Word: erebus
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...Involuntarily the question arises what were the English seeking in our territorial waters in 1919? Without any formal declaration of war they attacked us, sank our ships and bombarded our forts. The English monitor Erebus frequently fired her 15-in. guns at our fort, Red Hill. The English broke into our house by the right of might to kill the workers and peasants and to turn back the wheel of revolution...
Hurrying down the darkness of Erebus...
...unfortunate men, what horror is this that has happened? Shrouded in night are faces and heads; to the knees it descends. See too crowded with ghosts is the porch, ghosts hurrying down to the darkness of Erebus. Out of heaven, withered and gone is the sun, and a poisonous mist is arising...
...urns were erected in Rhode Island, no black shells were dropped therein, but nonetheless 21 of her citizens went forth, last June, into exile, saying they feared for their lives. Last week, the exiles returned, their Odyssey completed, though one had visited Erebus never to return, and another tarried with the Lottophagi-in Worcester, Mass...
...some of the finest ale in England. The bad fare at Harvard has the effect of sending many students into Boston a great deal more than is desirable, for, astounding as it may seem, Cambridge, a town of sixty thousand inhabitants, is, as Ford wrote of Spain, "a gastronomic erebus," and boasts nothing better in the way of a restaurant than what would be deemed quite fourth-rate in New York. Moreover, the poor food induces, in the words of Cambridge's poet, "restless, unsatisfied longing," which is too apt to be satisfied at the numerous drug stores, at which...