She keeps coming back, from banishment and poisoned apples and even eternal sleep.
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Your child can basically have a dog in an eternal sleep, and what's cuter than that?
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A princess cursed with eternal sleep who can only wake up to a true love's kiss?
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These are whimsical poems that reveal the most familiar domestic settings as designed for eternal sleep.
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This has extended out to other icons whose legacies of action and energy seem at odds with eternal sleep.
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"I saw the graves of Beethoven and Schubert, and felt in my heart how happy I would be if I could have eternal sleep with them," he said.
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Weissman admitted to investigators, after her Miranda Rights were read to her, that she gave her boyfriend the Drano to help him to his "eternal sleep," and indicated that she meant death, Keller said.
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It was the record's first completed song, and remains its emotional centerpiece, a simple ballad that plays on its title's various meanings: in French, a plea to stay; in English, "respite," as well as an eternal sleep ("rest in peace").
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It's probably the toughest decision in the entire game: turn up your friend's dosage of painkiller to send her into an eternal sleep, or demand that she fights on, a hollow act of betrayal as both characters know there'll be no victory.
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Even at the most brutal part of my deep black metal years, you would find lines like "tears fall as I think of you" by Fenriz on "Natasja In Eternal Sleep," for example which would emphasize for me a more vulnerable side.
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Yes... the sweet feeling of... victory... I... feel great, elated... gold medal, yellow balloon... Olympic spirit coursing through my arteries... fries, nuggets, muffins... cold... shaking, so alone now... leave me here... I'm no use to you anymore... just leave, go on without me... just me and my medal, here, here, A146, Beccles... it's just me, my medal, and the Olympic spirit, waiting for eternal sleep... Follow Tom Usher on Twitter.
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In order to save Onpu from an eternal sleep, the girls give up their magical powers to awaken her.
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I did not always agree with him. But that does not matter. Poor Bruno Bettelheim. I would not want to disturb his eternal sleep with this.
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In the opera, Wotan confronts Brünhilde for saving Siegmund and confines her to eternal sleep, while in the game, she brings a magic artifact to the asteroid.
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Head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat, who also wrote "Hell Bent", understood that Rassilon was "alive, but in 'eternal sleep'", having got up from his eternal sleep to participate in the Time War, "And got killed. And resurrected. Because that happened a lot in the Time War." According to scriptwriter Terrance Dicks, who wrote The Five Doctors, Rassilon has "gone to a higher plane where he's a benevolent being who can, if he feels it's a big enough crisis, intervene".
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He watches over Natasha's eternal sleep when Hyōga is absent due to his responsibilities as a Saint. He helps Hyōga in various domestic tasks and also assisted the Saint in his escape from the Blue Warriors' imprisonment.
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In his glass bottle, he keeps her soul so that no evil spirit can disturb her eternal sleep. When Mark's wife Liza arrives, he is asleep. She undresses, and wakes him up. She wants him to return with her for surgery.
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In the Nièvre department, Fouché ransacked churches, sent their valuables to the treasury, and helped establish the Cult of Reason. He ordered the words "Death is an eternal sleep" to be inscribed over the gates to cemeteries. He also fought luxury and wealth, wanting to abolish the use of currency.
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Her songs from the album Lullabies for the eternal sleep were written by her and inspired by the traditional Jewish music. Critic notes that she can bring room to total silence when singing her songs, for example the one about Jewish political and social activist Mark Edelman's mural, for which the home association wanted money to be displayed on their house. The reviewer of her Pół na pół concert states that she is well known artists [..] whose music, while rather modest, is devoid of fireworks, and is revealing what's most important - the truth. Another critic notes that the most special concert was Lullabies for eternal sleep dedicated to a vanished Jewish district in Poznań where the synagogue was transformed into a swimming pool.
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Kumbhakarna was 2nd son of Vishrava and Kaikasi. He was younger brother of Ravana and elder brother Vibhisana and Surpanakha. Despite his gigantic size and great appetite, he was described to be of good character and great warrior in those times. When offered a boon by Brahma, he was tricked into asking for eternal sleep.
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Seto folksinger Anne Vabarna has created the epic "Songs of Peko" where Peko is depicted as a Seto hero. Peko is in eternal sleep in the cave. When someone calls his name, he brings the rain to the fields. If people of his kin remember his advice and work hard, Peko sends them abundant crops.
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After having her confession rejected by Lawson, she used the TA-21 to enter the heart of the Old Timer's Legacy she was researching. Entering an eternal sleep, she created the planet Sakura Taurus. Due to damage done to Sakura Taurus, Sara regains some consciousness. An extension of her hatred towards Lawson manifests itself and begins attacking the Estanatreich.
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" Thus he sealed his death sentence. Ali Khan-Razi, Aurangzeb's court chronicler, was present at the execution. He relates some of the mystic's verses uttered at the execution stand: "The Mullahs say Ahmed went to heaven, Sarmad says that heaven came down to Ahmed." ... "There was an uproar and we opened our eyes from the eternal sleep.
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In later second and third century AD Roman funerary art, the love of Selene for Endymion and his eternal sleep was a popular subject for artists.Sorabella, p. 70; Morford, p. 65. As frequently depicted on Roman sarcophagi, Selene, holding a billowing veil forming a crescent over her head, descends from her chariot to join her lover, who slumbers at her feet.
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Shrine of Data Durbar. Lahore is the city where mortal remains of the most romantic and artistic of all the Emperors of this sub continent exist. It is the city where the prettiest and most intelligent of all the Mughal queens, Nur Jahan lies in eternal sleep in a city which she loved the most. Here too lies the romantic legendary figure, Anarkali.
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At this early time, Mew the ancestor of Pokémon, appeared in the universe. After creating the Pokémon Earth, Arceus went into an eternal sleep. After Arceus' creation, Groudon, embodiment of the land; Kyogre, embodiment of the sea; and Rayquaza, embodiment of the sky; were born. They are sometimes unofficially known as "the weather trio", as each of these Pokémon possess weather-changing abilities.
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Zeus had the messenger of the gods, Hermes, kill Argus through eternal sleep and free Io. According to Ovid, to commemorate her faithful watchman, Hera had the hundred eyes of Argus preserved forever, in the peacock's tail.Ovid I, 625. The peacock is an Eastern bird, unknown to Greeks before the time of Alexander. Roundel with five-clawed dragon design, Qing-dynasty China, late 17th century.
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They hired Daniel (James Adam Lim), an acquaintance of Linda to decipher the book found in Kaiser Gardens. Billings returns to the property and is killed by The Veiled Demon. They discover that the family curse dates back to the Crusades and a djinn put Rose in eternal sleep. The group deduces that Iblis wants her and they must kill The Veiled Demon and awaken Rose.
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The door knocker is engraved with a bee carrying a skull. The bee, which is diligent and hard-working, represents the Mason in his organized work. The gradeamento which can be seen in the back of the tomb, is festooned with the symbolic wine and bread, the spirit and the body. There are also decorative owls, symbolizing wisdom, as well as poppies, the symbol of eternal sleep.
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Then, Satan and all his followers will receive the destination of their choice, the ultimate penalty—eternal separation from God—eternal death—eternal non-existence—eternal sleep. This great final cosmic execution of judgment concludes the plan of salvation. The universe is free from sin and death forevermore. The heart beat of all throughout the universe will beat to the pulse of eternal love.
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La Naissance D'Un Rêve is the second album by the German band Lacrimas Profundere. It was released through Witchhunt records and recorded at Zinnkopf Audio in Siegsdorf, Germany. The title is French for 'The Birth of a Dream.' The album was re-released three times: In 2002 in Korea containing two bonus tracks "The Meadows of Light" and "Eternal Sleep (Orchestral Version)" produced by Sail Productions.
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It approached them with a proposal - to choose between resurrection and glory or eternal sleep and idleness. Wishing to survive, they all chose resurrection and were each granted a Lostbelt as territory as well as a Servant. It also bestowed them with a special Command Spell, carved onto their souls. The Crypters were tasked with nurturing the Trees of Emptiness and expanding the Lostbelts, eventually creating the stage for its descent.
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Most of the aliens died in a crash and just a bunch of them, placed in suspended animation, survived. With no one to reanimate them, these poor creatures were doomed to the eternal sleep though. It was a shot from a Russian navy cruiser Aurora main gun that signaled the beginning of the October Revolution of 1917. Drunken sailors missed the Tsar's Winter Palace and hit the Moon instead.
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Unwilling to bury her out of sight in the ground, they instead place her in a glass coffin trimmed with gold in a clearing in the forest. Together with the woodland creatures, they keep watch over her. A year later, the prince from the beginning of the movie learns of her eternal sleep and visits her coffin. Saddened by her apparent death, he kisses her, which breaks the spell and awakens her.
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In 1789, Austin edited and published Thomas Dermody's first collection of poetry, Poems. In 1794, Austin published A Sermon on a Future State: Combating the Opinion that "Death is Eternal Sleep." American author Edgar Allan Poe (1844) described Austin's sermon as "nearly, if not quite the best 'Essay on a Future State' " (584). Austin published Sermons on Practical Subjects in 1795 and A Sermon for the Support of Mercer's Hospital in 1796.
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Poppies have long been used as a symbol of sleep, peace, and death: Sleep because the opium extracted from them is a sedative, and death because of the common blood-red color of the red poppy in particular. In Greek and Roman myths, poppies were used as offerings to the dead.L. Frank Baum, Michael Patrick Hearn, The Annotated Wizard of Oz, p. 173, Poppies used as emblems on tombstones symbolize eternal sleep.
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The wizard Merlyn is amused by this development, but his joy turns to sorrow as his memories of the future begin to fade. He realizes that Nimue, a beautiful water nymph, has come to draw him into her cave for an eternal sleep ("Follow Me"). He begs Nimue for answers, as he has forgotten if he has warned Arthur about two important individuals, Lancelot and Mordred. His memories fade permanently, though, and he is led away.
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In the same year she became an actress in Warsaw cabaret Pożar w Burdelu. In August 2014, she sung songs from the album Lullaby for eternal sleep during the Festival of Jewish Culture in Warsaw. In 2015, she performed at the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole as part of the concert commemorating the 100th anniversary of birth of Jeremi Przybora. During that concert she sang the song Nie pamiętam from the repertoire of Kalina Jędrusik.
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In the video game spin-off Code Geass: Lost Colors, if the player uses Rai's geass on Suzaku to make him join the Black Knights, Suzaku joins and brutally fights off the Britannian forces. He also participates in the Black Rebellion, which has the Black Knights winning the war. However, in forcing Suzaku to join, the player angers Lelouch, who wanted to recruit Suzaku without using Geass. Lelouch puts Rai into an eternal sleep, resulting in a game over.
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Songs and Dances of Death consists of four individual songs, as follows: 1\. Lullaby (Колыбельная) (14 April 1875) (in F-sharp minor–A minor) :A mother cradles her sick infant, who grows more feverish. Death appears, disguised as a babysitter, and rocks the infant to eternal sleep. 2\. Serenade (Серенада) (11 May 1875) (in E minor–E-flat minor) :The figure of Death waits outside the window of a dying woman, in the manner of a wooing lover. 3\.
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She suffered a lot and had very tough times but she never compromised with her principles. Neither she demanded nor accepted any favours from anyone throughout her life. Born at Saharanpur on 2 March 1939 in a Zamindaar family, Sunita zealously started working for the underprivileged after her marriage and remained involved with NFIW and Communist movement till her eternal sleep on Deepawali, 13 November 2012. Amarjeet Kaur, Secretary CPI National Council, Senior Communist Ramsaran Ram, Prof.
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He is talented despite his young age and because of this, stands at the top of his division. He put his parents into a deep eternal sleep when he overheard them plotting rebellion against Mondo and Sumire, so Nova would be the leader instead. But later, with the help of Felicità and also Mondo, he is able to wake them up again. He was engaged to Felicità when they were young but after the incident with his parents, he broke off the engagement.
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In a more general sense, the idea of eternal sleep rather than death provided comfort to the living family of the deceased. The removal of the finality of death brought about hope that the departed was not truly gone. Sleep leaves a person in a state where they are not present or aware of the world around them resonating deeply with death. The use of pastoral imagery as seen in shepherds further relays the peace and comfort that comes with sleep.
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Beleses believes this to be the prelude to a death sentence. Arbaces agrees: > Why, what other Interpretation should it bear? it is The very policy of > orient monarchs – Pardon and poison – favours and a sword – A distant > voyage, and an eternal sleep […] How many satraps have I seen set out In his > sire's day for mighty vice-royalties, Whose tombs are on their path! I know > not how, But they all sicken'd by the way, it was So long and heavy.
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According to the myths which talk of Persophone's Pearls, bringing visitors for lonely Persephone, these poppies induce waking sleep if picked and travelers forget their purpose, trapped wandering the underworld until they no longer are touching these flowers. In Swinburne's poems, however, the emphasis is on her role as goddess of death and eternal sleep. There are twelve stanzas in the poem. Each stanza is an "octave stanza" of eight lines, and all of the stanzas have the same internal pattern of rhymes.
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Believing the Battest had a spell to take away one's magical power, she undid the seal on Battest—however, seeing the result, she sealed the Battest again, having to be in eternal sleep (but not dead) to do so. After her sacrifice, Jewelina separated the twins, Alma and Yuma, to make sure that the Battest won't be unlocked. Fealina's Jewelpet partners were both Opal and Angela. By the Grand Prix Arc, Fealina is revived after the Battest has been sealed once again.
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Among the most common themes depicted on Roman sarcophagi spread over a hundred years are variants of the 'erotic sleeper'. The finality of death was avoided through depictions of the deceased alternatively as asleep. Rather than dealing with the permanent loss of a loved one, they could be imagined as still present in a way, and somewhat aware of the world around them. Sleep allowed for hope amongst the living that they may one day reunite with the deceased in dreams or in their own eternal sleep.
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Visitors cannot enter the rooms of the castle, but instead look through the windows to see the various scenes. Both the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault have written versions of the tale. The story is about a young maiden; who has been cursed by an evil fairy at birth and fell into an enchanted eternal sleep, and awaken by the kiss of a prince. Since 1999, a book with the tale of Sleeping Beauty can be read near the entrance in Dutch, English, German and French.
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Reaching the decision, Kiri lends Iwai his Crime Edge and slices Zewulfa for good. Living with normal hair, Kiri keeps his vow to stay by Iwai's side forever and kisses her. ; : :The younger sister of Houko Byouinzaka and Author of the Killing Good called "The Injection of Eternal Sleep" a syringe that can kill people either by being injected or being nicked. The original owner of her Killing Good was a medical professional, Florence Nightingale, who is known to have infected people with her poisonous vaccinations.
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Aikawa, Yakko, Shakti, Yukari and Hige manages to get all of them back from Shambhala to Earth using the Boat of Garuda with the help of the Sex Grail. As they return, Prof. Aikawa's group saw the two Sacred Egg, the one fall into a river and Ryu released while Surya still inside the other, floating in the sky. Surya fulfilled her promises with him, lying in fetal position to eternal sleep, which a Sacred Egg gets smaller and attaches itself into the grail.
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After the five Amazons gave birth against their will, they were magically forced into an eternal sleep. The infants were raised by the magically corrupted animals, and grew up at an accelerated rate. Thus mere months later the five brothers, looking to be about seven years old and having about thrice the maturity, were sent out in the world to turn it against Wonder Woman and the Amazons. The boys have a supernatural ability to influence those around them, overriding their mind with thoughts of violence, hatred, war and guilt.
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Once Io was given to Hera, she tied her to a tree and sent her servant Argus to keep Io separated from Zeus. Argus was a loyal servant to Hera and he has immense strength and one hundred eyes all over his body. It was not possible to go past Argus since he never closed more than half his eyes at any time. Zeus, afraid of Hera's wrath, could not personally intervene, so to save Io, he commanded Hermes to kill Argus, which he does by lulling all one hundred eyes into eternal sleep.
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Zyword is an unbalanced dimensional structure held by three connection spells called Dawn, Deep, and Omega. Since these spells are unstable, Zyword is vulnerable to complete chaos. That's exactly what happens when the three Goddesses of Zyword betray its citizens and cast them under a spell that could cause them all to die in an eternal sleep. Lunatia Araimel, a 14-year-old spell decipherer, and her 15-year-old friend, Roddy Lederide are the only ones that are able to escape from Araimel as the spell locks everyone in ice.
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In 2010 she released her debut studio album entitled Wyspa (Island). In the same year she traveled to Berlin where she they took part in workshops led by Daan van Kampenhout. It inspired her to write cycle of songs Kołysanki na wieczny sen (Lullabies for the eternal sleep) consisting of fourteen tracks sung in Hebrew and in Polish. Premiere concert took place during the Tzadik Festival in Poznan and in the beginning of October 2012 she published studio album of the same name recorded with a jazz quartet.
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S.) (King of Spirits in the anime) : The strongest and most ancient spirit which the Shaman King unites with, and the whole purpose of the Shaman Fight. Its physical form is of a massive swirling pillar of furyoku composed of trillions of interconnected spirits. All spirits come from the Great Spirit and return to it upon death, barring they become earthbound. Only shamans with a strong will are able to directly gaze upon the Great Spirit, as those who are too weak either fall into an eternal sleep or are driven insane from visions of the planet's memories.
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In the first season, the characters find their way through the dungeon to steal the statuette. (The last of the 12 statuettes of the prophecy). In the second season, they must cross the dangerous Earth of Fangh to meet with their employer, Gontran Teogal, in an inn of the lost city of Boulgourville. In the third season, they must steal the statuette again to save the world of the eternal sleep due to the return of the last god of chaos: Dlul the god of sleep and bore who is being summoned by the former employer of the adventurers.
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The placement of the portrait above the goddess was likely done to emphasize the beauty of the mother and describe her as coming to visit her sleeping family similar to other sarcophagi of this subject. Endymion would then be a broad representation of family rather than a husband. A child sarcophagus commissioned by his parents displaying this subject matter was likely comparing the child's beauty to that of Endymion rather than as something Romantic. The erotic nature of the myth is toned down and the focus is placed on the deceased imagined as Endymion resting in eternal sleep.
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Voiced by S. Scott Bullock, first appears in "King Tuck" (episode #33) Hotep-Ra is the mummy-like spirit of an ancient minion of King Duulamun, an Egyptian pharaoh who shares a remarkably similar appearance to Tucker Foley. He was released from his eternal sleep when Tucker looked into the mirror at the front of Ra's sarcophagus. He served Tucker and helped him regain his kingdom as pharaoh, but secretly planned to take over the kingdom once it was restored. Deceitful and sneaky, Hotep-Ra was eventually defeated by Tucker when he realized he had been used by Hotep-Ra.
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He led them back to the waterhole, and as they sat at the edge of the pool a great flood of honey from the honeysuckle buds engulfed them. Karora remained at the pool, but the sons were washed away to where the sandhill wallaby man they had lamed waited for them. The place became a great djang (sacred) place, and to this day one can see the brothers grouped around the sandhill wallaby man's body — a group of rocks positioned around a great boulder. Karora is said to remain at the waterhole, where he lies in eternal sleep.
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After killing Frank Kellogg, the man who was possessed by the demon Abraxas when Abraxas murdered his family, Nick prays to Lucifer, having realized that he enjoyed being the archangel's vessel and the freedom that came with it. In response to Nick's prayer, a figure with glowing red eyes rises in the Empty, presumably Lucifer himself, somehow awakened from his eternal sleep by Nick's prayer. In "Damaged Goods," Nick manages to track down the demon Abraxas who murdered his family. During a confrontation, Abraxas reveals to a shocked Nick that it was in fact Lucifer himself who ordered the death of Nick's family at Abraxas's hands.
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Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight is a 1914 poem by American poet Vachel Lindsay. It portrays Abraham Lincoln walking the streets of Springfield, Illinois, stirred from his eternal sleep, a man, who even in death, is burdened by the tragedies of the modern world. At the time the poem was written, Lindsay was depressed by knowledge of the blood and death exacted by World War I. The poem was included in Louis Untermeyer's anthology, Modern American Poetry, published in 1919 (see 1919 in poetry).Web page titled "Modern American Poetry/Edited by Louis Untermeyer", (with related pages giving the full content of the volume) at Bartleby.
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Eagle comes to Cephiro with hopes of duplicating the Pillar System back on his home world, and also wishes to actually become the Pillar for personal reasons. Eagle is in fact very sick and wasn't even supposed to be alive by the time he made it to Cephiro. Eagle reveals to Hikaru that he wants to become the Pillar to spare Lantis' life and be in an eternal sleep with Cephiro. In the end, Hikaru tells him it is unfair of him to leave all his loved ones behind and saves him, bringing him back to Cephiro and starting him on the road to restoring his health.
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Abbado's third movement was where his interpretation was at its most radical. Mahler had marked its opening as "Ruhevoll [peaceful], the long melodic line with its bell-like pizzicato imitative, Mahler told Bruno Walter, of 'recumbent stone figures, their arms crossed in eternal sleep on the tops of tombs'." Klemperer had "ungraciously and impatiently" adopted a tempo of crotchet = 72; Kubelik, a "limpid" crotchet = 56; Szell an "innig [intimate] and grave" crotchet = 52: Abbado began at crotchet = 40, in flagrant defiance of Mahler's wishes. Moreover, when, at Figure 2, Mahler stipulated that the tempo be changed from poco adagio to viel langsamer [much slower], Abbado actually accelerated from crotchet = 40 to crotchet = 46.
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As a military commander dispatched by the Jacobins to enforce their new laws, Fouché led a particularly zealous campaign of dechristianisation. His methods were brutal but efficient, and helped spread the developing creed through many parts of France. In his jurisdictions, Fouché ordered all crosses and statues removed from graveyards, and he gave the cult one of its elemental tenets when he decreed that all cemetery gates must bear only one inscription—"Death is an eternal sleep." Fouché went so far as to declare a new civic religion of his own, virtually interchangeable with what would become known as the Cult of Reason, at a ceremony he dubbed the "Feast of Brutus" on 22 September 1793.
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As such, Lantis, a powerful magic swordsman and Zagato's younger brother, wishes to end the Pillar system for those reasons. Eventually, Mokona narrows the candidates down to two: Hikaru and the sickly Eagle Vision of Autozam, who is friends with Lantis and, as such, wishes to end the Pillar system for him with his eternal sleep. As the two undergo the test to become the new Pillar in a recreation of Tokyo, Mokona reveals itself to be the creator of Cephiro and its laws, both of which it had created after sadly witnessing the violence and destructive nature of the people on its earlier creation, Earth. It was responsible for bringing the three girls back to Cephiro.
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The Queen is one of the four Disney Villains that appear in 1999 video game Disney's Villains' Revenge, voiced by Louise Chamis. Jiminy Cricket and the player venture into the worlds of the stories to restore the happy endings. In the altered (and game's final) story, where there is no Prince, the Queen (appearing in both of her forms) has built a lair resembling her poisoned apple inside the scary wood, and has put Snow White to eternal sleep in her dungeon and intends to do the same to the Seven Dwarfs. The player needs to correctly mix ingredients for several potions including the True Love Potion to magically summon the Prince and save the day.
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He further learns that the King, depressed at the departure of his wife, decided to build the statue to serve as his lasting legacy, but his powers began to fade until he fell into an eternal sleep. Monroe climbs his way to the top of the statue where he finds the King, who finally wakes up. The King (voiced by Terry Gilliam) recounts to Monroe of a strange dream he had, and how he has come to accept that his works and the painted world will not last forever and will eventually fade away. The King then passes his silver paintbrush on to Monroe and confirms Monroe is his son before sending him back to the real world.
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Spin-off writer and DWM columnist Jacqueline Rayner described his condition as "a permanent sleep which is pretty much indistinguishable from death", and that "He's immortal, but he has no awareness," and when the trap inside the Tomb of Rassilon is triggered, "he becomes semi-aware so he can oversee or judge what's going on, before going back into his eternal sleep again". DWM deputy editor Peter Ware believed that Rassilon is dead by the time of The Five Doctors, and his dead mind is speaking from the Matrix to the Doctors and Borusa. He mentions the line from the episode "Hell Bent" (2015)—"Rassilon the resurrected", as further proof that he had died. Doctor Who scriptwriter Mark Gatiss quipped that Rassilon is "biding his time until he regenerates into [actor] Daniel Craig".
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According to Jon Anderson, the inspiration for lyrics came from an article which claims that "sleep is death's little sister", and the lyrics expand on the idea that death could be beautiful. The mountain referenced in the lyrics is a goal humanity struggles to attain, after which there is death, a set of transitions leading to "eternal sleep or the next life span". Chris Squire explained that Anderson wrote the first verse with acoustic guitar; Squire takes credit for the riff in the chorus (in the words of Steve Howe, "do-de-do-do-do") and for a section in the middle of the song. The guitar riff for the song, said Steve Howe, came from a composition by his earlier band, Bodast, and the song was rarely played live because "the vocal section came up short".
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The leaves did not stir on the trees, > crickets chirped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea, rising up from > below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have > sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now; and it > will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in > this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each > of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the > unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards > perfection. Sitting beside a young woman who in the dawn seemed so lovely, > soothed and spellbound in these magical surroundings—the sea, mountains, > clouds, the wide open sky—Gurov thought how in reality everything is > beautiful in this world when one reflects: everything except what we think > or do ourselves when we forget our human dignity and the higher aims of our > existence.
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