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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

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 Bryant, Jacob

It gave name to a stream, on which it stood; and which was also called the Charonian branch of the Nile, and the river Acheron.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Bryant, Jacob

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 Poe, Edgar Allan

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 Poe, Edgar Allan