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Minotaur
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    "Come to see the Minotaur?" one of them asked.†  (source)
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    On the island of Crete, Theseus had his Ariadne and her magical ball of thread to lead him safely from the lair of the Minotaur.†  (source)
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    Like Theseus in the Minotaur's labyrinth, Max would leave a trail so he could retrace his steps.†  (source)
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    She is the minotaur of this long journey back—all those preparations for travel, the journey through Africa, the recent 7-hour train ride from Colombo to Jaffna, the sentries, the high walls of stone, and now this lazy courtesy of meals, tea, her best brandy in the evenings for my bad stomach—the minotaur who inhabits the place one had been years ago, who surprises one with conversations about the original circle of love.†  (source)
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    Only the oldest of the old-timers had ever seen any of those fabulous broncs in action, but their names were as firmly embedded in the lore of the arena as are the centaurs and the Minotaur in Greek mythology.†  (source)
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    From the belly up they were described to me as much like the Minotaur; from there down they were splayfooted satyrs.†  (source)
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    For an instant Langdon recalled the ancient myth of Daedelus, how the boy kept one hand on the wall as he moved through the Minotaur's labyrinth, knowing he was guaranteed to find the end if he never broke contact with the wall.†  (source)
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    Theseus, the hero-slayer of the Minotaur, entered Crete from without, as the symbol and arm of the rising civilization of the Greeks.†  (source)
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    You know"—he pointed to the horn in the shoe box—"that you have killed the Minotaur.†  (source)
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    Most of them were text adventure games: Raaka-tu, Bedlam, Pyramid, and Madness and the Minotaur.†  (source)
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    Then the king put them into the labyrinth, and the minotaur ate them up.†  (source)
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    She is the minotaur of this long journey back—all those preparations for travel, the journey through Africa, the recent 7-hour train ride from Colombo to Jaffna, the sentries, the high walls of stone, and now this lazy courtesy of meals, tea, her best brandy in the evenings for my bad stomach—the minotaur who inhabits the place one had been years ago, who surprises one with conversations about the original circle of love.†  (source)
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    Therein the Minotaur was settled; and he was fed, thereafter, on groups of living youths and maidens, carried as tribute from the conquered nations within the Cretan domain.†  (source)
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