Charon
noun
the ferryman who conveyed the souls of the dead across the Styx.
Charonian
-
a word derived from
Charon.
Example Sentences
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A minatory wind scuttled through the silent tombstones, and Charonian shadows leapt and grimaced with unspeakable frenzy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Elysian plain, near the Catacombs in Egypt, stood upon the foul Charonian canal; which was so noisome, that every fetid ditch and cavern was from it called Charonian.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant
And the shadow answered, "I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal."
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Edgar Allan Poe
Pliny, speaking of some Charonian hollows in Italy, says, that the exhalations were insupportable.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant
And the shadow answered, "I am Shadow, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal."
From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Edgar Allan Poe
