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  • "Cyclop," said Ulysses, "if any ask thee who imposed on thee that unsightly blemish in thine eye, say it was Ulysses, son of Laertes: the king of Ithaca am I called, the waster of cities."

    The Adventures of Ulysses Charles Lamb 1804

  • _] "Cyclop," he said, "take a bowl of wine from the hand of your guest: it may serve to digest the man's flesh that you have eaten, and show what drink our ship held before it went down.

    The Adventures of Ulysses Charles Lamb 1804

  • Over lunch today I ended up explaining my love of Cyclop.

    It’s true, Cyclops is my favorite X-men 2009

  • Over lunch today I ended up explaining my love of Cyclop.

    2009 February 2009

  • There he is now, hoisting and hoisting again, a Cyclop, enormous, with a torso that seems built in one to the knees.

    The Growth of the Soil 2003

  • There dwelt this Cyclop chief, in a cavern of the rocks.

    Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

  • The Cyclop, Leontyevna, Sergius Andreevich's servant, tramped in heavily with her man's boots from the Labour Exchange; her solitary eye peered searchingly into Anna Andreevna's stove.

    Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

  • Leontyevna, the Cyclop maid from the Exchange, lay down on a bench in the kitchen to rest from the day's work, said her prayers, and fell into a sound sleep.

    Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

  • She peered into the stove and discovered that Leontyevna, the maid -- a one-eyed Cyclop -- had filled it with birch-wood, whereas it had been agreed that the rotting timber from the summer-house should be used as fuel first.

    Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

  • The Cyclop flew into a rage and slapped her thighs.

    Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

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