Stygian


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hellish

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dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades

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There was naught else she could do, and so she crawled away into the Stygian blackness behind me.
Him followed his next Mate, Both glorying to have scap't the STYGIAN flood As Gods, and by their own recover'd strength, Not by the sufferance of supernal Power.
Bertha Kircher was no coward, whatever else she may have been, but as night began to close down around her she could not shut out from her mind entirely contemplation of the terrors of the long hours ahead before the rising sun should dissipate the Stygian gloom--the horrid jungle night--that lures forth all the prowling, preying creatures of destruction.
Bebbington delivers it all, unsparing of himself and us, from the stygian bass to the hints of reconciliation and triumph that emerge in the finale.
May implicitly recognizes as much in her conclusion, wherein she acknowledges that "some glimmers of hope" (190) brighten an otherwise Stygian landscape.
King James I of England followed the suit slapping 4000% tax increase (bless his soul!) and published his treatise 'Counterblaste tobacco' stating that smoking is 'a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless'.
We will sink even lower into a stygian darkness where we will no longer be able to discern the fine erasable line between civil rights and state wrongs, between the intoxicant of power and the delirium of tyranny.
Stygian Acheron.Styxx.And Now - A Dark-Hunter Novel by Sherrilyn Kenyon
The gratitude for light must harp back to a time when man discovered fire, fire that lit the stygian walls of a cave on a pitch black night with all kinds of danger outside or the relieving sense that the sun was not the only thing that could light the way as man learned to make torches.
Born the grandson of the Greek god Apollo and through an act of extreme violence by the last surviving Atlantean goddess, "Stygian" is the story of the 11,000 year life span of a struggling demigod that reveals the origins of vampires called 'Daimons', the origin and purpose of Dark Hunters, and the repeated conflicts between pantheons, as well as individual clashes between the gods.
With Mr Modi now offering a 'new beginning' to the putative incoming government there may be, yet again, a glimmer of light in the stygian gloom of bilateral relations.
He wrote that he hated the smell and that "this stygian habit fills your lungs full of tar"!
In the Stygian gloom of School Lane, the policemen came upon a scene of pandemonium; hysterical girls screaming, drunken lads laughing and jeering, and eventually Fred found the victim: a small slim girl of 17 named Norma, surrounded by a gaggle of mostly sympathetic juveniles.
James Wan, the director of The Conjuring 2, was born in Malaysia, but began his filmmaking career in Australia, where his first feature film, Stygian, won the Best Guerrilla Film citation at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in 2000.