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  • Daedalus might have carved a lovely statue of them: Humility.†   (source)
  • He'd already gotten the string from Daedalus.†   (source)
  • How he might fit himself to Penelope again, smooth as one of Daedalus' joints.†   (source)
  • The creature was mortal, but it could not die as an infant, by my hand or Daedalus'.†   (source)
  • A smile of relief spread across Daedalus's face.†   (source)
  • Thought you'd like to know, Daedalus got his punishment.†   (source)
  • Daedalus was watching me, his face shadowed.†   (source)
  • I researched everything I could find about Daedalus.†   (source)
  • I think Daedalus would have you in a minute.†   (source)
  • I know Daedalus's Labyrinth better than anybody.†   (source)
  • We passed the island where I had stopped with Daedalus on the way to Crete.†   (source)
  • I will lead the quest to find Daedalus's workshop.†   (source)
  • Daedalus' face had gone soft as ripe fruit, his eyes full and shining.†   (source)
  • "You know, my lord," Aelia said, "Daedalus thought you would come.†   (source)
  • I heard Daedalus' breaths behind me and Polydamas' in front.†   (source)
  • Daedalus and Polydamas hesitated, blinking.†   (source)
  • "Yes, my young architect," Daedalus agreed.†   (source)
  • Daedalus was a great inventor, a mortal after Hephaestus's heart.†   (source)
  • It made me think of Daedalus, that upright man with fire in his bones.†   (source)
  • Daedalus stepped in, carrying a traveler's bag.†   (source)
  • There was a kind of joy in drawing Prometheus for him, in making Ariadne and Daedalus live again.†   (source)
  • "Daedalus cares nothing for you, half-bloods," Minos warned.†   (source)
  • Anyway, it is fitting that Daedalus should do it, he knows why.†   (source)
  • One threw his sword in desperation, but Daedalus and Icarus were already out of reach.†   (source)
  • "Then perhaps," I said, "Odysseus told you also that Daedalus himself made it?†   (source)
  • He reminded me a little of Daedalus, his evenness and wit.†   (source)
  • "Small compensation for the way I have acted," Daedalus said.†   (source)
  • Daedalus set his sword on the workbench.†   (source)
  • And all the while, Daedalus was working.†   (source)
  • How Daedalus held that knife steady I do not know.†   (source)
  • I looked at the massive black hound, who whimpered pitifully, still licking Daedalus's hair.†   (source)
  • But beneath his ease I could feel a roil that Daedalus never had.†   (source)
  • "The wax compound should hold for several hours," Daedalus said nervously as his son worked.†   (source)
  • If Daedalus is alive, we convince him to help us, not Luke.†   (source)
  • Daedalus had said to me once: Even the best iron grows brittle with too much beating.†   (source)
  • I had not even considered that Daedalus' secret could be a child.†   (source)
  • Daedalus had a few scratches that were bleeding golden oil, but he looked better than most of us.†   (source)
  • A wonder of the mortal world, my brother had called Daedalus, but this was a wonder in any world.†   (source)
  • "Smarter than me," Daedalus mumbled, too soft for the boy to hear.†   (source)
  • "It is all right," I murmured, whether to myself or Daedalus or the creature, I could not say.†   (source)
  • But it would have the mark of Daedalus on it.†   (source)
  • Daedalus returned with a birdcage, the finches still fluttering inside.†   (source)
  • Daedalus will be building overpasses and exit ramps in Asphodel for all time.†   (source)
  • After, I sat on the bank beneath the silvered leaves and thought of Daedalus' question.†   (source)
  • We have to get to Daedalus's workshop first.†   (source)
  • "I found the Hundred-Handed One as I came through the maze," Daedalus explained.†   (source)
  • Odysseus would see his qualities clearly, just as he had picked out Daedalus' loom.†   (source)
  • In the evenings after dinner, I set myself before Daedalus' loom.†   (source)
  • I am not sure, but I fear they seek to make a deal with Daedalus.†   (source)
  • I saw dreams about … Daedalus killed his nephew.†   (source)
  • Daedalus had gone already; he liked to be home when Icarus woke.†   (source)
  • It was a navigation instrument of some kind, invented by Daedalus.†   (source)
  • Which means you are like Daedalus after all.†   (source)
  • Daedalus put his hand to his son's shoulder.†   (source)
  • Daedalus was the world's greatest inventor.†   (source)
  • Yet looking more closely, I saw Daedalus' stamp.†   (source)
  • "The maze is my property," the ghost said, "not Daedalus's!†   (source)
  • Cunningly recessed skylights let in light but no glimpse of sky; Daedalus' work, I supposed.†   (source)
  • Looking for Daedalus is a waste of time.†   (source)
  • Daedalus had barred them from the inside with a wooden brace, but still they shook on their hinges.†   (source)
  • Daedalus was waiting amid the chaos of the pier.†   (source)
  • What brings the famous Daedalus to my shores?†   (source)
  • We must be close to Daedalus's workshop," she said.†   (source)
  • Annabeth said hesitantly, "we're looking for Daedalus.†   (source)
  • I slept, and the next morning Daedalus came for me.†   (source)
  • Her belly had stopped rippling when Daedalus began to cut.†   (source)
  • If Daedalus died … he said his life force was tied to the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • You really are crazy if you think Daedalus will help you.†   (source)
  • I could not stop hearing Daedalus talking of his freedom.†   (source)
  • I thought of the white scars on Daedalus' hands.†   (source)
  • "A place I swore never to enter, again," Daedalus said.†   (source)
  • Daedalus picked up another one of the boy's metal bugs.†   (source)
  • I could hear the rasp of Daedalus' breath.†   (source)
  • The door swung open, revealing Daedalus, sooty and stained.†   (source)
  • I told Rachel about the Labyrinth, and how we needed to find Daedalus….†   (source)
  • In that eerie light, the bones of Penelope's face showed fine as one of Daedalus' statues.†   (source)
  • I reckon you'll be looking for Daedalus's workshop now?†   (source)
  • They didn't make any sense to me, but Daedalus nodded grudgingly.†   (source)
  • Daedalus gestured that I should go first.†   (source)
  • You helped the Athenian kill my Minotaur, Daedalus.†   (source)
  • "Daedalus," she said, "take up the knife."†   (source)
  • Daedalus had marked out a small space for me with a bedroll, but I left it.†   (source)
  • Daedalus and his son froze, their metal wings glimmering on their backs.†   (source)
  • "This was not part of our agreement," Daedalus said.†   (source)
  • But Daedalus gathered up the corners, and when he had them, I jerked my hands away.†   (source)
  • She licked my face once, then almost knocked Daedalus over with an . enthusiastic leap.†   (source)
  • At the edge of my vision I saw Daedalus push one to the side and take his place.†   (source)
  • That would be Daedalus' work, yet there might be a way for me to help him.†   (source)
  • Apparently Daedalus was not at home, but the workshop looked like it had been recently used.†   (source)
  • Daedalus's workshop would be in the oldest part.†   (source)
  • "Daedalus once visited this place," I told the man.†   (source)
  • Trading Daedalus's soul for your sister's.†   (source)
  • I closed my eyes, to find that impression I had made of Daedalus' face.†   (source)
  • Behind them, smoke billowed from the . windows of Daedalus's workshop.†   (source)
  • When I opened my eyes, Daedalus was staring.†   (source)
  • A winter is more than you had with Daedalus.†   (source)
  • When his left wing was sealed to the straps, Daedalus began working on the right.†   (source)
  • You will pay now and forever Suddenly Daedalus collapsed in agony.†   (source)
  • I heard Daedalus crying orders but could not see him.†   (source)
  • Each night Daedalus knocked secretly at my door.†   (source)
  • Daedalus has been kind to us, Your Majesty.†   (source)
  • We must have more time," Daedalus murmured.†   (source)
  • Daedalus draped it around me, fastening it by its golden octopus pin.†   (source)
  • Daedalus repaired the rail, then took his turn among them.†   (source)
  • The giants came right at Daedalus, but Mrs. O'Leary leaped to his defense.†   (source)
  • Do you really believe Daedalus will help you?†   (source)
  • Instead of getting mad, Daedalus hung his head.†   (source)
  • "The Labyrinth has been busy," Daedalus corrected.†   (source)
  • But you don't even look like Daedalus," I protested.†   (source)
  • Report back to me, and I will tell you what you need to know about Daedalus.†   (source)
  • Daedalus stretched the frame, and the wings expanded to twenty feet.†   (source)
  • "The mark of Daedalus," she said, as if that was supposed to make sense.†   (source)
  • A woman's stern voice spoke from above: You will pay the price for that, Daedalus.†   (source)
  • Daedalus turned toward Nico, who drew his sword.†   (source)
  • I'd just watched the guy we were looking for, Daedalus, murder his own nephew.†   (source)
  • And the child of Athena's final stand-that was Daedalus.†   (source)
  • She'd brought Daedalus's laptop with her, of course.†   (source)
  • She closed her laptop, which had been given to her as a gift from the inventor Daedalus last summer.†   (source)
  • Daedalus was nothing compared to me—the immortal sorceress, daughter of Helios, sister of Circe!†   (source)
  • She dug around in her backpack, brought out Daedalus's laptop, and typed in a few commands.†   (source)
  • Daedalus planted them here just in case he needed an army:' "To attack Olympus or defend it?†   (source)
  • She rummaged in her pack and pulled out Daedalus's laptop.†   (source)
  • Daedalus had created it to be a living, growing maze.†   (source)
  • "Guys, this is bigger than Daedalus's laptop.†   (source)
  • Command sequence: Daedalus Twenty-three.†   (source)
  • Later, the same empousa had attacked them in Daedalus's workshop.†   (source)
  • Her backpack was missing, along with Daedalus's laptop.†   (source)
  • Command sequence: Daedalus Twenty-three.†   (source)
  • When the tunnel network collapsed after Daedalus died, Percy had been relieved.†   (source)
  • She doubted the ghosts would wait while she whipped out Daedalus's laptop and did a search.†   (source)
  • She took out Daedalus's laptop and opened it.†   (source)
  • You credit Daedalus with all the maze's secrets?†   (source)
  • You have studied the techniques of Daedalus himself.†   (source)
  • Random thoughts glinted in her mind, like gold nuggets coming to the surface: Daedalus.†   (source)
  • She'd been studying the bronze map for days now, scouring Daedalus's laptop for information.†   (source)
  • Plus, Daedalus had some notes on flying machines.†   (source)
  • It was dangerous enough before, under Daedalus'; control, and he wasn't evil.†   (source)
  • Daedalus had so many ideas, I could spend fifty years just trying to figure them all out.†   (source)
  • Daedalus once told her that his maze had a life of its own.†   (source)
  • One of Daedalus's ideas," Annabeth said.†   (source)
  • Command sequence: Daedalus Twenty-three.†   (source)
  • I remembered Daedalus.†   (source)
  • Few stories from Greek mythology capture the imagination like that of Daedalus and Icarus: the ingenious father's attempt to save his son from a tyrant as well as from his own invention (the labyrinth) by coming up with an even more marvelous creation; the solemn parental warning ignored in a burst of youthful exuberance; the fall from a great height; a father's terrible grief and guilt.†   (source)
  • "I never liked Daedalus," I muttered.†   (source)
  • In the old days, you couldn't take a step inside Daedalus's Labyrinth without sensing its all-consuming desire: I will destroy your mind and your body.†   (source)
  • As in Daedalus's Labyrinth?"†   (source)
  • Since Daedalus died ….†   (source)
  • They only opened to voice her complaints: about the smell of the dyes bubbling on the stove, the lion hairs on the rugs, even Daedalus' loom.†   (source)
  • Daedalus made a noise in his throat.†   (source)
  • Daedalus did not long outlive his son.†   (source)
  • Daedalus' work, it could be no other.†   (source)
  • At least I had earned my exile, but Daedalus was innocent, kept only as a trophy for my sister and Minos' vanity.†   (source)
  • I tried to remember the feel of Daedalus' scars beneath my fingers, but the memories were built of air, and blew away.†   (source)
  • I could hear nothing beyond that heavy wood, but I became aware of Daedalus' ragged breath beside me.†   (source)
  • Daedalus had told me a story once about the lords of Crete who used to hire him to enlarge their houses.†   (source)
  • She escaped and Daedalus sewed up the wound, but it left a scar at the base of her neck, in the shape of a crown.†   (source)
  • Daedalus did not seem like a man newly heart-struck, nor an old lover, with a wife of many years molded to his side.†   (source)
  • Daedalus sat, drank a swallow of wine.†   (source)
  • Daedalus, pale and blood-spattered.†   (source)
  • I wanted to see Daedalus for myself.†   (source)
  • If you find Daedalus, don't trust him.†   (source)
  • I thought some scrambled thing: that Daedalus must have dropped the scalpel inside of her, that a bone had broken in her labor and stabbed me.†   (source)
  • "I will do it," Daedalus said to me.†   (source)
  • Eurytion studied the cattle guard, and I got the feeling the subject of Daedalus's workshop made him uncomfortable.†   (source)
  • "Well, Daedalus?" she said at last.†   (source)
  • Daedalus grabbed for his sword, but the second giant smashed the workbench with his fist, and the sword went flying.†   (source)
  • She would tend to Chiron until his leg was fully recovered, and keep studying Daedalus's laptop, which had engrossed her for the last two months.†   (source)
  • Daedalus' voice spoke again in my ears.†   (source)
  • He's searching for Daedalus's workshop?†   (source)
  • She had known how useful I would be, dutifully cleaning her messes, protecting Daedalus, seeing the monster safely contained.†   (source)
  • I mourned for that sweet boy's death, but I mourned more for Daedalus, winging doggedly onwards, dragging that desperate grief behind him.†   (source)
  • "A painless death," Daedalus mused.†   (source)
  • Daedalus was fighting his way out of the Labyrinth, slashing down enemies left and right as he made his way toward us.†   (source)
  • It was made by the craftsman Daedalus.†   (source)
  • Someone must enter the Labyrinth, find the workshop of Daedalus, and prevent Luke from using the maze to invade this camp.†   (source)
  • The hills and trees before me, the worms and lions, stones and tender buds, Daedalus' loom, all wavered as if they were a fraying dream.†   (source)
  • I had once told Daedalus that I would never marry, because my hands were dirty, and I liked my work too much.†   (source)
  • Daedalus died to destroy the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • "It is a new substance," Daedalus said.†   (source)
  • Mrs. O'Leary and Daedalus were still locked in combat with the giants, and I could hear shouting in the tunnel.†   (source)
  • The memory of Daedalus' white-scarred hands, and the pleasure I had taken in them, was like a hot wire pushed through my brain.†   (source)
  • If we don't get to Daedalus first-"†   (source)
  • Instead, he said, "When I was a boy and everyone played at wrestling monsters like Heracles, I dreamed of being Daedalus instead.†   (source)
  • "And you did," Annabeth marveled, "for two thousand years," She sounded kind of impressed, despite the horrible things Daedalus had done.†   (source)
  • Yeah, but the architecture to the right-those old stones-that's more likely to lead to an ancient part of the maze, toward Daedalus's workshop.†   (source)
  • After I left, Daedalus built his great maze indeed, the Labyrinth, whose walls confounded the Minotaur's rage.†   (source)
  • Not all men were as unshakable as Daedalus, and these sailors looked as though they had known shocks enough already.†   (source)
  • "You really are Daedalus," I decided.†   (source)
  • I seized a knife and dragged a great bronze mirror to face me, for there was no Daedalus now to help.†   (source)
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