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  • It was just that Mike, brilliant, mercurial, irreverent Mike, was a little older and a little higher in the Shipboard pantheon than young Merin Aspic.†   (source)
  • Zeus needed someone to blame, so of course he'd picked the handsomest, most talented, most popular god in the pantheon: me.†   (source)
  • These deities are the pantheon of Dilmun; i. e., this act breaks the cycle of incest and creates a new race of male and female gods that can reproduce normally.†   (source)
  • On one of those Sundays he visited the new cemetery adjacent to the church, where the residents of La Manga were building their sumptuous pantheons, and his heart skipped a beat when he discovered the most sumptuous of all in the shade of the great ceiba trees.†   (source)
  • The people of Haiti had created their own complex religion, Voodoo—with a rather distant supreme diety and a host of other gods, a pantheon including Catholic saints.†   (source)
  • If Frito-Lay, for example, has a new kind of tortilla chip, they need to know where their chip prototype fits into the tortilla chip pantheon: How much of a departure is it from their other Doritos varieties?†   (source)
  • There is an almost infinite pantheon with a deity for each spring and river, mountain and forest, but there is a higher court of more powerful gods ruled by Hephestia, goddess of fire and lightning.†   (source)
  • By choice Marko became individual in his thinking, and so unknowingly committed the gravest sin in the Communist pantheon.†   (source)
  • Bound by Islam's prohibition against false idols, Pakistanis don't embrace the endless pantheon of deities plastered across windshields in the Hindu country to the east.†   (source)
  • We went through the main hall, four-armed Amaat looming, the air still smelling of incense and the heap of flowers at the god's feet and knees, back to a tiny chapel tucked into a corner, dedicated to an old and now-obscure provincial god, one of those personifications of abstract concepts so many pantheons hold, in this case a deification of legitimate political authority.†   (source)
  • Hale's place in the pantheon of American heroes, as the martyr spy of the Revolution, was not to come until years later.†   (source)
  • It is the Monument to the People's Heroes, Mao first in the pantheon.†   (source)
  • Eva was mad for the flute, and after four months or so Zaorski had begun to dote on the little girl, amazed at her natural gift, fussed over her as if she were a prodigy (which she might have been), another Landowska, another Paderewski, another Polish offering to music's pantheon—and finally even refused the trifling amount that Sophie was able to pay.†   (source)
  • A pantheon has room for many, Sam.†   (source)
  • Believe it or not, Raphael's buried in the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • As they rounded the corner into Piazza della Rotunda, the Pantheon rose before them.†   (source)
  • There were over a dozen different gods in the Rotunda—more than the original Pantheon in Rome.†   (source)
  • I stall and take the long way to the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • The air inside the Pantheon was cool and damp, heavy with history.†   (source)
  • It looked like someone had built a pyramid on top of Rome's Pantheon.†   (source)
  • They're hanging out on the steps of the Pantheon, and he says I should join them.†   (source)
  • But do you really think the first cardinal could be killed at the Pantheon?†   (source)
  • "A pantheon means it's a place for tombs— of famous people, people important to the nation."†   (source)
  • He had seen a pair of doves earlier today at the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • St. Clair's eyes glint as he sketches the man falling down the Pantheon's spiral staircase.†   (source)
  • Langdon was still in shock over his mistake at the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • I'm the one who screwed up at the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • The Vatican had all the statues in the Pantheon removed and destroyed in the late 1800s.†   (source)
  • Back then, the Pantheon had nothing at all to do with Raphael!†   (source)
  • If the Pantheon is the right spot, we can follow the pathway to the other markers.†   (source)
  • Langdon felt guilt-ridden over the blunder that had cost everyone their chance at the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • But how does this guy expect to kill someone at the Pantheon and get away unnoticed?†   (source)
  • Raphael's body was relocated to the Pantheon in 1758.†   (source)
  • Langdon found himself scanning the Pantheon for reporters.†   (source)
  • Actually, there's probably no more earthly place in Rome than the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • Can you give me one plausible scenario of how someone could kill a cardinal inside the Pantheon?†   (source)
  • Killing a cardinal at the Pantheon would certainly open some eyes.†   (source)
  • The famous circular opening in the Pantheon's roof.†   (source)
  • And you're certain Raphael is buried inside the Pantheon?†   (source)
  • Behind her, Langdon emerged from the Pantheon, dazed.†   (source)
  • The Pantheon is your one chance to catch this guy.†   (source)
  • "Hope these guys are good," Vittoria said, eyeing the scattered tourists entering the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • Hi, honey, I'm standing in the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • How does one even get a hostage past the guards into the Pantheon in the first place?†   (source)
  • The gods and the goddesses in my book are not those of the Greek or any other Pantheon.†   (source)
  • The American tourists were still milling around the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • The room reminded her of the Pantheon in Rome, except this place had been decorated in Hades Modern.†   (source)
  • The metal was consecrated in ancient times, at the Pantheon in Rome.†   (source)
  • His talents would make him a worthy addition to the pantheon.†   (source)
  • Langdon gazed left, across the Tidal Basin, toward the gracefully rounded silhouette of the Jefferson Memorial—America's Pantheon, as many called it.†   (source)
  • It would keep swinging, she understood, after she and her father left the Pantheon, after she had fallen asleep that night.†   (source)
  • "Shut up and follow me," said Mike and, like a lesser member of the pantheon following an older and wiser deity, I had shut up and followed.†   (source)
  • Once, when she was eight or nine, her father took her to the Pantheon in Paris to describe Foucault's pendulum.†   (source)
  • The gently sloping cupola, Langdon knew, was modeled after the Pantheon, the original home to the great Roman gods of mythology.†   (source)
  • As the lights dimmed, Langdon took a seat against the back wall, beneath a pantheon of headmaster portraits.†   (source)
  • He sat in the same exact pose as Zeus in the Pantheon, bare chest exposed, left hand holding a sword, right hand raised with thumb and finger extended.†   (source)
  • I reply to Bridge, telling her about my new sort-of-friends, the crazy cafeteria with restaurant-quality food, and the giant Pantheon down the road.†   (source)
  • And then I'm heading down the steps of the Pantheon, cool and white and glittering, in the most beautiful city in the world.†   (source)
  • Of course, the Roman Pantheon had been converted to Christianity in 609 …. but this pantheon was never converted; vestiges of its true history still remained in plain view.†   (source)
  • Currently, it made its home at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, where those who saw it had no reason to suspect that it was one of the last vestigial links to a time when the father of the country had watched over the U.S. Capitol as a god …. like Zeus watching over the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • The overcast sky and the stone buildings emit the same cold elegance, but ahead of me, the Pantheon shimmers.†   (source)
  • They had named her river the Tiber and erected a classical capital of pantheons and temples, all adorned with images of history's great gods and goddesses—Apollo, Minerva, Venus, Helios, Vulcan, Jupiter.†   (source)
  • "The Pantheon?" he asks warily.†   (source)
  • "It's a pantheon."†   (source)
  • A pantheon.†   (source)
  • The Pantheon is huge.†   (source)
  • And the Pantheon!†   (source)
  • I like the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • Only hours ago Langdon had been standing in the Pantheon convinced the Path of Illumination had been broken and he would never get this far.†   (source)
  • Even in the 1600s, the Pantheon, with its tremendous, holed dome, was one of the best known sites in Rome.†   (source)
  • "Or the killer drugs the cardinal," Vittoria said, "brings him to the Pantheon in a wheelchair like some old tourist.†   (source)
  • He had been here many times beneath the Pantheon's oculus and stood before the grave of the great Raphael.†   (source)
  • All I know is that the information we found refers to Raphael's tomb, and Raphael's tomb is inside the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • Outside the entrance to the Pantheon, four armed Roman policemen stood at attention just as Olivetti had predicted.†   (source)
  • To my knowledge the Pantheon is unique.†   (source)
  • Langdon's realization that the Pantheon was the first altar of science had been a bittersweet moment.†   (source)
  • It dawned on him now how perfectly Illuminati the chapel was, far more subtle and selective than the world famous Pantheon.†   (source)
  • And a fifth-century theologian once called the Pantheon the House of the Devil, warning that the hole in the roof was an entrance for demons!†   (source)
  • Langdon had to admit, the Pantheon was not what he had expected for the placement of the first marker.†   (source)
  • Vittoria removed her phone and hit the auto dial number she and Olivetti had programmed at the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • It takes you directly to the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • Two blocks from the Pantheon, Langdon and Vittoria approached on foot past a line of taxis, their drivers sleeping in the front seats.†   (source)
  • The Venerable Bede had once written that the hole in the Pantheon's roof had been bored by demons trying to escape the building when it was consecrated by Boniface IV.†   (source)
  • Sadly, Langdon knew they once contained statues of the Olympian gods, but the pagan sculptures had been destroyed when the Vatican converted the Pantheon to a Christian church.†   (source)
  • Is the Pantheon even a church?†   (source)
  • As a student of architecture, Langdon had been amazed to learn that the dimensions of the Pantheon's main chamber were a tribute to Gaea-the goddess of the Earth.†   (source)
  • Langdon's progress around his side of the Pantheon was being hampered somewhat by the guide on his heels, now continuing his tireless narration as Langdon prepared to check the final alcove.†   (source)
  • And I have done this to stake out the Pantheon based on the testimony of some American I have never met who has just interpreted a fourhundredyear-old poem.†   (source)
  • The Pantheon is a single room.†   (source)
  • He had never heard the term "demon's hole," but he did recall a famous sixth-century critique of the Pantheon whose words seemed oddly appropriate now.†   (source)
  • Mr. Langdon, when you told me you would explain the situation en route, I assumed I would be approaching the Pantheon with a clear idea of why my men are here.†   (source)
  • Langdon felt himself sweating now in his Harris tweed in the backseat of the Alpha Romeo, which was idling in Piazza de la Concorde, three blocks from the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • Have you been to the Pantheon, Ms.†   (source)
  • "The Pantheon," the man declared, launching into his memorized spiel, "was built by Marcus Agrippa in 27 B.C." "Yes," Langdon interjected, "and rebuilt by Hadrian in 119 A.D." It was the world's largest free-standing dome until 1960 when it was eclipsed by the Superdome in New Orleans!†   (source)
  • The Raphael at the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • He was back in the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • Recently the New York Times had reported the eerie Masonic ties of countless famous men-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Duke of Kent, Peter Sellers, Irving Berlin, Prince Philip, Louis Armstrong, as well as a pantheon of well-known modern-day industrialists and banking magnates.†   (source)
  • Not like the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • The Pantheon.†   (source)
  • Not the Pantheon!†   (source)
  • The Pantheon?†   (source)
  • The Pantheon.†   (source)
  • Inside the Pantheon!†   (source)
  • Is the Pantheon far?†   (source)
  • They fed off human memory and belief—dozens of musty pantheons still muscling up against one another like they did in the old days.†   (source)
  • As in the Pantheon, the domed roof was a waffle pattern of recessed square panels, but here each panel was a stela—a grave marker with Ancient Greek inscriptions.†   (source)
  • Leo listened to the Spanish tour guide for a few seconds, and then he reported to his friends, "This is the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • At the apex of the ceiling, where the Pantheon's skylight would've been, a circle of pure black stone gleamed, as if to reinforce the sense that there was no way out of this place—no sky above, only darkness.†   (source)
  • Five nights a week the working people of the Pantheon quarter danced there.†   (source)
  • Mahayana Buddhism has developed a pantheon of many Bodhisatrvas and many past and future Buddhas.†   (source)
  • And the whole Greek pantheon, with the sole exception of Zeus, was swallowed by its father, Kronos.†   (source)
  • With the latest news of the casting of I'll Take a Sailor and the shooting of Wives for Sale, came stories about the Parthenon and the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dream.†   (source)
  • All that ancient culture and those beautiful works of art right out in public, by Michelangelo and Christopher Wren, and those ceremonies, like trooping the color at the Horse Guards' parade or burying a great man in the Pantheon over in Paris.†   (source)
  • There rose before his eyes, unsummoned, vistas of old stones and riverbanks, the pigeons of the Palais-Royal, the Gare du Nord, quiet old streets round the Pantheon, and many another scene of the city he'd never known he loved so much, and these mental pictures killed all desire for any form of action.†   (source)
  • "Oh, yes" "No taxis" "We could walk up to the Pantheon and get one" "Come on and we'll get a drink in the pub next door and send for one" "You wouldn't walk across the street" "Not if I could help it."†   (source)
  • At the time of the composition of our document (third millennium B.c.) Enlil was the chief divinity of the Sumerian pantheon.†   (source)
  • A Hindu myth displays him in yogic meditation, with the forms of his inner vision breaking forth from him (to his own astonishment) and standing then around him as a pantheon of brilliant gods.†   (source)
  • Othin (Wotan), the chief of the gods, has asked to know what will be the doom of himself and his pantheon, and the "Wise Woman," a personification of the World Mother herself, Destiny articulate, lets him hear: Brothers shall fight and fell each other, And sisters' sons shall kinship stain; Hard is it on earth, with mighty whoredom; Ax-time, sword-time, shields are sundered, Wind-time, wolf-time, ere the world falls; Nor ever shall men each other spare.†   (source)
  • "13 Amaterasu, ancestress of the Royal House, is the chief divinity of the numerous folk pantheon, yet herself only the highest manifestation of the unseen, transcendent yet immanent, Universal God: "The Eight Hundred Myriads of Gods are but differing manifestations of one unique Deity, Kunitokotachi-no-Kami, The Eternally Standing Divine Being of the Earth, The Great Unity of All Things in the Universe, 1 he Primordial Being of Heaven and Earth, eternally existing from the beginning…†   (source)
  • And over everything there is always Zwingli—I am continually confronted with a pantheon of heroes.†   (source)
  • That Titan of art piled the Pantheon on the Parthenon, and made Saint-Peter's at Rome.†   (source)
  • Two prodigious shouts went up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!†   (source)
  • It is still the Pantheon on the Parthenon: Saint-Peter's of Rome.†   (source)
  • The white-skinned, fair-haired savages who created that terrible pantheon were of the same fibre as he.†   (source)
  • How will the demi-gods in your Pantheon—I mean those legendary persons you call saints—intercede for you after this?†   (source)
  • But his true fighting weight, his antecedents, his amours with other members of the commercial Pantheon—all these were as uncertain to ordinary mortals as were the escapades of Zeus.†   (source)
  • "When I dismantled my old Pantheon and cast out Napoleon and Caesar and their fellows, I straightway erected a new Pantheon," she answered gravely, "and the first I installed as Dr. Jordan."†   (source)
  • The culminating point of this sweep of walls was the Papal gate, that is to say, near the present site of the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • Such an enterprise would seem almost as hopeful as for Lavater to have scrutinized the wrinkles on the Rock of Gibraltar, or for Gall to have mounted a ladder and manipulated the Dome of the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole.†   (source)
  • And she added, in a softer key, that it must be delightful to think of those who love us among the ruins of the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • "I should enjoy seeing the works of Raphael and the ruins—the ruins of the Pantheon," she said to Mrs. Almond; "but, on the other hand, I shall not be sorry to be alone and at peace for the next few months in Washington Square.†   (source)
  • "If Lavinia had not been so foolish, she might visit the ruins of the Pantheon," she said to herself; and she continued to regret her sister's folly, even though the latter assured her that she had often heard the relics in question most satisfactorily described by Mr. Penniman.†   (source)
  • That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Pantheon! by my life! urchins who were with their nurses but yesterday!†   (source)
  • , in the Pantheon: Saint Peter of Rome, badly copied (the edifice is awkwardly heaped together, which has not amended its lines);—the Paris of the Republic, in the School of Medicine: a poor Greek and Roman taste, which resembles the Coliseum or the Parthenon as the constitution of the year III.†   (source)
  • He thought of Marius, who was a student, and who would probably go with the rest, to "deliberate, at midday, on the Place du Pantheon."†   (source)
  • There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars.†   (source)
  • A Marquise had slept in it; Marat had rotted in it; it had traversed the Pantheon to end with the rats of the sewer.†   (source)
  • Fantine had long evaded Tholomyes in the mazes of the hill of the Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in such a way as constantly to encounter him again.†   (source)
  • Paris has a capital, the Town-Hall, a Parthenon, Notre-Dame, a Mount Aventine, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; and it replaces the Gemoniae by ridicule.†   (source)
  • Now, at the Pantheon, at the Val-de-Grace, and at the Barriere de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarre, Glorieux, an ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was directed by this incident.†   (source)
  • The "sheet" which he held, although Royalist, of course, announced for the following day, without any softening phrases, one of these little events which were of daily occurrence at that date in Paris: "That the students of the schools of law and medicine were to assemble on the Place du Pantheon, at midday,—to deliberate."†   (source)
  • , with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Pantheon, the pole of the Deaf-Mutes, the Val-de-Grace, black, squat, fantastic, amusing, magnificent, and in the background, the severe square crests of the towers of Notre Dame.†   (source)
  • They assembled in Paris in two localities, near the fish-market, in a wine-shop called Corinthe, of which more will be heard later on, and near the Pantheon in a little cafe in the Rue Saint-Michel called the Cafe Musain, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was close to the workingman, the second to the students.†   (source)
  • Inquiries were instituted, and on consulting the tariff of commissions posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could be analyzed as follows: three commissions; one to the Pantheon, ten sous; one to Val-de-Grace, fifteen sous; and one to the Barriere de Grenelle, twenty-five sous.†   (source)
  • Her consenting to this union thus saved the king of the gods from being dethroned (always a possibility in the Greek pantheon, where Zeus had overthrown his own father, who had overthrown his father as well).†   (source)
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