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  • noun Plural form of Cimmerian.

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Examples

  • Well you should, since the Cimmerians are the last descendants of the people of Atlantis.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Reis O'Brien 2009

  • Well you should, since the Cimmerians are the last descendants of the people of Atlantis.

    Conan Fan Fiction! Cromsblood 2009

  • The Cimmerians were a race dwelling beyond the ocean stream, in utter darkness.

    MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous

  • Taurida; and further, Herodotus says, that a nation called Cimmerians,

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832 Various

  • There is the abode of the people called the Cimmerians, wrapped in shadow and mist; for never doth the sun look down upon them with his rays, neither when he climbs the starry sky, nor yet when he goeth down unto the place of his rest.

    Stories from the Odyssey

  • We are told that these broad levels were formerly inhabited by a people called the Cimmerians, who were driven out by the Scythians and went -- it is hard to tell whither.

    Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877

  • Crom only knew ” and of all the gods Conan had ever heard of, the cold, grim lord of the Cimmerians was the least likely to answer the questions of mewling humans.

    Conan and The Gods of The Mountain Green, Roland 1993

  • There are no longer Cimmerians and Ethiopians, in wide - stretching lands, awaiting them.

    The Shrinkage of the Planet 2010

  • The Great Sea, the Broad Sea, the Boundless Sea; the Ethiopians, "dwelling far away, the most distant of men," and the Cimmerians, "covered with darkness and cloud," where "baleful night is spread over timid mortals."

    The Shrinkage of the Planet 2010

  • Conan: 20s-30s, Caucasian, the last of the Cimmerians, out for vengeance on Khalar Singh, a formidable warlord and warrior in his 40s or 50s, for whom the producers are "open to all ethnicities".

    Archive 2009-11-01 Reis O'Brien 2009

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