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- adjective poetic
Saturnian ; applied to the North Polar Sea.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Leeds needs more of an identity, says Darren Cronian over at My Life in Leeds as he sets out some of the issues the city faces.
Leeds today: Library closures, Murgatroyds and Leeds Digital Festival 2011
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But when they had passed near the mount Angurum, and the cliff of Cauliacus, far from the mount Angurum, round which Ister, dividing his stream, falls into the sea on this side and on that, and the Laurian plain, then indeed the Colchians went forth into the Cronian sea and cut off all the ways, to prevent their foes 'escape.
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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But when they had passed near the mount Angurum, and the cliff of Cauliacus, far from the mount Angurum, round which Ister, dividing his stream, falls into the sea on this side and on that, and the Laurian plain, then indeed the Colchians went forth into the Cronian sea and cut off all the ways, to prevent their foes 'escape.
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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Pytheas had opened up the road to the north to the Scandinavians by discovering Iceland (the famous Thule) and the _Cronian_ Ocean, of which the mud, the shallow-water, and the ice render the navigation dangerous, and where the nights are as light as twilight.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Jules Verne 1866
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Apollo to Olympia, says, _that they both came to the Petra Elibatos upon the lofty Cronian mount: there Apollo bestowed upon Iämus a double portion of prophetic knowledge_.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759
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Inspired by a bad experience with a high-street travel agent, the blog began as a way for Cronian to vent, and developed over time into one of the UK's best travel blogs.
Home 2010
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Cronian coins the blog one of the best corporate blogs in the industry he means it and I concur!
Happy Hotelier 2008
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Cronian coins the blog one of the best corporate blogs in the industry he means it and I concur!
Happy Hotelier 2008
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As when two polar winds, blowing adverfe Upon the Cronian fea, together drive 299
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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Angurum, round which Ister, dividing his stream, falls into the sea on this side and on that, and the Laurian plain, then indeed the Colchians went forth into the Cronian sea and cut off all the ways, to prevent their foes’ escape.
The Argonautica 2008
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