world of the dead
Example Sentences
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Lyra tries to hug her friend Roger in the world of the dead, but he passes “like cold smoke through her arms”.
From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2021
Orpheus also voyaged to the world of the dead to seek for his dead wife, just as Lyra journeys there to rescue Roger.
From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2015
Unlike the ghost in a horror story, Macdonald’s hawk will not drag her into the world of the dead.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2015
You enter the ancient Roman world of the dead through a small unmarked steel door next to the Vatican's telephone exchange.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2013
“We are brewing mead for him. There will be despair in the world above, but in the world of the dead there will be only rejoicing.”
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
