omphalos
Example Sentences
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On the right, the god is seated on the omphalos, holding up his right hand.
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Yes; but if not of the earth, for earth's tenant Jerusalem was the omphalos of mortality.
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This last summer he made a tour through the centre of the island, and obtained boreal shells at Buchlyvie in Stirlingshire,—the omphalos of Scotland.
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Yes, but if not of the earth, for earth's tenant Jerusalem was the omphalos of mortality.
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This great northern water system is geographically the Mediterranean of the North American continent, and Minnesota, the actual centre, is its omphalos.
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