The nasty one, a cursed land of screaming, flames, and punishment, was known as the Tartarus Plains. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference
22 A detailed and most curious account of this region, which he calls Tartarus, is given by Angustine. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
The Furies are trapped in a place called Tartarus. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Furies] Reference
When Cronus came to power he imprisoned the Cyclopes in Tartarus. From Wordnik.com. [Ares Troubles Mount - NASA Watch] Reference
When Cronus came to power among the Titans, he imprisoned the Cyclopes in Tartarus. From Wordnik.com. [Attack of the Law Deans: How Legal Education was Subverted] Reference
In the end, the only way to save humankind was for the Fates to lock their sisters into a prison land called Tartarus. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Furies] Reference
Daemonologie (that is to say, in their doctrine concerning Daemons,) and after them, the Romans called Tartarus; of which Virgill sayes. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan] Reference
They’re the sisters of the Three Fates, and they’re locked away in this place called Tartarus. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Furies] Reference
There is another place called "Tartarus" (2 Pet.ii. 4) — unless Tartarus is another name for the Abyss. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Revelation] Reference
Romans, called Tartarus; of which Virgil says. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan] Reference
But thou art good; I am dark and foul as Tartarus!. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Hence a road leads to Tartarus and Acheron's wave. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Emerging from Cocytus dark and from Tartarus murky. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
These are groping about in darkness under Tartarus. From Wordnik.com. [Clouds] Reference
First, one glimpse of Tartarus as conceived by Fénelon. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
We'll take the Tartarus and leave to fight again another day!. From Wordnik.com. [The Runaway Asteroid] Reference
Tartarus if he would not confess the truth, but all to no purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Horus with Set is merged with the Destruction, for the son of Tartarus. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
Ah! Terrors from Tartarus, those to which only Bad Temper can blind them. From Wordnik.com. [Punch Among the Planets] Reference
Hermes to throw him into Tartarus, and bind him to an ever-revolving wheel. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Tartarus, that portion of the lower world which served as the subterranean dungeon of the gods. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Thou art one of my Furies, and seizest me by the middle, that thou mayest hurl me into Tartarus. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
Tartarus was a vast and gloomy expanse, as far below Hades as the earth is distant from the skies. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
At the word, every man leaped forward on the full run, yelling as if all the spirits of Tartarus were loosed. From Wordnik.com. [Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South] Reference
Glutted with horror Hercules at length quitted gloomy Tartarus and beheld in front of him still another river. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
For I am not held in cruel Tartarus among wailing ghosts, but inhabit Elysium and the sweet societies of the good. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Elysium and Tartarus, the eternal mansions of the good and bad, the strongest incentive to virtue and penalty to vice. From Wordnik.com. [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference
In front was the manufacturing center and beyond that was the launching pad where the Tartarus stood in solitary splendor. From Wordnik.com. [The Runaway Asteroid] Reference
Tartarus; the depth would be but a little way from the surface; depth is not always intensity of darkness, and never of colour. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
In the interior sat the dread judge Rhadamanthus, who declared to each comer the precise torments which awaited him in Tartarus. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
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