All 6 Uses
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Nine Princes in Amber
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- I recall the sweetness of thy airs, and the temples, palaces, and pleasances thou containest, contained, will always contain, Amber, immortal city from which every other city has taken its shape, I cannot forget thee, even now, nor forget that day on the Pattern of Rebma when I remembered thee within thy reflected walls, fresh from a meal after starvation and the loving of Moire, but nothing could compare with the pleasure and the love of remembering thee;†
Chpt 5
- You can't take Amber with fifty thousand men, even providing you can get them all to the foot of Kolvir intact-and you can't It's silly even to consider using these poor bastards against the immortal city, with their toy swords and all.†
Chpt 6
- It had once seemed to me that nothing could ever displace the immortal liege of Amber from his throne.†
Chpt 6
- If we made it, they would be feted forever in the halls of the immortals.†
Chpt 6 *immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
- I had set sail for a land near as sparkling as Amber itself, an almost immortal place, a place that did not really exist, not any longer.†
Chpt 10
- I didn't know how yet, but I promised myself that guns would blaze within the immortal city on the day of my return.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(immortal) living or existing forever
or:
someone famous throughout history
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someone who will never die -- such as a mythological god -
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, "The Immortals" denotes a military corps of the Persian Empire. The Immortals were so-named because each time a member of the 10,000 man corps was killed or seriously wounded, he was replaced by another man. They are best remembered in western culture for their role in defeating the badly out-numbered Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae.