"Demigod" Quotes from Famous Books
... in his swivel-chair as a kind of despondent demigod, a Titan weary of the eternal strife. She tried to rise beyond a poetical height to the ... — The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes
... which walled her coasts; with Spain and the Pope to back him, and the wealth of the Jesuits at his command; in the midst of faithful Catholics, valiant soldiers, noblemen who had pledged themselves to die for the cause, serfs who worshipped him as a demigod—starved to death in a bog! It was a pretty plain verdict on the reasonableness of his expectations; ... — Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley |