单词 | Acherontic |
例句 | So it’s certainly correct to call Mr. Scarlett’s work “Acherontic,” a word whose dictionary meanings include “infernal, gloomy, waiting to cross Acheron, moribund.” Dance Review: Underworld Notes, in the Homeric Sense 2014-02-02T22:31:20Z The artist had evidently a picture of Charon and his Acherontic boat in his mind, which was thus reproduced in his feverish dreams. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z I wondered how of late our Acherontic shore Grew thin, and hell unpeopled of her store; Charon, for want of use, forgot his oar. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 Dekker observes, in his "News from Hell," 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 Fashioned for fight In the Pit Acherontic: Many have grappled me, Poised me and thrust me Into the glowing, The flashing and furious Heart of the fire. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 18, 1892 And they lurk and they tremble and cower, and stab as they lurk from behind, Like shapes from a pit Acherontic by hatred and horror made blind. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 23, 1890 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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