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Vulcan
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  • Vulcan.†   (source)
  • Volcanoes were named for the Roman god Vulcan.†   (source)
  • 9 United States Standard Oil Company Microsoft, Vulcan Inc. Metropolitan Broadcasting Company General Electric, US Steel Standard Oil Company Seibu Corporation 40.†   (source)
  • Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her.†   (source)
  • And I'm not a Vulcan!†   (source)
  • Did he mean the Vulcan dude from Star Trek?†   (source)
  • And over there is Vulcan helping us build a steam engine.†   (source)
  • A Vulcan guarding the flames, he gives us instructions about which doors to keep closed or opened for proper distribution of heat, lays kindling by, discusses qualities of coal, and teaches us how to rake, feed, and bank the fire.†   (source)
  • I think I'll take a nap and trust in my brilliant Vulcan companion to let me know if any extremely dangerous feral hogs walk by ."†   (source)
  • None of your creepy Vulcan mind-meld tricks.†   (source)
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  • Suddenly, she goes all Vulcan.†   (source)
  • Chapter 20 — Under Vulcan's hammer.†   (source)
  • I felt like a Vulcan, studying these odd, quaint humans.†   (source)
  • —That big statue of Vulcan, right?†   (source)
  • She had a vision of the name working like the ugly sweating Vulcan who stayed in the furnace and to whom, presumably, the goddess had to come when called.†   (source)
  • I have resolved to be a trustworthy son to all women until Vulcan assumes its rightful place is the Community of Planets.†   (source)
  • "Vulcan is the Roman name for Hephaestus," Annabeth said, "the god of blacksmiths and fire."†   (source)
  • We compared him to our Roman god Vulcan.†   (source)
  • In the old days, the children of Vulcan would come here in secret to consecrate demigod weapons.†   (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)
  • Langdon knew the forefathers' "new Rome" had been renamed Washington early in her history, and yet vestiges of their original dream remained: the Tiber's waters still flowed into the Potomac; senators still convened beneath a replica of St. Peter's dome; and Vulcan and Minerva still watched over the Rotunda's long-extinguished flame.†   (source)
  • That's the symbol of Vulcan, isn't it?†   (source)
  • Vulcan?†   (source)
  • Vulcan?†   (source)
  • Vulcan, it is true, had nothing on under his apron, which was all that prevented him from scandalizing the downtown as well.†   (source)
  • Vulcan was a massive cast-iron statue atop Red Mountain, the god of the forge, a relic from the days when the blast furnaces still smoked.†   (source)
  • I rented an apartment on the fashionable Southside—in Birmingham, you could be pretty fashionable for $245 a month—with a view of Vulcan from the bedroom window.†   (source)
  • I never thought of it, before; but you certainly are rather like Vulcan, sir.†   (source)
  • One may be immortal and yet limp: witness Vulcan.†   (source)
  • I sacrificed it to Vulcan, for it was past serving the god Terminus.†   (source)
  • Gringoire, who liked noble and classical comparisons, compared him in thought to the living tripod of Vulcan.†   (source)
  • Your eyes dwell on a Vulcan, — a real blacksmith, brown, broad-shouldered: and blind and lame into the bargain.†   (source)
  • Less than a thousand ships will end this war, Nor Vulcan needs his fated arms prepare.†   (source)
  • "Behold," she said, "perform'd in ev'ry part, My promise made, and Vulcan's labor'd art.†   (source)
  • Vulcan this plague begot; and, like his sire, Black clouds he belch'd, and flakes of livid fire.†   (source)
  • "My sons," said Vulcan, "set your tasks aside; Your strength and master-skill must now be tried.†   (source)
  • With Vulcan's rage the rising winds conspire, And near our palace roll the flood of fire.†   (source)
  • That face of his I do remember well: Yet when I saw it last it was besmeared As black as Vulcan in the smoke of war: A bawbling vessel was he captain of, For shallow draught and bulk unprizable; With which such scathful grapple did he make With the most noble bottom of our fleet That very envy and the tongue of los Cried fame and honour on him.†   (source)
  • But speak you this with a sad brow, or do you play the flouting Jack, to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder, and Vulcan a rare carpenter?†   (source)
  • Though Jove weary his smith, from whom in wrath he took the sharp thunderbolt wherewith on my last day I was smitten, or though he weary the others, turn by turn, in Mongibello at the black forge, crying, 'Good Vulcan, help, help!' even as he did at the fight of Phlegra, and should hurl on me with all his might, thereby he should not have glad vengeance."†   (source)
  • These figures, on the shield divinely wrought, By Vulcan labor'd, and by Venus brought, With joy and wonder fill the hero's thought.†   (source)
  • Thou, when the rosy morn restores the light, First arm thy soldiers for th' ensuing fight: Thyself the fated sword of Vulcan wield, And bear aloft th' impenetrable shield.†   (source)
  • The flame, unstopp'd at first, more fury gains, And Vulcan rides at large with loosen'd reins: Triumphant to the painted sterns he soars, And seizes, in this way, the banks and crackling oars.†   (source)
  • Sacred to Vulcan's name, an isle there lay, Betwixt Sicilia's coasts and Lipare, Rais'd high on smoking rocks; and, deep below, In hollow caves the fires of Aetna glow.†   (source)
  • …welcome winds arise, The watchful shepherd to the forest flies, And fires the midmost plants; contagion spreads, And catching flames infect the neighb'ring heads; Around the forest flies the furious blast, And all the leafy nation sinks at last, And Vulcan rides in triumph o'er the waste; The pastor, pleas'd with his dire victory, Beholds the satiate flames in sheets ascend the sky: So Pallas' troops their scatter'd strength unite, And, pouring on their foes, their prince delight.†   (source)
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