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• (stygian)- dark or gloomy; infernal; hellish; And then there are stories that
we whisper into a stygian darkness. — Carmen Agra Deedy spins stories;
• (obsidian)- a volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, usually dark
but transparent in thin pieces, and having a good conchoidal fracture,
( ); It had a blade of obsidian, a darksome,
glasslike volcanic rock, and the edge rivaled a razor in cutting qualities. —
001 - The Man of Bronze;
• (centaur)- Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head,
trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse, (( )
, ); Because
Che was a centaur, albeit a young one, his advice was always excellent, and
the Chief always heeded it. — Roc and a Hard Place;
• (centurion)- (in the ancient Roman army) the commander of a century,
(( - ) ); But the centurion, as a
military officer, was superior to the captain of an Alexandrian corn-ship, and
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts;