Nearly divine one

Usage examples of demigod.

I knew that Adena and her tiny band of remaining soldiers would survive the cold of the Ice Age and raise their children to tell them of the demigod who taught them how to make fire.

We have seen earlier in this chapter that in Mangarevan folk-lore a demigod named Tupa was represented as sailing from Havaiki via Mangareva to Hiva.

True demigods, as far beyond us as we are beyond these shaggy apelike fellows here.

He had a momentary vision of the members of the High Government, shadowy demigods at least eleven feet high, pausing in their incomprehensible labors to drop a minislip memo down the chute to Koll.

Then these in turn were relayed to demigods like Polivinosel, Albert Allegory, and a dozen others I had not heard of before then.

Nor do heroes, saints, demigods, and prophets alone comprise the whole roll of our order.

If spirits and demigods were a shorthand for all the pseudorandomness of nature, then God was a shorthand for all the spirits taken together.

Megapentheth the themi-demigod, thon of Queen Ththeneboeia by the demigod Bellerophon and thlayer of the falth mythic hero Pertheuth.

A festive spirit had also infected Heaven, and with the gathering of the gods and the demigods, the heroes and the nobles, the high priests and the favored rajahs and high-ranking Brahmins, this spirit obtained force and momentum and spun like an all-colored whirlwind, thundering in the heads of the First and latest alike.

How they broke Comradeship rules, together delinking from the Comradeship for short periods of time, alone together, able to bestride Kundala like colossi, drunk on their own lust, becoming for a time demigods capable of anything.

The tragedies of the Doughertys were the stuff of endless magazine covers from People to Good Housekeeping to Playboy to Vanity Fair, a national obsession that sometimes seemed destined to evolve into a formidable political mythology in which the Doughertys were not merely ordinary men or women but demigods and demigoddesses, embodiments of virtue, goodwill, and sacrifice.

Demigods, heroes, and monsters: Adapa (Uan) - the first of the seven antediluvian sages who were sent by Ea to deliver the arts of civilization to mankind.

A soft-hearted slave-owner - Social gaiety in the midst of war talk - Beauregard a hero and a demigod - The first shot of the war - Anderson refuses to capitulate - The bombardment of Fort Sumter as seen from the housetops - War steamers arrive in Charleston harbor - "Bull Run" Russell - Demeanor of the negroes .

To strike a descendant of genies, someone practically a demigod, would offend the gods themselves.

Maurice Richard is the best hockey player in the world, the hero of all French Canada, a demigod to schoolboys throughout the province.