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
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman Lyra and Will’s journey to the land of the dead is very like a journey to Hades, the ancient world of the dead.
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
The gods would not consent to his entering the world of the dead a second time, while he was still alive.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
