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  • Teleporters, telekinetics, telepaths, hypnos, telescopic vision, x-ray vision and other talents being employed all turn out to be a bit much for them.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Secret of the Time Vault - Clark Darlton Blue Tyson 2006

  • I helped the psychoperator get gas helmets over the heads. of the hypnos.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • Of our nine sensitives, three-the boy and two women-were wide-awakes; the other six were hypnos.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • The technician tied the other two wide-awakes into our flanking craft in the battle line, then turned his attention to the hypnos.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • There is a profounder calm than appears to the eye, in the quiet cottages scattered up and down among the peaceful valleys; the rest of death is more untroubled than the marble face which it leaves as its visible symbol; and sleep, "the minor mystery of death," ([Greek: hypnos ta mikra tou thanutou mystêria] [4]) has a deeper significance than is revealed in any external token.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

  • Hypnosis did not come to be known by this name until Scottish physician James Braid used the Greek root for sleep, hypnos, to create the term.

    FXstreet.com contact@tradingacademy.com (Online Trading Academy 2010

  • Hypnosis did not come to be known by this name until Scottish physician James Braid used the Greek root for sleep, hypnos, to create the term.

    FXstreet.com contact@tradingacademy.com (Online Trading Academy 2010

  • Hypnosis did not come to be known by this name until Scottish physician James Braid used the Greek root for sleep, hypnos, to create the term.

    FXstreet.com contact@tradingacademy.com (Online Trading Academy 2010

  • SWEET. walter sings the ghost of hypnos past - 50 min ago egttm - with flo and eddie - guest stars!!! sbts - why did they never release it?

    BC Bloggers 2009

  • One advantage of using a different vocabulary is to avoid the baggage associated with "hypnosis" in much the same way the term "hypnotism" was coined to be more descriptive of the state albeit, Braid regretted the term later and belatedly wished to change it to monoideism which is certainly more descriptive as hypnosis had NOTHING whatsoever to do with genuine hypnos, sleep and to avoid the negative baggage and sloppy thinking that had grown up around "animal magnetism" and "Mesmerism."

    Life of Brian: 2005

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