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  • It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns.   (source)
    labyrinth = complex system
  • The instructions to turn always to the left reminded me that such was the common procedure for discovering the central point of certain labyrinths.   (source)
    labyrinths = a maze (a complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost)
  • In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed.†   (source)
  • Theseus killed him in the labyrinth.†   (source)
  • Spaces she once knew as familiar—the four-room flat she shares with her father, the little tree-lined square at the end of their street—have become labyrinths bristling with hazards.†   (source)
  • Then he remembered strawberry fields from before Manza-nar and he was in them as he'd always been, a sea of strawberries, rows and rows, a labyrinth of runners as intricate as a network of arteries feeding on the surface of a dozen farms he knew from childhood.†   (source)
  • Mae followed, almost giddy, intrigued by his extraordinary access, too tipsy to measure the wisdom of following this calligraphic man through this labyrinth.†   (source)
  • Rubbing her hand, her pursuer followed again, keeping her distance now, as they moved deeper into the deserted labyrinth of brick houses.†   (source)
  • Of course; corsets required assistance to get in and out of—and the dresses were a labyrinth of secret clasps and ties.†   (source)
  • The sky was turning the color of a fresh bruise as we pulled into my grandfather's subdivision, a bewildering labyrinth of interlocking cul-de-sacs known collectively as Circle Village.†   (source)
  • To a boy, Winterfell was a grey stone labyrinth of walls and towers and courtyards and tunnels spreading out in all directions.†   (source)
  • Here they were hidden from view, and as Kate waited for Reynie to catch his breath, she jerked her thumb behind them, where the land erupted into a jumbled labyrinth of dunes and rocky hills.†   (source)
  • She trapped herself, she marched into the labyrinth of her own construction, and was too young, too awestruck, too keen to please, to insist on making her own way back.†   (source)
  • Margo asked as I turned on the lights and, driving forward now, began to navigate the suburban labyrinth back toward the interstate.†   (source)
  • Apartments in this corner of the city had once been spacious and desirable but had been so subdivided and remodeled over time—always trying to cram more people into the same square footage—that the buildings had become labyrinths of corridors and stairwells.†   (source)
  • They wandered the labyrinth, preying on anything unlucky enough to cross their path.†   (source)
  • "Right," I said, looking down at the labyrinth at the foot of the stairs, blond wood like honey, dark wood like poured molasses, gleams of brass and gilt and silver in the weak light.†   (source)
  • The path becomes a labyrinth.†   (source)
  • Eragon followed the dwarf back into Tronjheim and through a labyrinth of corridors until they came to a long room filled with rows of stone tables only high enough for dwarves.†   (source)
  • It always took him a few moments to find his way out of that other world, the labyrinth of printed letters.†   (source)
  • l had found an entrance to Hyperion's labyrinth.†   (source)
  • The further you went into the labyrinth of narrow alleys, the livelier and more urgent the trade was.†   (source)
  • The forest spread out around us in a boundless labyrinth of ancient trees, and I began to be nervous that we would never find our way out again.†   (source)
  • Across the street, next to a mosque with soaring minarets, was the bazaar, composed of congested labyrinths of both vaulted and open alleyways.†   (source)
  • Don't worry," disappearing into the underworld labyrinth of the New York music scene for months, playing sax with this or that band, selling a piece of music here and there.†   (source)
  • Few stories from Greek mythology capture the imagination like that of Daedalus and Icarus: the ingenious father's attempt to save his son from a tyrant as well as from his own invention (the labyrinth) by coming up with an even more marvelous creation; the solemn parental warning ignored in a burst of youthful exuberance; the fall from a great height; a father's terrible grief and guilt.†   (source)
  • A turn to the right, a few steps down, right again ...what an endless labyrinth this prison was.†   (source)
  • I needed to let the lust, the excitement blot out all consciousness, and I thought of the kill over and over and over, walking slowly up this street and down the next, moving inexorably towards it, saying, It's a string which is pulling me through the labyrinth.†   (source)
  • Always needs more fueL Ever read the story about the labyrinth and the minotaur?†   (source)
  • The big house on the corner soon came to resemble a labyrinth.†   (source)
  • That was the end of the labyrinth.†   (source)
  • He became familiar with all the labyrinths of the family business.†   (source)
  • "Long ago," she would smile, "long before you were a dream, long before the train came to Las Pasturas, before the Lunas came to their valley, before the great Coronado built his bridge—" Then her voice would trail off and my thoughts would be lost in the labyrinth of a time and history I did not know.†   (source)
  • The shadows of the massed black pines were lavender in that bright light, and I walked with Valerie awhile, down the familiar labyrinth of shoveled asylum paths.†   (source)
  • Turning toward it, I saw a labyrinth of headstones stretching like dominoes into the mist.†   (source)
  • Just the great dark library with its labyrinths and hedgerow mazes of sleeping books.†   (source)
  • The place was dark and the clunk of the door as he shut it echoed through the lifeless labyrinth of rooms.†   (source)
  • The colors on the walls blared at them— like frozen music; he had the feeling that these rooms would never cease folding in on each other, that this labyrinth was eternal.†   (source)
  • Laura began, snapping on the overly bright overhead light, scaring off whatever shy passion Yoyo, with the blue thread of her writing, had just begun coaxing out of a labyrinth of feelings.†   (source)
  • The answer lies hidden in the labyrinth of tropical ecosystems.†   (source)
  • In the organized chaos of the hospital, in the labyrinth of corridors, in the stink and confinement of its walls, he found both order and refuge; he found home.†   (source)
  • Across a labyrinth of empty corridors, an angular, almond-eyed boy is holed up in a deserted chemistry classroom.†   (source)
  • This was a labyrinth.†   (source)
  • No matter how many twists and turns they take in the underground labyrinth of filthy, sweltering hot passages, they can't lose the man on their tail.†   (source)
  • And what is the connection between Us and Them, how many bundled links do we find in the neural labyrinth?†   (source)
  • You mustn't upset Peg," the old man cautioned, tightening the labyrinth of ropes and knots around Max, whose eyelids fluttered with pain and exhaustion.†   (source)
  • THAT DAY was the beginning of a long, torturous expedition through the labyrinth of the U.S. criminal justice system.†   (source)
  • Let me search for the clue which led great Shake-speare into the labyrinth of human nature.†   (source)
  • Jack and John concurred, and they let Charles lead the way through the labyrinth of streets.†   (source)
  • His brows drew together in concentration as he maneuvered his way through the security labyrinth.†   (source)
  • Below the surface was the labyrinth of caves and tunnels.†   (source)
  • The top floor where they slept had a normal locking door that opened Onto a walkway, which was part of a labyrinth of suspended walkways linking many homes.†   (source)
  • The labyrinth of Tora Bora, just across the border, would baffle American Special Forces who tried unsuccessfully, according to locals who claim to have protected him, to prevent Osama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda comrades from slipping into Waziristan.†   (source)
  • The gutted structure crouches like a wounded animal amid a labyrinth of crumbling dwellings.†   (source)
  • It may not be the identity you want, but God knows it's better than wandering blindly through that awful labyrinth you face every day.†   (source)
  • Fast as I can, I bolt away from him, running through a labyrinth of headstones as the sky explodes in thunder.†   (source)
  • Fifteen minutes later we were making our way through the iron labyrinth of Pretoria Local, with its endless series of clanging metal doors echoing in our ears.†   (source)
  • But looking around this dark labyrinth I saw many tunnels that led off to places unknown.†   (source)
  • The map showed what must have happened; the other two holes came up from small side tunnels, this tunnel was part of their main labyrinth — so the other two had been diversions and their main attack had come from here.†   (source)
  • Here, in this spacious centre of the labyrinth of 18th-century Dutch defense I sit on one of the giant sofas, in the noisy solitude of the afternoon while the rest of the house is asleep.†   (source)
  • My head started to pound and my stomach tightened as I made my way back through the labyrinth of steel and concrete.†   (source)
  • If America is not connected at all or only by the feeble tie of a league, foreign alliances will gradually entangle it in all the harmful labyrinths of European politics and wars.†   (source)
  • Even a stray unkind remark about the king or his family could result in a sojourn of indeterminate length in the GID's labyrinth of secret detention centers.†   (source)
  • Well, he got me out of town by a route which, if I could have remembered it, let alone followed it, would have made the path into the Labyrinth at Knossos seem like a thruway.†   (source)
  • For a time Liz said nothing; she stared through the windshield down the empty road, confused and lost in a labyrinth of half-formed thoughts.†   (source)
  • Lawn and the American cult of the dead; possibly some dim hope that Senator McCarthy, and others of his persuasion, in those days having achieved a certain ascendancy over the rich cretins from across the sea, would somehow refocus attention on the fallen of WWII, especially ones whose corpses had never been found; out of some such labyrinth of assumed motives Tony Jaguar decided he could surely unload his harvest of bones on some American someplace, through his contacts in the "family," ' known these days as Cosa Nostra.†   (source)
  • Two days later I arrived in the windswept, graysouled capital of Canada and found my way into the dingy labyrinth which housed the Wildlife Service.†   (source)
  • As they sped from chamber to vaulted chamber, down tunnels and chasms and wells, through labyrinths and grottoes and corridors of stone, Sam set his mind adrift, to move down the ways of memory and back.†   (source)
  • This was an eerie organdy and chintz labyrinth glowing at high noon in the empurpled half-light of a mausoleum, where rosy cupids simpered from the walls down upon a grand piano in fire-engine red and overstuffed chairs glistening beneath protective shrouds of transparent plastic, and where the porcelain bathroom fixtures were jet-black.†   (source)
  • But Hodge evaded the labyrinth.†   (source)
  • It is like a labyrinth.†   (source)
  • The house was a labyrinth set with statues-Venus, Hermes, Demeter, and with singing ocean shells on draped pedestals.†   (source)
  • That's a complicated labyrinth you've got up there, Chooka.†   (source)
  • It was a very poor quarter, a labyrinth of squalid bamboo huts, thatched with palmleaf, winding all over a steep hillside.   (source)
    labyrinth = (a complex system of paths in which it is easy to get lost
  • On impulse he had turned away from the bus-stop and wandered off into the labyrinth of London, first south, then east, then north again, losing himself among unknown streets and hardly bothering in which direction he was going.   (source)
    labyrinth = complex paths
  • Meanwhile, carried away as we are by our narrative, we must leave our three friends to themselves, and follow the Duke of Buckingham and his guide through the labyrinths of the Louvre.   (source)
  • How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!†   (source)
  • He had no idea how long he had been standing there, his eyes lost in the labyrinth of letters.†   (source)
  • "Another question," Sato said as they hastened deeper into the labyrinth.†   (source)
  • It read: Scimitar of Kampe, destroyed in the Battle of the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • But when he found himself lost in the labyrinth of Miss Lynch, he no longer was jesting.†   (source)
  • Will you be going to the labyrinth or the artifacts called the Time Tombs?†   (source)
  • Then the king put them into the labyrinth, and the minotaur ate them up.†   (source)
  • He became lost in misty byways, in times reserved for oblivion, in labyrinths of disappointment.†   (source)
  • So how will we ever get out of this labyrinth, Colonel?†   (source)
  • All we had to do was get downstairs and find the Labyrinth entrance.†   (source)
  • Holding our breaths, we would make our way stealthily through our labyrinths of shadow.†   (source)
  • A labyrinth of enterprises owned by each other.†   (source)
  • Send them into the labyrinth by the millions to be eaten up.†   (source)
  • No legend or artifact of the Labyrinth Builders has survived.†   (source)
  • My copy of The General in His Labyrinth is absolutely ruined.†   (source)
  • In a crouch, he started running south through the labyrinth.†   (source)
  • What better place to hide than in a giant labyrinth?†   (source)
  • And you believe this young man, Luke, would dare use the Labyrinth as an invasion route?†   (source)
  • There are planetary archaeohistorians who devote their lives to the study of the labyrinths.†   (source)
  • When I die, the Labyrinth will die as well.†   (source)
  • How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!†   (source)
  • I know Daedalus's Labyrinth better than anybody.†   (source)
  • How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?†   (source)
  • Why choose them when there are big mysteries to study on Hyperion...like the labyrinths!†   (source)
  • The Labyrinth won't be able to fool you as easily.†   (source)
  • Do you see The General in His Labyrinth anywhere?†   (source)
  • The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it.†   (source)
  • What does an entrance to the Labyrinth look like?†   (source)
  • No wonder Clarisse didn't want anything to do with the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • Is that labyrinth really worse than this one?†   (source)
  • The idea made me almost as nervous as a door into the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • "The Labyrinth has been busy," Daedalus corrected.†   (source)
  • Three nights ago he slipped into the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • Then the Titan lord's army exploded from the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • When it was my turn to sleep, I dreamed I was back in the old man's Labyrinth prison.†   (source)
  • Which is why the Labyrinth cannot continue.†   (source)
  • Because anybody who can make something like the Labyrinth, Percy?†   (source)
  • The only thing they got out of him: Luke's men have been exploring the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • For better or worse, we were back in the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • He got me involved because ...well, the Labyrinth has always been one of my favorite subjects.†   (source)
  • His black clothes were dusty from traveling in the Labyrinth, and his dark eyes were full of hate.†   (source)
  • The Labyrinth is magical architecture, Percy.†   (source)
  • His Labyrinth is as much a mystery to me as it is to you.†   (source)
  • So ...is the Labyrinth part of the Underworld?†   (source)
  • "The Labyrinth is a patchwork," Annabeth said.†   (source)
  • Tomorrow at dawn, we send you into the Labyrinth?†   (source)
  • I mean, if he gives Luke a way to navigate the Labyrinth, we're dead.†   (source)
  • But I figured out how to get through the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • Our chances will be better— of finding an entrance to the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • You knew about the Labyrinth entrance, and you didn't say anything?†   (source)
  • The best we can do is prevent Luke from learning to navigate the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • As long as the Labyrinth is here, your enemies can use it.†   (source)
  • It was Chris Rodriguez, the half-blood who'd gone insane in the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • He threw himself into the sea because he thought I was dead in the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • "Luke must have known about the Labyrinth entrance," Annabeth said.†   (source)
  • Chiron had decided we needed to guard the Labyrinth exit at all times, just in case.†   (source)
  • But you said the Labyrinth is tied to your life force!†   (source)
  • He created the Labyrinth, but much more.†   (source)
  • And even if he were alive, don't the old stories say he fled from the Labyrinth?†   (source)
  • "My creation will show you the way," Hephaestus said "It is not far through the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • Will this quest into the Labyrinth help me win her back?†   (source)
  • "Time is faster in the Labyrinth," Grover reminded me.†   (source)
  • But she got to her feet, and we started straggling through the Labyrinth again.†   (source)
  • But the point is, the Labyrinth has entrances everywhere.†   (source)
  • He's trying to find a way to navigate the Labyrinth so he can invade our camp.†   (source)
  • The giants trampled the dracaenae trying to get into the Labyrinth first.†   (source)
  • If the legends are true, his workshop is in the center of the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • "We get a load of visitors from the Labyrinth," Eurytion said darkly.†   (source)
  • You can get anywhere through the Labyrinth?†   (source)
  • "We have to find an entrance to the Labyrinth," Annabeth said.†   (source)
  • The Labyrinth is under some building in America.†   (source)
  • If Daedalus died ...he said his life force was tied to the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • "But," Annabeth said, "the Labyrinth can lead you almost anywhere.†   (source)
  • You came through the Labyrinth like the other one, I reckon.†   (source)
  • Well, there may be passages from the Labyrinth down into the Underworld.†   (source)
  • He wouldn't want me knowing too much about how to find my way out of this labyrinth.†   (source)
  • After my son was born and locked in the Labyrinth, Minos refused to have anything to do with me.†   (source)
  • It was a labyrinth down here; there was no way to know which direction he should go.†   (source)
  • Max gazed at the wood, a dark labyrinth of tangled trunks and branches.†   (source)
  • You could go to the Labyrinth and return.†   (source)
  • The whole area might be a labyrinth of tunnels that harbored one monster or many.†   (source)
  • We're third formers, so our sign is the silver labyrinth of the Goddess Nyx.†   (source)
  • He's stuck in a cellblock, lost in the labyrinth of Serra's prisons.†   (source)
  • Like Theseus in the Minotaur's labyrinth, Max would leave a trail so he could retrace his steps.†   (source)
  • That is in part why I retreated to the Spiral Labyrinth after the Uprising.†   (source)
  • Maybe the labyrinth could regenerate, like monsters.†   (source)
  • 4 Colin searched through a labyrinth of cabinets for a plate, a cup, and sonic silverware.†   (source)
  • The pattern reminds me of Pasiphae's pendant: the symbol of the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • She'd driven a small wedge into the magic fabric of the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • The sound made me wish Jeb would lead me through the labyrinth at a quicker pace.†   (source)
  • His personal labyrinth had no walls, no defined corridors through which to race.†   (source)
  • It was easy to get lost in that frozen labyrinth, but Theon Greyjoy knew every twist and turning.†   (source)
  • The Illustrated Man trod cat-soft in the labyrinths of shelved and darkly waiting books.†   (source)
  • I will have to find other victims for my Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • The man she loved would be returned to his labyrinth.†   (source)
  • What if this was an older version of the labyrinth?†   (source)
  • I can use any subterranean gateway—even this arch—to access the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • The instructions of the Spiral Labyrinth were followed to the letter.†   (source)
  • I am in my labyrinth again, and the walls are imbedded with spikes.†   (source)
  • If Pasiphae has remade the Labyrinth the way she wanted ...†   (source)
  • The labyrinth made distance meaningless.†   (source)
  • Emma had seen it before in her Codex: the sigil of the Spiral Labyrinth of the warlocks.†   (source)
  • Twice now, I've been forced to fight in stadiums—once in Rome, and before that in the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • Well, you said the Labyrinth could take you anywhere.†   (source)
  • It was a fire-message, addressed to her from the Spiral Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • He ran wildly, blindly, the bodies in front of him the movable walls of his labyrinth.†   (source)
  • I can raise part of the Labyrinth to the surface.†   (source)
  • She bent all her will into redirecting the magic of the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • He was back in a labyrinth, racing blindly, knowing, finally, there was no escape.†   (source)
  • She thought she heard a mention of the Spiral Labyrinth, but she wasn't positive.†   (source)
  • Otherwise the Labyrinth would trick you and try to kill you at every turn.†   (source)
  • She says that the warlocks of the Spiral Labyrinth have examined the body of Amalric Kriegsmesser.†   (source)
  • There was no darkness; the afternoon sun was bright, as blinding as his race through the labyrinth.†   (source)
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