cimmerian
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John Milius's 1982 fantasy epic Conan the Barbarian cast the former Mr Olympia as Robert E Howard's unstoppable Cimmerian warrior.
From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013
Schwarzenegger is almost as much of a self-made man as the great Cimmerian himself.
From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013
He is stoic about the deaths of friends and relatives and accepts as "part of the game" the high possibility that he may be crushed, burned, suffocated or drowned in his own Cimmerian tomb.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before he even had time to yell, he dropped like a rock into the Cimmerian bowels of the glacier.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
The Cimmerian lord, who was an excellent natural philosopher, diverted himself in conversing with the phœnix, at such times as the princess chose to retire to her own apartment.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
