eidolon

Example Sentences

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A dark wisp of smoke—Percy guessed it must be an eidolon—seeped into a Cyclops, made the monster hit himself in the face, then drifted off to possess another victim.

From Literature

This eidolon in the wolf helmet had shamed him, controlled him, and made him attack New Rome.

From Literature

Helen doesn’t ask anyone at Prime Space to explain her mission’s name, Eidolon, but if she’d checked Wikipedia, she would have learned that an eidolon is a phantom in human form.

From Washington Times

He scanned the crowds of tourists, wondering if they were regular mortals or monsters in disguise, like those eidolons who’d chased them in Rome.

From Literature

If only one man of the number drinks it, what is that eidolon which delights the other nine?

From Project Gutenberg