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Labyrinth   /lˈæbərˌɪnθ/   Listen
Labyrinth

noun
1.
Complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost.  Synonym: maze.
2.
A complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium.  Synonyms: inner ear, internal ear.



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"Labyrinth" Quotes from Famous Books



... passed down to the gulch, which formed the easiest route to their refuge, saying very little, and that in lowered tones. The confirmation so recently won served to stir their hearts deeply, and neither boy could as yet see a way out of the labyrinth that discovery most assuredly opened ...
— The Lost City • Joseph E. Badger, Jr.

... his heart. Here, by his side, wistfully sympathetic and friendly in manner, sat the "one woman in the world," yet he felt awkward and constrained, and took refuge in a vague expression of anxiety on behalf of Handyside, a man who at least might be trusted to extricate himself safely from the labyrinth of Eastbourne! ...
— Number Seventeen • Louis Tracy

... tam-o'-shanter over the curls that, even in the city slums, were full of sunshine. With her hands thrust staunchly into her pockets, she went out; out into the jungle of streets that met, as in the center of a labyrinth, in front of ...
— The Island of Faith • Margaret E. Sangster

... can rival the sublime and beautiful images that crowd the creased and folded labyrinth of the human brain; as far beyond the ken and analysis of the biologist's microscope, as some remote nebulae shining in blue gulfs of interstellar space, that no telescopic Jense can ever discover, even as a faint blur of silvery mist upon the ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

... thankful for what we have, and take the beginnings of history in the mixed form of truth and fiction, following the lead of learned historians who are and long have been trying to trace the true clue of fact in the labyrinth of poetic story with which it ...
— The Story of Rome From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic • Arthur Gilman


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