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Greek mythology: the god of the underworld (land of the dead); brother of Zeus and PoseidonHades was also the name of the Greek underworld (where the souls of the dead were thought to dwell). It is also used as a more polite way of saying hell.
- Hades is both the name of the underworld and the Greek god who ruled it.
Hades = Greek mythology: the god of the underworld; brother of Zeus and Poseidon
- Hades will have your soul!Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
- Hades himself rode a black-and-gold chariot pulled by nightmare horses, their eyes and manes smoldering with fire.Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian
- Why, that damn radiator is hot as—it's hot as—it's hotter 'n the hinges of Hades!Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- Unfortunately, they are still in Hades, I believe, according to your creed, and cannot help you much in your present trouble.Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- It was like the golden branch that gained Aeneas and the Sibyl admittance into Hades.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
- For any hades we want to raise in this state, we can raise ourselves, without assistance from strangers.Stephen Vincent Benét -- The Devil and Daniel Webster
- You, gunslinger, are the Hanged Man, plodding ever onward toward your goal over all the pits of Hades.Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
- I am sure now grief is a ghost-only a ghost in Hades, where ungrateful Odysseus is going-waiting on him.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- Many ladies wanted to do something militant and had formed a Home Defense Guard, "Ladies from Hades."Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Visions of the Hades of the ancients, believed to be in the centre of the earth, floated through my imagination.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- He had, as I hoped, relaxed the tiniest bit, evidently expecting that I would go on with mock play, tips of Hades alone, while I was reciting.Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
- The sound was a roar as big as the world; it was the sound of a waterfall as wide as an ocean, falling into an endless void as deep as Hades itself.James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
- No, "home" is the other direction, in a protected south valley, not here in a frigid north valley Hades hole.Ellen Hopkins -- Glass
- Constantine slept in an old-fashioned white nightgown up to her chin and down to her toes even though it'd be hot as Hades.Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
- Indeed it fell to me to abide forever in the grey sea water; Hades received the dark mist at the worlds-end, and Zeus the open heaven of air and cloud.Homer -- The Iliad
- In three steps he could them and send them both to Hades.Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
- That's none of your business, Mike," I warned, internally cursing Jessica straight to the fiery pits of Hades.Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
- It was pouring down like Niagara Falls, and the wind howled like a pack of dogs out of Hades.John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
- From: DeathWish To: Hades 1991 This town blows.Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
Hades = Greek mythology: the god of the underworld (the land of the dead)
Hades = Greek mythology: the god of the underworld (land of the dead)
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