"Plutonian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore,— Tell, me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" ...
— The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics • Various
... travel in such weather. Our breath was frozen to our hoods of fur and our cheeks and noses frozen. Spreading our furs upon the snow, we dropped down and endeavored to sleep, but sound sleep was impossible. It was a night of Plutonian Purgatory. All through the night I would wake from the cold and beat my arms or feet to keep the circulation going, and I would hear one or both of my boys doing the same. I did not make any entries in the diary that day, and there was many ...
— A Negro Explorer at the North Pole • Matthew A. Henson
... Aidenn, Beyond the Night's Plutonian shore? And clasp again a sainted maiden Whom the ...
— The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems • George W. Doneghy
... fighting together in the wilds of the outer worlds. A thought struck him, even as he ran. "What in th' name o' Jupiter's nine moons stopped th' leak?" He glanced up, halted, his mouth open in amazement. "Well, I'm a four-tailed, horn-headed Plutonian if there ain't ...
— The Great Dome on Mercury • Arthur Leo Zagat
... successful it has been. There was an account in one of the fugitive reviews of a lady falling into hysterics on the perusal of it, although that was nothing to the gush of tears of which there is a tradition, down the Plutonian cheeks of a lawyer unknown, over 'Bertha in the Lane.' But these things should not make anybody vain. It is the story that has power with people, just what you do not ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon
... appeared in the very place where these islets have recently been formed. Then they sank under the waves, to rise again in the year 69, when they again subsided. Since that time to our days the Plutonian work has been suspended. But on the 3rd of February, 1866, a new island, which they named George Island, emerged from the midst of the sulphurous vapour near Nea Kamenni, and settled again the 6th of ...
— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne
... many factories at work in and around Anzin, but there is nothing Plutonian in the aspect of the place or of the neighbourhood, and the grimy side of coal-mining nowhere obtrudes itself. On the contrary the green fields, under a very high cultivation, everywhere encroach agreeably ...
— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert
... very hour Death shall overcome thee, and the fabled Manes, and the shadowy Plutonian ...
— The Disowned, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
