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  • Either must he attain the treasure - for so ran the inexorable logic of the shadow-land of the unconscious - or else sink into the all-devouring sea, the blackness eater of the light that swallowed to extinction the sun each night ... the sun that arose ever in rebirth next morning in the east, and that had become to man man's first symbol of immortality through rebirth.

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • We are sailing due westward and the sun, yet two hours high, is blazoning a fiery glory on the sea that spreads and gleams like some broad, jeweled trail, to where the blue and distant shadow-land lifts its carven front aloft, leaving, as it gropes, shades of shadows beyond.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • Not immortality: no fresh existence, to be endured and fought out in some new shadow-land, among unquiet spirits; but deep, deep rest, with the heavy brown earth flattened down above her, and every wish stilled at last.

    Mary Christina 2004

  • Srahmandazi, is just the same as this world in all other particulars, save that it is dimmer, a veritable shadow-land where men have not the joys of life, but only the shadow of the joy.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • She hadn't always been like this; her world hadn't always revolved around the shadow-land of numbers betting.

    Far Beyond the Stars Steven Barnes 2000

  • She hadn't always been like this; her world hadn't always revolved around the shadow-land of numbers betting.

    Far Beyond the Stars Steven Barnes 2000

  • And to-day, as we meet our Reverend Mother in this scene of old affections, the stupendous struggle has already receded into the shadow-land of

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various

  • But as the West emerges from the shadow-land of the middle ages the more definite becomes its superiority over the East.

    Christianity and Islam C.H. Becker

  • Dear old Abe, he was come to the end of his course, the shades of death were upon him, he was crossing the narrow strip of neutral ground that divides the two worlds; friends stood in the margin of the shadow-land, watching him feebly lift his hand as he went over, till he could lift it no more, and when the signal dropt mourners knew that Old Abe was safe through.

    Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow F. Jewell

  • This was a shadow-land over which Sir Lucien Pyne presided, and which must be kept hidden from Monte Irvin; and it was not until she thus contemplated cutting herself adrift from it all that she perceived the Gordian knot which bound her to the drug coterie.

    Dope Sax Rohmer 1921

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