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Examples
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And how does it happen that in the time of Herodotus there dwelt near this mountain-chain a people called the Atlantes, probably a remnant of a colony from Solon's island?
Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866
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Earlier plans to launch the shuttle "Atlantes" got scrubbed because of Ernesto.
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"Atlantes," this name being especially applied to the inhabitants of
Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866
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Thou mayst laugh till thou lettest the letter fall, if thou wilt, but it reminded me of the magician Atlantes on his hippogriff with a knight trussed up behind him, in the manner Ariosto has depicted that matter.
Redgauntlet 2008
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The ceiling would be supported by Atlantes and Nereids, symbolically representing the universe of the galaxies.
Non-sequitur of the day. codepope 2005
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There is a people named Atlantes, of the mounte Athlas, by the whiche they dwell.
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My arms were peeled even in the month of December; and my companions, panting with the heat, like the Atlantes of
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Curiously, Tula's idiosyncratic warrior statues, the great Atlantes, are apparently representations not of Tezcatlipoca, but of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, the Plumed Serpent in his guise as Morning Star.
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Curiously, Tula's idiosyncratic warrior statues, the great Atlantes, are apparently representations not of Tezcatlipoca, but of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, the Plumed Serpent in his guise as Morning Star.
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Started out to become an architect, turned out in - stead to be one of the Atlantes of chemistry, most of the organic wing of that useful edifice bearing down on top of his head forever-not just under the aspect of IG, but of World, assuming that's a distinction you observe, heh, heh ....
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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