tartarean

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This said, the tartarean impostor and his companions at once vanished with a great tumult, leaving behind them

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  • This said, the tartarean impostor and his companions at once vanished with a great tumult, leaving behind them —  Among My Books First Series
  • For it could not have been alone the privation, the infinite toil, the unending suspense in constant menace of death that assaulted their courage; these they had looked for; it was rather the unlifted gloom of those tartarean depths, the unspeakable horrors of an endless valley of the shadow of death, in which every step was irrevocable .... —  The Life Radiant
  • These tartarean fumes, these dreadful forebodings, these heart-rending sights, and above all, my horrid dreams, I cannot endure them. —  Select Temperance Tracts
  • Rufinus is a power of darkness, whose tartarean wickedness surpasses even the wickedness of the Furies of hell; Stilicho is an angel of light. —  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
  • The waxwings and cedar birds carry seeds of our tartarean honeysuckles, purple barberries and many other kinds four miles distant, where we see them spring up on the lake shore, where these birds fly in flocks to feed on the juniper berries. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
 

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