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  • Sleep is a metaphor used for death by all sorts of writers, profane and sacred; and by the ancient Christians, the place of burial was called koimete'rion, that is, "a sleeping-place."

    The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08. 1630-1694 1820

  • I often noticed in Greek the suffix -têrion, meaning something like "place of"; hence thusiastêrion, place of sacrifice, or altar.

    languagehat.com: LITTLE LATIN. 2005

  • Well, let me quote a magazine ad from 1946 or so, which is when these things appeared: With the Gladiron you rion sitting down.

    "Things I Found in my Mother-in-Law's House..." ewillett 2008

  • Yet had they laughtered, one on other, undo the end and enjoyed their laughings merry was the times when so grant it High Hila-rion us may too!

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • M. O'BRIEN: In a memo to top managers at the FAA, administrator M.rion Blakey said new management procedures would be implemented to safeguard against abuse by contractors.

    CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2005 2005

  • M. O'BRIEN: There's also a report this morning involving track and field star M.rion Jones.

    CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2004 2004

  • All around them lay gully dwarves paralyzed by the car - rion crawler or stunned by their launch from an Agharpult.

    Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

  • The perpetrators had been caught and hanged, drawn and quartered; the pieces of their bodies fed to the car - rion birds.

    Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

  • Berle M. Schiller, of M.rion, Pennsylvania, was a judge on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania from 1996 through early 2000.

    Schiller And Surrick Named To The Federal Bench ITY National Archives 2000

  • President Clinton announced today that he intends to nominate Willie Grace Campbell and M.rion M. Dawson to be M.mbers of the Board of Directors of the African Development Foundation, and that he intends to designate Campbell as the Foundation's Vice Chair.

    Nominations To African Development Foundation ITY National Archives 1994

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