What is "demigods"

Usage examples of "demigods".

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.