "Panurge" and "Bito," "Tramp" and "Mike," In couchant conclave watch the gate, Till comes the last successive tyke, Acknowledged with the countersign: "Your master was a friend of mine." The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 A meeting was called, with Elizabeth in the chair, and all the best ladies of the Stygian realms were elected members. A House-Boat on the Styx We take no count of a few centuries more or less in our dwelling by the darkling Stygian river. Roundabout Papers Once was my sire, though now, for ever lost, In Stygian gloom he glides a pensive ghost! The Odyssey There is no Parnassus; there is no Olympus; there is no Stygian lake; nor are there any other Elysian Fields than those of Paris. Dona Perfecta A vague dread is for ever associated with the departed, and no dream of Paradise ever lights for the Aino the "Stygian shades." Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Let the bell toll!—a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy De Vere, hast thou no tear?—weep now or never more! The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 If I meet them in my walks by our Stygian river, I give them a wide berth, as that hybrid apothecary fellow would say. Roundabout Papers Which, the whole matter being now so indisputably extinct, shadowy, Stygian, we will not here be guilty of doing; but hasten to the catastrophes, that have still a memorability. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 "Oh! dark Stygian cave forlorn!" quoted I, as feelingly as my friend. The Last of the Plainsmen Light the path to Stygian horrors With the splendour of thy smile. Painted Windows The fourth river, Cocytus, is that which is called by the poets the Stygian river, and passes into and forms the lake Styx, from the waters of which it gains new and strange powers. Phaedo Up eight flights of Stygian stairs Nevada climbed, and rapped firmly at the door numbered "89." Options Subject gone wholly to the Stygian Fens, long since; "forgery" not now imaginable by anybody! History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 Castor and Pollux clasped hands over a Stygian river. The Last of the Plainsmen Alas! every cup was bringing him nearer and nearer to the Stygian pool. Last Days of Pompeii I stalk about her door Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks Staying for waftage. Troilus and Cressida As they entered the Stygian darkness of the forest the girl once again involuntarily shrank closer to the ape-man, and this time Tarzan was aware of the contact. Tarzan the Untamed The whole scandal burst out again with redoubled vehemence; while, in the Palace, the two parties were henceforth divided by an impassable, a Stygian, gulf. Queen Victoria He could see nothing; the place was in Stygian blackness; but it had been close and stifling, and, at least, it gave him more air. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale But at last his search of O-Mai's chambers ended in a small closet in the floor of which was the opening to a spiral runway leading straight down into Stygian darkness. The Chessmen of Mars The universal Stygian quagmire is still there; opulent in women ready to be ruined, and in men ready. Latter-Day Pamphlets To Peace, however, in this vortex of existence, can the Son of Time not pretend: still less if some Spectre haunt him from the Past; and the Future is wholly a Stygian Darkness, spectre-bearing. Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh A whole world, for want of Reform, is drowning and sinking; threatening to swamp itself into a Stygian quagmire, uninhabitable by any noble-minded man. Latter-Day Pamphlets The Idle Workhouse, now about to burst of overfilling, what is it but the scandalous poison-tank of drainage from the universal Stygian quagmire of our affairs? Latter-Day Pamphlets Lan-O joined her and together the two investigated the dark aperture, finding a small platform from which a narrow runway led downward into Stygian darkness. The Chessmen of Mars |
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