What is "cathartes"

Usage examples of "cathartes".

The three members of the agronomic team were there, sitting near Cathartes on the floor, whispering among themselves.

The house that the council had given to Cathartes and the others was at the outskirts of the village.

But Cathartes was probably a creationist of some kind, or a derivationist.

Yet he was moving his lips a little as he listened to Cathartes, perhaps repeating certain phrases.

She admired their different expressions: Cathartes red with anger, pacing back and forth.

Professor Benjamin Cathartes, working at the new plantation eighty miles east of here, has claimed to have discovered an old relic, which disappeared from Charn in revolutionary times.

Benjamin Cathartes stood at the window of the company weight room, looking down on the maidan.

That was enough, Cathartes thought, to make them the most depressing section of the whole.

Since his arrival at the mine five days before, Cathartes had spent much of his time here.

To Cathartes there was something contemptible about how close he was to dissolution.

Turning to look, Cathartes now conceded that the amiable but foolish student, whom he had taken in that first night in the village and nursed until his fever broke, was not completely gone.

As he watched them go, Cathartes found himself wondering whether in the coming crisis they could be depended on, whether they were capable of more than the routine punishment of strikers and trade unionists.

As he completed it, his relaxation left him, and when Cathartes struck the side of the desk with the folded newspaper, he flinched again.

Again Cathartes let his anger rise, and the student took one step backward away from him.

The guards took him away, leaving Cathartes alone inside the weight room.