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  • In Greek mythology, the River Styx is a river that forms the boundary between Earth and the Underworld, or Hades.

    unknown title 2009

  • Baby Cart at the River Styx is the most enjoyable slice of the series; famous scenes in addition to Sayaka's team's slaying of Junai include Sayaka rapidly running backwards across fields towards a forest to escape Ogami - a truly bizarre sight indeed, Ogami's execution of a Ninja hiding in a cupboard in an adjoining room by flinging his lethal blade through a panel and cupboard door, the notoriously audacious moment where Daigoro's cart sprouts wheel blades and careers towards a group of aggressors (with hilarious results!), the use of Daigoro as a hostage to be dropped into a bottomless well if Ogami doesn't surrender (which, interestingly, seems to disturb some sort of maternal instinct within Sayaka), and the stunning sequence where the Awa clansmen arise from beneath the sand dunes to confront the Hidari brothers, masters of the Takeuchi Style harness techniques, and affectionately known as the "Gods of Death".

    DVD Times 2009

  • In the last song, "Shenandoah," Ms. Upshaw sat on a bed with a pole as if in a boat rowing across the River Styx.

    At Ojai, New Music Was Once Its Strength David Mermelstein 2011

  • It groaned to a halt outside the bunkhouse, hissing and steaming like an evil dragon from the River Styx.

    Buffalo Bob and the Honey Dipper Michael Gillan Maxwell 2011

  • In the last song, "Shenandoah," Ms. Upshaw sat on a bed with a pole as if in a boat rowing across the River Styx.

    At Ojai, New Music Was Once Its Strength David Mermelstein 2011

  • Like Charon the Ferryman who took the souls of the dead across the River Styx in the underworld, Virginia and Maryland are turning to tolls to build and maintain roads.

    John B. Townsend II: The Fuel Tax, Toll Roads, And Washington's Protracted Silly Season John B. Townsend II 2011

  • She stared stonily ahead when he escorted her out of the Underworld in the chariot, back across the River Styx, and up Mount Olympus.

    PERSEPHONE THE PHONY JOAN HOLUB 2010

  • On their way out of the dorm, the four friends grabbed winged sandals, then raced toward the River Styx.

    PERSEPHONE THE PHONY JOAN HOLUB 2010

  • Turning herself into a dove, she grabbed her bag in her beak and dropped down to the River Styx.

    PERSEPHONE THE PHONY JOAN HOLUB 2010

  • Turning herself into a dove, she grabbed her bag in her beak and dropped down to the River Styx.

    PERSEPHONE THE PHONY JOAN HOLUB 2010

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