Lethean
- a word derived from Lethe.
Example Sentences
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It's less a lethal than a Lethean weapon, ie something resembling the river Lethe's mind-numbing waters which induce eternal forgetfulness of everything but better films on the same subject.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2010
You ask me, friend, Why I don't send The long since due-and-paid-for numbers; Why, songless, I As drunken lie Abandoned to Lethean slumbers.
From Echoes from the Sabine Farm by Field, Roswell Martin
Why stay, a ghost, on the Lethean Wharf, Envelop'd in Scotch mist and gloomy fogs?
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas
This Lethean influence could hardly be that of the ailantus-tree alone.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various
To low melodious thunders then they fade; Their murmuring lullabies all ears invade; Peace takes the Chair; the portal Silence keeps; No motion stirs the dark Lethean deeps— Washoe has spoken and the Senate sleeps.
From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose
