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  • The Labyrinth was built to hold the Minotaur.
    Minotaur = Greek mythology:  a creature that was part man and part bull
  • A Minotaur horn hung on the wall next to my pillow.†   (source)
  • Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood Hill.†   (source)
  • Most of them were text adventure games: Raaka-tu, Bedlam, Pyramid, and Madness and the Minotaur.†   (source)
  • I managed to sidestep the first kid's swing, but these guys were not as stupid the Minotaur.†   (source)
  • I understand you once killed my Minotaur with your bare hands.†   (source)
  • This child was no Minotaur, but a mortal.†   (source)
  • Then the king put them into the labyrinth, and the minotaur ate them up.†   (source)
  • I hung the shield on its hook, next to the Minotaur horn, but it was painful to look at now.†   (source)
  • He pointed across the valley, to the pine tree where I'd fought the minotaur.†   (source)
  • How did Pasiphae take the Minotaur's death?"†   (source)
  • You mean the maze where they kept the Minotaur, back in the old days?†   (source)
  • She had seen the Minotaur on HalfBlood Hill and known exactly what it was.†   (source)
  • I mean she was taken away from the Minotaur before she could die.†   (source)
  • You helped the Athenian kill my Minotaur, Daedalus.†   (source)
  • The Minotaur was larger than it had been, its flesh plump, pressing at the metal lattice.†   (source)
  • Grover offered to carry the Minotaur horn, but I held on to it.†   (source)
  • It had touched me after the Minotaur's birth, until Dicte's waters washed me clean.†   (source)
  • Scylla and Glaucos, Aeetes, the Minotaur.†   (source)
  • One pointed to the minotaur horn I was carrying.†   (source)
  • But its presence didn't feel evil, like my demonic math teacher Mrs. Dodds or the Minotaur.†   (source)
  • "The mother of the Minotaur," Telemachus said.†   (source)
  • My fingers curled around the Minotaur's horn.†   (source)
  • From my mother and Oceanos, from the Minotaur and Pasiphad and Aeetes.†   (source)
  • The Minotaur and Trygon, and how many others?†   (source)
  • Next to that, my victory over the Minotaur didn't seem like much.†   (source)
  • Hades had tried to kill me three times so far, with the Fury, the Minotaur, and the hellhound.†   (source)
  • I thought of Ariadne reaching out her hands to the Minotaur, and the scar on her neck.†   (source)
  • She glanced at the minotaur horn in my hands, then back at me.†   (source)
  • Her face was distorted with pain, as if the Minotaur were still squeezing her neck.†   (source)
  • Look, if the thing I fought really was the Minotaur, the same one in the stories …†   (source)
  • If you weren't like us, you couldn't have survived the Minotaur, much less the ambrosia and nectar.†   (source)
  • You know"-he pointed to the horn in the shoe box-"that you have killed the Minotaur.†   (source)
  • Minotaur probably fell over laughing, he was so stupid looking.†   (source)
  • She'd given birth to the Minotaur—half man, half bull.†   (source)
  • And Percy, the monster leading the enemy … it's the Minotaur:'†   (source)
  • The Minotaur was one of the first monsters I'd ever defeated.†   (source)
  • To Hazel, the Minotaur had always seemed like a victim in the story.†   (source)
  • "The Minotaur," Hazel suddenly remembered.†   (source)
  • Monsters jeered and shouted, and the Minotaur picked up another car.†   (source)
  • Theseus killed the Minotaur and stole your daughter Ariadne.†   (source)
  • That's a load of Minotaur dung," Thalia said.†   (source)
  • When the Minotaur saw me, his eyes burned with hate.†   (source)
  • The shaft was about the same height as the Minotaur, bronze wrapped in leather.†   (source)
  • I was so mad, I imagined my eyes glowing just like the Minotaur's.†   (source)
  • The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities.†   (source)
  • Like … the Minotaur and the Hydra?†   (source)
  • Back in the old days, the king of Crete had ordered him to build a maze to contain the monstrous Minotaur.†   (source)
  • Are those Minotaur-shaped?†   (source)
  • I'd grown up hearing stories about him fighting the Minotaur and stuff, but I'd always pictured him as this huge, buff guy.†   (source)
  • After I left, Daedalus built his great maze indeed, the Labyrinth, whose walls confounded the Minotaur's rage.†   (source)
  • I had been so consumed with the Minotaur that I had not seen what a triumph this had all been for her.†   (source)
  • He pressed hard to wrap me up, bringing gifts and news, unfolding the whole tale of the Minotaur to me without my asking.†   (source)
  • I was there when the Minotaur was born.†   (source)
  • When I had stepped into the water, I had told myself that this would be only another Minotaur to wrestle, another Olympian I might outwit.†   (source)
  • They would wither, and I would burn their bodies and watch my memories of them yellow and fade as everything faded in the endless wash of centuries, even Daedalus, even the blood-spatter of the Minotaur, even Scylla's appetites.†   (source)
  • The Minotaur.†   (source)
  • I imagined she was going to say, You killed a minotaur! or Wow, you're so awesome! or something like that.†   (source)
  • Clarisse's friends were all laughing, and I was trying to find the strength I'd used to fight the Minotaur, but it just wasn't there.†   (source)
  • Thankfully, nobody paid much attention to me as I walked over to my spot on the floor and plopped down with my minotaur horn.†   (source)
  • I had plenty of room for all my stuff: the Minotaur's horn, one set of spare clothes, and a toiletry bag.†   (source)
  • I decided to leave the Minotaur horn in my cabin, which left me only an extra change of clothes and a toothbrush to stuff in a backpack Grover had found for me.†   (source)
  • She didn't remember anything since the Minotaur, and couldn't believe it when Gabe told her I was a wanted criminal, traveling across the country, blowing up national monuments.†   (source)
  • The only thing I really excelled at was canoeing, and that wasn't the kind of heroic skill people expected to see from the kid who had beaten the Minotaur.†   (source)
  • It exploded on the steps in front of me, and there was my mother, frozen in a shower of gold, just as she was at the moment when the Minotaur began to squeeze her to death.†   (source)
  • I handed Annabeth my minotaur horn and got ready to fight, but before I knew it, Clarisse had me by the neck and was dragging me toward a cinder-block building that I knew immediately was the bathroom.†   (source)
  • Same as your minotaur horn.†   (source)
  • The Minotaur.†   (source)
  • To fight the Minotaur!†   (source)
  • Just the Minotaur's horn.†   (source)
  • He didn't belong in this multitude of monsters any more than the Minotaur belonged in Penn Station at rush hour.†   (source)
  • The Minotaur was giving the thumbs-up.†   (source)
  • I'd made my bunk bed that morning (well, sort of) and straightened the Minotaur horn on the wall, so I gave myself a four out of five.†   (source)
  • As they sailed, Frank kept her spirits up by telling her silly jokes— Why did the Minotaur cross the road?†   (source)
  • Grover, his best friend, had protected Percy for almost a year before Percy even realized he was a demigod, and Grover had almost gotten killed by the Minotaur.†   (source)
  • That's why the Minotaur story bothered Hazel—not just the repellent idea of Pasiphae and the bull, but the idea that a child, any child, could be considered a monster, a punishment to its parents, to be locked away and hated.†   (source)
  • The Minotaur locked away.†   (source)
  • The monster army cheered for the Minotaur, but the sound died when I dodged his first swing and sliced his axe in half, right between the handholds.†   (source)
  • There were miniature lions, pigs, dragons, hydras, even a teeny Minotaur in a little Minotaur diaper.†   (source)
  • The Minotaur didn't even slow down.†   (source)
  • More monsters surged forward—snakes and giants and telkhines—but the Minotaur roared at them, and they backed off.†   (source)
  • The Minotaur must've smelled victory.†   (source)
  • The Minotaur's nostrils quivered.†   (source)
  • The Minotaur bellowed in rage.†   (source)
  • Theseus, the hero-slayer of the Minotaur, entered Crete from without, as the symbol and arm of the rising civilization of the Greeks.†   (source)
  • Whatever house he builds, it will be a house of death: a labyrinth of cyclopean walls to hide from him his Minotaur.†   (source)
  • Therein the Minotaur was settled; and he was fed, thereafter, on groups of living youths and maidens, carried as tribute from the conquered nations within the Cretan domain.†   (source)
  • Alas, where is the guide, that fond virgin, Ariadne, to supply the simple clue that will give us courage to face the Minotaur, and the means then to find our way to freedom when the monster has been met and slain?†   (source)
  • That perhaps is how the divine Minos became the monster Minotaur, the self-annihilate king the tyrant Holdfast, and the hieratic state, wherein every man enacts his role, the merchant empire, wherein each is out for himself.†   (source)
  • Uncomprehended inherited themes, such as that of the Minotaur—the dark and terrible night aspect of an old Egypto-Cretan representation of the incarnate sun god and divine king—were rationalized and reinterpreted to suit contemporary ends.†   (source)
  • Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, fell in love with the handsome Theseus the moment she saw him disembark from the boat that had brought the pitiful group of Athenian youths and maidens for the Minotaur.†   (source)
  • The hero can go forth of his own volition to accomplish the adventure, as did Theseus when he arrived in his father's city, Athens, and heard the horrible history of the Minotaur; or he may be carried or sent abroad by some benign or malignant agent, as was Odysseus, driven about the Mediterranean by the winds of the angered god Poseidon.†   (source)
  • An outlandish delegate sustained against both these views, with such heat as almost carried conviction, the theory of copulation between women and the males of brutes, his authority being his own avouchment in support of fables such as that of the Minotaur which the genius of the elegant Latin poet has handed down to us in the pages of his Metamorphoses.†   (source)
  • —The Minotaur.†   (source)
  • *rode The red statue of Mars with spear and targe* *shield So shineth in his white banner large That all the fieldes glitter up and down: And by his banner borne is his pennon Of gold full rich, in which there was y-beat* *stamped The Minotaur<8> which that he slew in Crete Thus rit this Duke, thus rit this conqueror And in his host of chivalry the flower, Till that he came to Thebes, and alight Fair in a field, there as he thought to fight.†   (source)
  • As a bull that breaks away at the instant he has now received his mortal stroke, and cannot go, but plunges hither and thither, the Minotaur I saw do the like.†   (source)
  • —The Minotaur.†   (source)
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