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  • After all, the head detainee is played by Laura Innes, who did not look 100% earth-born on "E.R." either.

    Leave the Lights On, Please 2010

  • Unfortunately, wine and the nameless earth-born substance turned into shots of cheap rum and never-ending beers.

    UNHINGED || Movie Review: Taking Woodstock and the Fall of Babylon 2009

  • In yonder lair, where the earth-born dragon kept watch and ward o'er

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • What furious rage the earth-born race displays, even Pentheus sprung of a dragon of old, himself the son of earth-born Echion, a savage monster in his very mien, not made in human mould, but like some murderous giant pitted against heaven; for he means to bind me, the handmaid of

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • O'er the waters of Ismenus in wild career thou art urging thy horses, inspiring Argive breasts with hate of the earth-born race, arraying in brazen harness against these stone-built walls a host of warriors armed with shields.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • At Electra's gate famed Capaneus brought up his company, bold as Ares for the fray; this device his buckler bore upon its iron back, an earth-born giant carrying on his shoulders a whole city which he had wrenched from its base, hint to us of the fate in store for Thebes.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • O house, so prosperous once through Hellas long ago, home of the old Sidonian prince, who sowed the serpent's crop of earth-born men, how do I mourn thee! slave though I be, yet still the sorrows of his master touch a good slave's heart.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • Dirce's springs, must this youth be offered and shed his life-blood on the ground by reason of Ares 'ancient grudge against Cadmus, who thus avenges the slaughter of his earth-born snake.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • Hast thou no reverence, sir stranger, for the gods or for Cadmus who sowed the crop of earth-born warriors?

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • Ah! how proud and terrible his mien! like to an earth-born giant he moves, with stars engraved upon his targe, resembling not a child of earth.

    The Phoenissae 2008

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