Definitions
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- adjective dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades
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Examples
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She had the only light, after all, and I might have wandered those acheronian halls until I collapsed of exhaustion and died of slow starvation.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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She had the only light, after all, and I might have wandered those acheronian halls until I collapsed of exhaustion and died of slow starvation.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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She had the only light, after all, and I might have wandered those acheronian halls until I collapsed of exhaustion and died of slow starvation.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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The intervening years are sucked down these acheronian halls like light into a black hole while you helplessly teeter upon the event horizon, where time is measured by the beating of a fly’s wing in the stagnant air.
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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The intervening years are sucked down these acheronian halls like light into a black hole while you helplessly teeter upon the event horizon, where time is measured by the beating of a fly’s wing in the stagnant air.
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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