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  • A diamond, the locksmith reminds himself, is only a piece of carbon compressed in the bowels of the earth for eons and driven to the surface in a volcanic pipe.†   (source)
  • The undercarriage of the rover is taller than any of the rocks around here, and the hills are gently sloping affairs, smoothed by eons of sandstorms.†   (source)
  • The world of the Glade seemed like eons ago.†   (source)
  • The eons have turned them to stone, yet still they burn bright with beauty.†   (source)
  • While lacing up her left boot, she remembered the tools she'd stashed in her leg before leaving the junkyard, what seemed like eons ago.†   (source)
  • 'Eons' sounds too geological.†   (source)
  • For me, it was eons ago.†   (source)
  • However, it was forgotten over time and went unspoken for eons in Alagaesia, until the elves brought it back over the sea.†   (source)
  • "God's word, brought to you by a crew of romantic idealists in a harsh desert culture eons ago, followed by a chain of translators two thousand years long.†   (source)
  • It is eons of time and information.†   (source)
  • "An eon," Rogerson repeated, lifting his head up and looking at me again.†   (source)
  • He realized with bleary, distant surprise that for the first time in untold eons he was sitting, too …. actually sitting up.†   (source)
  • Even though the rite of sacrifice had been abandoned eons ago, its power remained.†   (source)
  • She saw Valentine's eyes as the sword hurtled toward her; it seemed like eons, though it could only have been a split second.†   (source)
  • For eons, it seemed, I had accepted my plight as the hapless, put-upon victim of fate and the Furies, but this time I had to face the fact that I had brought my new catastrophe upon myself.†   (source)
  • In that time, eons ago, when they had been cufflinks, given him by Eric as a confession of his love, Rufus had hardly ever worn them.†   (source)
  • …We Landed High-rise casinos, each with a 'got rich' story or two and thousands of sad little secrets, gigantic glittering towers of glass and ungodly neon intruding upon the beauty of the July dusk, yet waving a welcome home, midst a bayou of cement, asphalt shingles, tinted panes, fake wood siding, and lingering in the distance, an ocean of sage-embroidered playa, vast as time itself, those very seconds, hours, eons locked within the fringe of great crustal blocks most call mountains.†   (source)
  • "Eon's actually been pretty generous."†   (source)
  • We'll have eons of time for that!"†   (source)
  • The dune fields, the alkali flats, the whiteness, the whole white sea-bottomed world, the lines of white haze in the distance, the six-thousand-year-old mummified baby found in a cave near White City, yes, and there were animals that bleached themselves white over the eons, a once-brown mouse that color-matched itself to the gypsum drifts to escape the gaze of predators.†   (source)
  • She led me by the hand to a room shut like a tomb, its windows covered with dark curtains, in which the light of day could not have entered in eons but which was nonetheless a palace compared to the sordid quarters of the Red Lantern.†   (source)
  • But how could he explain that part of his soul was breaking off, all because of eons of vampire tradition?†   (source)
  • None of us had eaten since our train ride to London, which seemed eons ago.†   (source)
  • There he was, a figure in black surrounded by eons of violence.†   (source)
  • He is thus equatingrather dramatically--the forces of dispersal, isolation, and local identity working on our language today with the same human forces and the same language needs acting eons ago, which produced many different languages, and later produced French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese out of Latin.†   (source)
  • The ice cream soda at Hanson's felt like eons ago.†   (source)
  • I've been making fortunes for eons, Max.†   (source)
  • At times they made a little too much of the family quirks—of both Amanda and Jeannie marrying men named Hugh, for instance, so that their husbands were referred to as "Amanda's Hugh" and "Jeannie's Hugh"; or their genetic predisposition for lying awake two hours in the middle of every night; or their uncanny ability to keep their dogs alive for eons.†   (source)
  • I could never, never, never forgive myself for that through the eons of eternities.†   (source)
  • For an instant he could see black castles in the air; he could create centuries of screaming, eons of torture.†   (source)
  • Now eon pump.†   (source)
  • Just as she reached the landing she heard Brahms' Alto Rhapsody on the phonograph, Marian Anderson's flowering dark exultancy, triumph wrested from eons of despair.†   (source)
  • Their gene patterns remain fixed for a relatively long time; they aren't adaptable — like being forced to play the same bridge hand over and over again, for eons, with no hope of getting a better one.†   (source)
  • Haven't seen you in eons… How's Dishonest Abe?†   (source)
  • I haven't seen her in eons.
  • The first time the gods defeated him, eons ago, he did not die quietly.†   (source)
  • The Fates ordained a prophecy eons ago, when this creature was born.†   (source)
  • "I have slept many eons," the god said forlornly.†   (source)
  • She said, "Yes, it will go like this: 'Frederic°, I have dreamed of you for eons.†   (source)
  • After eons, it finally breached the edge.†   (source)
  • The black grass had been trampled by eons of dead feet.†   (source)
  • I remembered Thoth saying Anubis was only in a good mood once an eon or so.†   (source)
  • Trisolaran civilization itself had thought so through many eons.†   (source)
  • Rogerson, I'd called out, to ask him what an eon was-a billion years.†   (source)
  • She has slumbered for eons, but she is slowly waking.†   (source)
  • Ma'at and Isfet, order and chaos, are about to collide more violently than they have in eons.†   (source)
  • From time to time, over the eons, Kronos has stirred.†   (source)
  • I pictured Bast with her knives, locked in combat with that monster for eons.†   (source)
  • The streets of Paris, the ordinary world, seemed eons away.†   (source)
  • It's been eons since I broke a demigod of your caliber.†   (source)
  • These were queries people had been circling for eons.†   (source)
  • Most likely by young Harlan, who arranged Lord Eon's death.†   (source)
  • Like all his brethren, he'd been imprisoned in Tartarus for eons.†   (source)
  • Eons ago, he'd chosen her to be his champion.†   (source)
  • That was part of the agreement that ended the gods' war eons ago.†   (source)
  • All these eons, the other gods have been slowly fading, losing power, because Ra is missing.†   (source)
  • We've been looting and pillaging ships on the Mare Nostrum for eons."†   (source)
  • She was brought here eons ago, when this was the site of my palace.†   (source)
  • He should be used to that, after so many eons married to me, but alas!†   (source)
  • Eons of pain and disappointment weigh on you.†   (source)
  • Who better to redesign Olympus and make it a monument that will last for another eon?†   (source)
  • The seal's crude star was worn and weathered, suggesting that it had been carved eons ago.†   (source)
  • When I first got the gift of prophecy, eons ago, it's true Jupiter cursed me.†   (source)
  • I've dwelt here for eons, bringing those who sought love into the presence of Cupid."†   (source)
  • She served her master for eons without reprieve.†   (source)
  • Yet the Greeks have been our enemies for eons.†   (source)
  • That was eons ago, but I understand Phineas has returned to the mortal world.†   (source)
  • For a time measured in eons he and the thing in the tree locked eyes.†   (source)
  • There is a great heap of it at the base of the falls, inside the cloud, washed down over eons.†   (source)
  • I mean, you'd think the titan lord would've learned his lesson eons ago when he was over-thrown by the gods.†   (source)
  • For eons, I fought this monster.†   (source)
  • My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.†   (source)
  • Eon Hunter was even older than Jon Arryn had been, half-crippled by gout, and cursed with three quarrelsome sons, each more grasping than the last.†   (source)
  • Incalculable eons tumble past.†   (source)
  • Eons seemed to come and go.†   (source)
  • How long's an eon?†   (source)
  • She explained that there was only one immortal winged horse named Pegasus, who still wandered free somewhere in the skies, but over the eons he'd sired a lot of children, none quite so fast or heroic, but all named after the first and greatest.†   (source)
  • After the destruction caused by a tri-solar day, an eon would pass before the reappearance of life and civilization.†   (source)
  • But Colchis is no more—lost eons ago.†   (source)
  • But then the plant died and fell, probably into water, and decayed into peat, and the peat was folded inside the earth for years upon years—eons in which something like a month or a decade or even your whole life was just a puff of air, a snap of two fingers.†   (source)
  • Then they hurled a mountain on top of me, crushed me into the ground, where I struggled for eons, half-conscious in pain.†   (source)
  • You discovered the gaseous outer layer of the suns, but you didn't know that this gaseous layer expands and contracts over cycles lasting eons, like breathing.†   (source)
  • Someone who harbors a grudge, who has been unhappy with his lot since the world was divided eons ago, whose kingdom would grow powerful with the deaths of millions.†   (source)
  • He knew as well that the several thousand listening posts spread across Trisolaris had also received this message, which Trisolaran civilization had awaited for eons.†   (source)
  • His hair was green as summer leaves, braided in long locks and decorated with weapons—daggers, axes, and full-size swords, some of them bent and bloody—maybe trophies taken from demigods eons before.†   (source)
  • For eons, Ra's glorious sun boat would travel this route each night, fighting off the forces of Apophis.†   (source)
  • The Serpent was already greatly weakened from eons of fighting with me, and when your mother used her own life force to close the abyss, well … she worked a powerful feat of magic.†   (source)
  • Eons?†   (source)
  • When I turned, he was standing there with a wow-how-about-this expression, as if we were long-lost friends who hadn't seen each other in eons.†   (source)
  • Hercules did that, eons ago.†   (source)
  • Otis and I have been imprisoned under Rome for eons, but we've kept busy building our very own hypogeum.†   (source)
  • Eons ago, all magic was thus.†   (source)
  • And still others say no, that once these were trees like any others, and a great catastrophe eons ago must have buried them in the ground, and that over time, wood became dirt, and dirt became stone.†   (source)
  • I remember eons.†   (source)
  • It had been a long day–the day had already been long even before Jared and the others had shown up, and that seemed like eons ago.†   (source)
  • He gave me away like a trophy to Briares, a Hundred-Handed One, as a reward for supporting the gods in the war with Kronos eons ago.†   (source)
  • The faces that the First Men and the children of the forest had carved into the weirwoods in eons past had stern or savage visages more oft than not, but the great oak looked especially angry, as if it were about to tear its roots from the earth and come roaring after them.†   (source)
  • The report suggested that bacteria could have left the surface of the earth eons ago, when life was just beginning to emerge from the oceans and the hot, baked continents.†   (source)
  • At that age and at that size, dragons spend most of their time in a sleeplike trance, dreaming of whatever happens to capture their fancy, be it the turning of the stars, or the rise and fall of the mountains over the eons, or even something as small as the motion of a butterfly's wings.†   (source)
  • I want my atoms to circle around through the eons as non-living things, no joys, no sorrows, no strains, no pain, no nothing, me nothing!†   (source)
  • You might be able to defeat Gaea in the way you describe, similar to the way Ouranos was defeated eons ago.†   (source)
  • What if we popped out on the other side of the River of Night and found that several eons had passed?†   (source)
  • The arena floor remained solid, but otherwise the stadium looked as if it hadn't hosted a good giant killing for eons.†   (source)
  • He was mottled green, with blisters the size of buildings, and blackened patches from eons of being stuck under a volcano.†   (source)
  • Annabeth gazed around the hut, trying to imagine how many eons Damasen had been exiled here—slaying the drakon, collecting its bones and hide and meat, knowing it would attack again the next day.†   (source)
  • She'd already suffered for eons.†   (source)
  • Oh, I know it won't destroy you completely, but with your secret name I can send you into the abyss for eons, and it will be very, very painful.†   (source)
  • The first section was lost eons ago.†   (source)
  • He'd been around for eons.†   (source)
  • They are Greek, Roman, American—a combination of all the cultures they've influenced over the eons.†   (source)
  • Hazel was trained to spot pits, snares, trip lines, and all sorts of other traps Roman legions had faced for eons in enemy territory, but she saw nothing—just the yawning icy gates and the frozen banners crackling in the wind.†   (source)
  • The tallest of those towers, a spiderlike gantry with cables flowing from its peak, was the parachute jump, and it was from the highest parapet of that dizzying contraption that I had heard Sophie's peals of laughter as she sank earthward with Nathan—falling in joy at the summer's beginning, which now seemed eons ago.†   (source)
  • Two days later they came to the first of a series of bluffs carved eons earlier into convolutions, pockets, blank dark eyes.†   (source)
  • Only from the shorter span of human existence does the round of a cosmogonic eon seem to endure.†   (source)
  • In a cavern chamber, deep within the womb of the mountain, King Muchukunda retired to sleep, and there slumbered through the revolving eons.†   (source)
  • The resultant cataclysm represented the typical crisis of the nadir, the termination of the old eon and initiation of the new.†   (source)
  • The moment of the renewal of the eon.†   (source)
  • The taste of the fruits of temporal knowledge draws the concentration of the spirit away from the center of the eon to the peripheral crisis of the moment.†   (source)
  • The text in which we learn of the Makroprosopos and the Milooprosopos, the Zohar (zdhar, "light, splendor"), is a collection of esoteric Hebrew writing given to the world about 13os by a learned Spanish Jew, Moses de I eon.†   (source)
  • According to an Aztec version, each of the four elements—water, earth, air, and fire—terminates a period of the world: the eon of the waters ended in deluge, that of the earth with an earthquake, that of air with a wind, and the present eon will be destroyed by flame.†   (source)
  • From the standpoint of the Olympians, eon after eon of earthly history rolls by, revealing ever the harmonious form of the total round, so that where men see only change and death, the blessed behold immutable form, world without end.†   (source)
  • Carries on about his fifteen months as if they were eons he had to kill.†   (source)
  • It was the heat wave presumably, operating upon a brain made sensitive by eons of evolution.†   (source)
  • Thither I shall go presently, because there I hope to escape at last from lies and from the tedious, vulgar pursuit of happiness, to spend my eons in contemplation— THE STATUE.†   (source)
  • How many millions upon millions of centuries would pass before that bird had carried away even a square foot of that mountain, how many eons upon eons of ages before it had carried away all?†   (source)
  • …sank as many times as there are stars in the sky, atoms in the air, drops of water in the sea, leaves on the trees, feathers upon birds, scales upon fish, hairs upon animals, at the end of all those innumerable risings and sinkings of that immeasurably vast mountain not one single instant of eternity could be said to have ended; even then, at the end of such a period, after that eon of time the mere thought of which makes our very brain reel dizzily, eternity would scarcely have begun.†   (source)
  • …Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the council of Reims in 1148, caused the condemnation of Gilbert de Porea, Bishop of Poitiers, caused the condemnation of Eon de l'Etoile, arranged the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope Eugene III.†   (source)
  • Streams of tendency and eons they worship.†   (source)
  • Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.†   (source)
  • Mummed in names: A. E., eon: Magee, John Eglinton.†   (source)
  • Whence, disappearing from the constellation of the Northern Crown he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination return an estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark crusader, a sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition) surpassing those of Rothschild or the silver king.†   (source)
  • …and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.†   (source)
  • Of the eons of geological periods recorded in the stratifications of the earth: of the myriad minute entomological organic existences concealed in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds, of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the incalculable trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules contained by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead: of the universe of human serum constellated with red and white bodies,…†   (source)
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