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Sisyphus task, the mountain and the stone!—the stone, a gloomy image!—it reminds me that I am threatened with somewhat of the same death as the Epirote.

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Other crude issues have appeared in Epirote districts, as yet not very satisfactorily authenticated.

From The Postage Stamp in War by Melville, Fred. J.

St. 3 The bands from Epirus; Crescia, the Epirote chief, commanded a body of Albanian cavalry.—The waning Dudley star; Leicester, who was near the end of his miserable career.—Astrophel;

From The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History by Morley, Henry

The airy high Phæacian towers sink down behind our wake, And coasting the Epirote shores Chaonia's bay we make, And so Buthrotus' city-walls high set we enter in.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

His talk of Epirote guards that would skin their own grandmothers was all billy-o.

From The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan, John