cimmerian

Example Sentences

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Schwarzenegger is almost as much of a self-made man as the great Cimmerian himself.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013

John Milius's 1982 fantasy epic Conan the Barbarian cast the former Mr Olympia as Robert E Howard's unstoppable Cimmerian warrior.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013

He is stoic about the deaths of friends and relatives and accepts as "part of the game" the high possibility that he may be crushed, burned, suffocated or drowned in his own Cimmerian tomb.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before he even had time to yell, he dropped like a rock into the Cimmerian bowels of the glacier.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Nor is this wonderful work enveloped in Cimmerian darkness; it is clearer than the sun, though preceding writers have sought to impose upon us with parables, hieroglyphs, fables, and enigmas.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)