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Meanings of chthonic in английском

Dwelling beneath the surface of the earth.

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Usage of chthonic in английском
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A dank, chthonic smell wafted out at me-followedby a metallic clang.
The Asylum
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These are described in vague but exciting terms, as chthonic artifacts and applications.
The Jennifer Morgue
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It draws on the original chthonic upwelling that underlies all art.
The Irish Times
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The goddess sometimes appears with doves, as uranic, at others with snakes, as chthonic.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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Bertrand used the term 'chthonic monster' to represent the ominous threat of our own fecundity.
Inferno
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Follow deep into the sunken palace... for here, in the darkness, the chthonic monster waits.
Inferno
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They are the bloody emblems of an information, final and chthonic, that exacts a price.
Voice of the Fire
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Bertrand used to tell me he felt like St. George trying to slay the chthonic monster.
Inferno
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Don your protective clothing or seek chthonic safety.'
The dark side of the sun
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Medusa and the entire class of chthonic deities live underground because they're associated directly with Mother Earth.
Inferno
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More chthonic, seething wild and feral.
Blood and Bone
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Potatoes were chthonic, forming their undifferentiated brown tubers unseen beneath the ground, throwing a slovenly flop of vines above.
The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
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Their persistence has kept me underground... forced me to live in purgatory... laboring beneath the earth like a chthonic monster.
Inferno
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The Quo'oto loosed an unholy chthonic cry of pain-itslast living act-anddied, plummeting from the sky toward its watery grave.
The Scarlet Gospels
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Inferno sleeps beneath me, preparing to spring from its watery womb... under the watchful eye of the chthonic monster and all her Furies.
Inferno
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Sister Nebras was a witch, a manipulator of chthonic spirits and the lingering wells of power at ancient shrines, cairns and ritual sites.
Stonewielder
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