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elysian
1. But the difference between a temple courtesan and a tavern whore was like the sparkling Elysian Fields compared to the
2. They were stacked up in huge frozen waves to either side of the ship, forming a frozen wake either side of its landing path, and that was going to make it extremely difficult when they set off to go in any direction other than follow the trench left by the Elysian
3. “I’m not going to estimate how long it will take to travel those one hundred kilometres, I doubt any of us really want to know, but what I do know is that we’ve got to survive several nights outside, without the shelter of the Elysian
4. His surroundings morphed to the deserted bridge of the Elysian
5. In the shadow of the ship there was only really heavy gravel as anything larger had been either mercilessly crushed or shoved out of the way as the Elysian came down
6. Chris sat for a couple of minutes, chewing on a piece of painfully artificial-tasting meat substitute, thinking about what might have happened back at the command section of the Elysian since they left
7. He suddenly remembered something that he had not thought about since they had set off from the Elysian
8. “But there’s nothing we can do until we at least reach the other sections of the Elysian
9. Once they had made camp in the evening, they would have completed four days away from the command section of the Elysian
10. I thought it was a rock at first but the more I look at it the more I think it must be the rest of the Elysian
11. The odd lump was indeed the other sections of the Elysian
12. The Elysian had shuttle bays, if they could be called that, on both sides
13. Didn’t you say that the Elysian got hit by a comet that our sensors have failed to pick up?”
14. “What happened to the beacon on the Elysian?” he asked
15. Instead they would have to spend another night in the Elysian and then set off to rescue those waiting in the command section the following morning
16. There in the sky, about a hundred metres behind the Elysian was a small shuttle craft, its four thruster pods allowing it to hover in a common-sense defying way
17. When it finally arrived at Proxima 3, the Hesperian was expertly put down within three hundred metres of the mid-section of the Elysian
18. The newly elected colony commander decided to have a brig constructed within the wreck of the Elysian, to hold the saboteur until a longer term solution could be decided
19. A mere three years after the Elysian crashed on the surface of Proxima 3, the first child born outside of the solar system arrived
20. Hell, he had not even been born when Chris first arrived on this planet as captain of the ill-fated Elysian
21. It was a carbon copy of his own bridge on the Elysian, very basic, minimal instrumentation and no decoration whatsoever
22. However as the Elysian, Hesperian and Olympian were the only three vessels to ever land on Melius, they had found themselves struggling
23. He remembered all the young characters that so magnificently played out their roles, as if performing in some epic, Elysian opus
24. with Hades, and the river Styx, and the Elysian
25. Cats and dogs and other pets sometimes came with their humans when they died together, and the animals were allowed to go with their humans to the Elysian Fields; but never had Than seen a plant-like soul, and so he stood a moment, transfixed
26. Vicki’s mom would go down to Erebus and forget everything and spend the rest of eternity in the Elysian Fields living whatever delusions of grandeur her soul desired
27. Whosoever could consider their lot execrable after being graced by such an august vision? Rather, Antarloka rejoiced as one and Lila tossed elysian flowers about gaily while the confluence exulted:
28. “You’re in the Elysian Fields Holly
29. At this Don Quixote heaved a deep sigh and said, "I cannot say positively whether my sweet enemy is pleased or not that the world should know I serve her; I can only say in answer to what has been so courteously asked of me, that her name is Dulcinea, her country El Toboso, a village of La Mancha, her rank must be at least that of a princess, since she is my queen and lady, and her beauty superhuman, since all the impossible and fanciful attributes of beauty which the poets apply to their ladies are verified in her; for her hairs are gold, her forehead Elysian fields, her eyebrows rainbows, her eyes suns, her cheeks roses, her lips coral, her teeth pearls, her neck alabaster, her bosom marble, her hands ivory, her fairness snow, and what modesty conceals from sight such, I think and imagine, as rational reflection can only extol, not compare
30. In this other squadron there come those that drink of the crystal streams of the olive-bearing Betis, those that make smooth their countenances with the water of the ever rich and golden Tagus, those that rejoice in the fertilising flow of the divine Genil, those that roam the Tartesian plains abounding in pasture, those that take their pleasure in the Elysian meadows of Jerez, the rich Manchegans crowned with ruddy ears of corn, the wearers of iron, old relics of the Gothic race, those that bathe in the Pisuerga renowned for its gentle current, those that feed their herds along the spreading pastures of the winding Guadiana famed for its hidden course, those that tremble with the cold of the pineclad Pyrenees or the dazzling snows of the lofty Apennine; in a word, as many as all Europe includes and contains
31. For, come, tell me, can there be anything more delightful than to see, as it were, here now displayed before us a vast lake of bubbling pitch with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the middle of the lake there comes a plaintive voice saying: 'Knight, whosoever thou art who beholdest this dread lake, if thou wouldst win the prize that lies hidden beneath these dusky waves, prove the valour of thy stout heart and cast thyself into the midst of its dark burning waters, else thou shalt not be worthy to see the mighty wonders contained in the seven castles of the seven Fays that lie beneath this black expanse;' and then the knight, almost ere the awful voice has ceased, without stopping to consider, without pausing to reflect upon the danger to which he is exposing himself, without even relieving himself of the weight of his massive armour, commending himself to God and to his lady, plunges into the midst of the boiling lake, and when he little looks for it, or knows what his fate is to be, he finds himself among flowery meadows, with which the Elysian fields are not to be compared
32. "No, certainly not," said Merlin; "here, this minute, and on the spot, the matter must be settled; either Dulcinea will return to the cave of Montesinos and to her former condition of peasant wench, or else in her present form shall be carried to the Elysian fields, where she will remain waiting until the number of stripes is completed
33. "In such delicious fancies time quickly glides by, and the welcome hour arrives for her entrance into the Elysian world, of which she has had such bright dreams
34. Constance! And Constance walked her off to the Elysian Fields
35. I gazed upon a tapestry of beauty, a golden phalanx freshly out of the Elysian fields and hills
