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knowing that its ageless mass would always dwarf the short span of time allotted to any man.
Everything was burnished with sweat and grease so that all of the objects seemed to have been carved from the same material and to be ageless.
In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia () is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods ( or demigods ), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whomever consumed it.
* Clay, Jenny Strauss, " Immortal and ageless forever ", The Classical Journal 77. 2 ( December 1981: pp. 112 – 117 ).
"... and among them went bright-eyed Athene, holding the precious aegis which is ageless and immortal: a hundred tassels of pure gold hang fluttering from it, tight-woven each of them, and each the worth of a hundred oxen.
But in 1952, when General Motors president Charles E. Wilson, nominated for a cabinet post, told Congress "... what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa ," he inspired one of Capp's greatest satires — the introduction of General Bullmoose, the robust, ruthless, and ageless business tycoon.
The " Rainbow Portrait ", c. 1600, an allegorical representation of the Queen, become ageless in her old age
In 2030 we will be ageless and everyone will have an excellent chance to live forever.
* The symbol of Hornsby Girls High School, Australia, is the " Torch of Knowledge " and words of the school song include " Minerva by our southern seas her sacred groves replanted, with whispering gums to woo the breeze that flows o ' er lands enchanted ; with ageless hills she rimmed her bower, her sunlit shrine of learning, and here we keep through shine and shower the Torch of Knowledge burning ..." ( NOTE on Australianisms: gums here means " gum trees " ( eucalyptus ), not a part of the mouth ).
The period of the books begins in the 1920s and moves to the 1970s as the 50 books progress ( the character being seemingly ageless ).
Reginald of Durham recounts another miracle, saying that his right arm was taken by a bird ( perhaps a raven ) to an ash tree, which gave the tree ageless vigor ; when the bird dropped the arm onto the ground, a spring emerged from the ground.
" As in Faust, a temptation is placed before the lead character Dorian, the potential for ageless beauty ; Dorian indulges in this temptation.
His use of Nadsat was essentially pragmatic ; he needed his narrator to have a unique voice that would remain ageless while reinforcing Alex's indifference to his society's norms, and to suggest that youth subculture existed independently of the rest of society.
She told her father when Odysseus ' men slaughtered some of his cattle which were ageless and deathless, like a forbidden fruit.
Although to Hesiod, she was an immortal and ageless nymph, according to Apollodorus, Echidna used to " carry off passers-by ", until she was finally killed where she slept by Argus Panoptes, the hundred-eyed giant.
Tithonus was a Trojan by birth, the son of King Laomedon of Troy by a water nymph named Strymo ( Στρυμώ promises too much, and might beguile Anchises into expecting too much, even an ageless immortality " ( p. 149 ).</ ref > According to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, when Eos asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal, she forgot to ask for eternal youth ( 218-38 ).
The Naiads were either daughters of Poseidon or various Oceanids, but a genealogy for such ancient, ageless creatures is easily overstated.
* She: A History of Adventure, an 1886 novel by H. Rider Haggard about an ageless woman who rules a lost African kingdom, who ages rapidly and dies at the end
Writer Greil Marcus described parts of Eat a Peach as an " after-the-rain celebration ... ageless, seamless ... front-porch music stolen from the utopia of shared southern memory.
This young man, who may be of gypsy origin, appears periodically in the canon, apparently ageless and family-free, in a supporting role as cook, receiver of parcels, valet, and as occasional minor comedy relief.
The lyrics tell a story of the ageless dragon Puff and his playmate Jackie Paper, a little boy who grows up and loses interest in the imaginary adventures of childhood and leaves Puff alone and depressed.
Michelangelo fixed our image of the sibyls forever, in his powerful representations of them, seated, both aged and ageless, beyond mere femininity, in the frescos of the Sistine Chapel.
The ageless wonder, Damon Allen, played his best game as an Argonaut in the 2004 Grey Cup Game in Ottawa.
They love humans, taking some for mates, and are nearly ageless.
* Beldeine Nyram is also a newly-raised Aes Sedai who does not have the ageless look yet.

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