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"___ in the Underworld" (Offenbach opera)
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orpheus
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Orpheus is an American rock band originally from Worcester, Massachusetts that enjoyed popularity in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orpheus \Or"phe*us\, prop. n. [L. Orpheus, Gr. ?.] (Gr. Myth.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.
Usage examples of orpheus.
Lang, and discuss some ideas I have about Orpheus fiddling Eurydice out of the infernal regions.
Earth objects, the Orpheus was the tiniest speck compared with the mass of the collapsar it was to set in motion.
And they produce a host of books written by Musaeus and Orpheus, who were children of the Moon and the muses -- that is what they say -- according to which they perform their ritual, and persuade not only individuals, but whole cities, that expiations and atonements for sin may be made by sacrifices and amusements which fill a vacant hour, and are equally at the service of the living and the dead.
Beyond it, the light of Orpheus 1 glinted off ships which, to their practiced eyes, were clearly too small to have any business in this brutal new eras battle fleets.
In Orphee, a film he had first seen at age thirteen, Death had come for the modern beat poet Orpheus in the form of a woman in a large black limousine.
She searched the sea of faces around her for Caro while Orpheus chose a position in the middle of the crowd.
In August, Penny left for a monthlong retreat at The Orpheus Center in Port Townsend, a sort of multiples' halfway house that specialized in reintegration.
Make Offen prove beyond any doubt that the two horses at Orpheus literally are Moviemaker and Centigrade.
Did she tell him that I was certain the horses that he has at Orpheus Farm are Moviemaker and Centigrade?
Thousands of different autocatalytic chemical networks must have arisen soon after the formation of Orpheus, but as the ocean chemistry and the climate changed in the Vegan system's early traumatic millennia, the ability to respond to selection pressure had itself been selected for, and the carpets were the result.
But yet these theologues worshipped the gods, and were not worshipped as gods, although the city of the ungodly is wont, I know not how, to set Orpheus over the sacred, or rather sacrilegious, rites of hell.