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eidolon

[ahy-doh-luhn] / aɪˈdoʊ lən /












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The most famous eidolon appeared in Greek literature as the likeness of another Helen - Helen of Troy.

From Washington Times Mar. 27, 2017

Helen doesn’t ask anyone at Prime Space to explain her mission’s name, Eidolon, but if she’d checked Wikipedia, she would have learned that an eidolon is a phantom in human form.

From Washington Times Mar. 27, 2017

Contrast the Belvedere with the Venus de Milo, the very eidolon of the female form, the Queen of the Loves; the head too small for great intellect but big enough for the greatest love.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the eidolon was gone, he felt as if a hot spike had been removed from his forehead.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

“Sorry for what? It was the eidolon who attacked—” “Not about that.”

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

She was laughing now, but with all the gay coquetry of youth, not merely the eidola of her own.

From Mrs. Balfame A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

At the close of the prescribed period they are reunited, and their fortunate lover, who has hitherto been distracted between the twelve eidola, is blessed with the compound Rosanie.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury

Among his eidola of the den, the tribe, the forum, the theatre, etc.,

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

The strong imagination which perceives definitely and realises vividly will not tolerate that obscurity so dear to all those who worship the eidola of the cave.

From Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. by Standish O'Grady

“I trapped the eidolons inside the wiring,” Leo said.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

She’d made the eidolons appear, but what now?

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Eventually the eidolons would realize they couldn’t get in.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

He scanned the crowds of tourists, wondering if they were regular mortals or monsters in disguise, like those eidolons who’d chased them in Rome.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

The eidolons started pounding on the gates again.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan




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