Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A poetic epithet (Gr.
σεισ, σ1ίχθων ), applied to Poseidon and Zeus.
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Examples
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It's Poseidon — the god of the sea, the enemy of Odysseus, the earth-shaker — as a hydrostatically pressurized steel platform against a mechanomorphosized Aeolus, the ruler of the winds.
Poseidon vs. Aeolus 2007
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This halfway point also marks the annual appearance in the German papers of articles asking, at least of the Competition, Where's the earth-shaker?
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It's Poseidon — the god of the sea, the enemy of Odysseus, the earth-shaker — as a hydrostatically pressurized steel platform against a mechanomorphosized Aeolus, the ruler of the winds.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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Was he modern history's greatest revolutionary and an earth-shaker, or a demented mass murderer who nearly destroyed China, as his critics claim?
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Named Seismosaurus ( "earth-shaker"), it lived in New Mexico and grew to 140 feet in length and weighed 60 to 90 tons.
New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur 2008
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My thoughts: While it wasn't an earth-shaker, this book was a good, quick read with a lot of Southern flavour.
Review: My Summer of Southern Discomfort tinylittlelibrarian 2008
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My thoughts: While it wasn't an earth-shaker, this book was a good, quick read with a lot of Southern flavour.
Archive 2008-08-01 tinylittlelibrarian 2008
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I make no claims to be an earth-shaker in any capacity, nor to have chins wagging in Barnes & Noble stores all across the land.
From Tom Piccirilli Ed Gorman 2007
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I make no claims to be an earth-shaker in any capacity, nor to have chins wagging in Barnes & Noble stores all across the land.
Archive 2007-08-01 Ed Gorman 2007
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From that day forth Poseidon the earth-shaker doth not indeed slay Odysseus, but driveth him wandering from his own country.
Book I Homer 1909
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