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  • He had several reasons, reducing employee turnover being one of them, but the Earth-shaker was, "So they can afford to buy my cars."

    Nicholas Carroll: The Broken Covenant Between Rich and Middle Class Nicholas Carroll 2011

  • He had several reasons, reducing employee turnover being one of them, but the Earth-shaker was, "So they can afford to buy my cars."

    Nicholas Carroll: The Broken Covenant Between Rich and Middle Class Nicholas Carroll 2011

  • Lord Pelagaeus the Earth-shaker was given lordship over the inner ocean, where life is, and Oceanus the outer.

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • 'The Earth-shaker' are instances of intensive proper names.

    Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

  • Nay come hither, Odysseus, that I may set by thee a stranger’s cheer, and speed thy parting hence, that so the Earth-shaker may vouchsafe it thee, for his son am I, and he avows him for my father.

    Book IX Homer 1909

  • ‘Even so he spake, but I answered him, and said: “Would god that I were as sure to rob thee of soul and life, and send thee within the house of Hades, as I am that not even the Earth-shaker will heal thine eye!

    Book IX Homer 1909

  • First Nausithous was son of Poseidon, the Earth-shaker, and of Periboea, the comeliest of women, youngest daughter of great-hearted Eurymedon, who once was king among the haughty Giants.

    Book VII Homer 1909

  • They trust to the speed of their swift ships, wherewith they cross the great gulf, for the Earth-shaker hath vouchsafed them this power.

    Book VII Homer 1909

  • And it came to pass that the girdler of the world, the Earth-shaker, put on the shape of the god, and lay by the lady at the mouths of the whirling stream.

    Book XI Homer 1909

  • You see, Earth-shaker, the Corinthians had no gold at the time, so Lysippus made you of paltry bronze; Dog - face is a whole gold-mine richer than you.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

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