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River crossed by Charon
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styx
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In Greek mythology , Styx (; ) is a deity and a river that forms the boundary between Earth and the Underworld (the domain often called Hades, which also is the name of its ruler ). The rivers Styx, Phlegethon , Acheron , Lethe , and Cocytus all converge ...
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Styx \Styx\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Class. Myth.) The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.
Usage examples of styx.
The two moons, Hestia and Styx, when aligned, created a period when access to power was far, far easier.
The man we believe them to have contacted for the job is known in the trade by the name of Charon, after the Styx ferryman.
A bittersweet passage, Ferries ev'rywhere upon that cold and cloud-torn Styx, Bells dolefully a-bang in the Murk, strange little gaff-rigg'd coasters and lighters veering all over the Water, stack'd high abovedecks with Cargo, a prosperous Hell.
Fraker had dictated effectively reduced Rick's death to observations about the craniocerebral trauma he'd sustained, with a catalogue of abrasions, contusions, small-intestine avulsions, mesenteric lacerations, and sufficient skeletal damage to certify Rick's crossing of the River Styx.
Fraker had dictated effectively reduced Rick's death to observations about the craniocerebral trauma he'd sustained, with a catalogue of abrasions, contusions, small-intestine avulsions, mesenteric lacerations, and sufficient skeletal damage to certify Ricks crossing of the River Styx.
And in the midst thereof did horror dwell,And darkenesse dredd, that neuer viewed day,Like to the balefull house of lowest hell,In which old Styx her aged bones alway,Old Styx the Grandame of the Gods, doth lay.
But such a star hath influence in his sword As rules the skies and countermands the gods More than Cimmerian Styx or Destiny: And then shall we in this detested guise, With shame, with hunger, and with horror stay, Griping our bowels with retorqued thoughts, And have no hope to end our ecstasies.
That inky Dark—gulf between aham and Asti—blackest Styx, abyss between Lord and Man.
That inky Dark-- gulf between aham and Asti--blackest Styx, abyss between Lord and Man.
That inky Dark–gulf between aham and Asti–blackest Styx, abyss between Lord and Man.
Los oscuros amos fueron desplazados hacia el sur del gran río Styx, Nilus o Nilo, que fluye hacia el norte desde las sombrías tierras interiores del continente, se vuelve casi en ángulo recto y sigue hacia el oeste a través de las praderas de Shem hasta desembocar en el gran mar.
Even in the shade of a huge old Indian laurel with roots no doubt deep enough to tap the Styx, I couldn't pretend that I was being coddled in a sauna.
The ground these warehouses stood upon sloped marshily down to the low muddy banks of the Styx.
Inch and, of course, Neale of the Styx, followed closely by Captain Peel of the Relentless.
She herself polices text – against men like the Moriarty-like Acheron Styx, whose current scam is to hold the minor characters of Dickens' novels to ransom, entering the manuscript and abducting them for execution and extinction one by one.