underworld
അധോലോക
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It is suggested that an underworld crime figure planned to grab the mother and her child and to demand a six figure sum.
the world of criminals or of organized crime.
To gain entrance to this forbidden domain she threatened to break down the gates of the underworld , free the dead and devour the living.
the mythical abode of the dead, imagined as being under the earth.
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During the last six millennia, the hero's journey to the 'underworld' of the dead has been a main part of epic storylines.
a prominent 'underworld' figure
I am a living breathing hormonal teenage girl though I would much rather prefer to be a living dead goddess of the 'underworld' with no emotions at all.
The newspaper understands he was believed to be involved in hits and suspected of supplying ammunition and possibly firearms to the criminal 'underworld' .
The spirit assumes the appearance of a dead man and goes down to the 'underworld' .
Like Orpheus bringing Eurydice out of the 'underworld' , it seems the novelist cannot look directly at love without losing it.
The concept of the dead travelling through the 'underworld' in a boat is regularly depicted in the Valley of the Kings and the tombs of the Pharaohs.
Kidnapping, now seen as a dying business in the criminal 'underworld' , had its heyday in the 1980s when some of the country's richest businessmen were the subject of ransom demands.
Persephone was forced to live a dual life in both the 'underworld' and earth after eating the pomegranate seeds given to her by Hades.
It is suggested that an 'underworld' crime figure planned to grab the mother and her child and to demand a six figure sum.
She also guides Persephone to the 'underworld' and back twice a year and thus has a part to play in the seasons.
The violent, bloodthirsty gang who are holding him are notorious throughout the criminal 'underworld' .
The last of the Titans, Typhon was the son of the earth and the 'underworld' .
Gardaí have repeatedly raised concerns at the poor security measures taken by many legal gun owners and the extent to which these firearms end up in the criminal 'underworld' , to be used in shootings and murders.
Pluto is the mythological ruler of the 'underworld' , the keeper of dark secrets.
Mr Williams praised the Gardaí but vowed not to be intimidated by those in the criminal 'underworld' who he has been exposing for more than a decade.
Pluto, or Hades, rules the 'underworld' but even he was taken by the power of love and lust, for Proserpina.
In the famous sixth book of the Aeneid, Aeneas travels to the 'underworld' in search of his father, Anchises.
Orpheus retrieves Eurydice from the 'underworld' on the condition that he not look back at her shadow until both have emerged from the vale of Avernus.
In the myth she was abducted by the God of the 'underworld' , Pluto, and stolen away to his kingdom of Hades.
When Aeneas travels to the 'underworld' , as most heroes do, he is accompanied by Sibyl, his guide sent by Apollo.
And I will be more powerful than any other on the face of the earth or in the 'underworld' .
Last year, the unit seized more than 200 illegal guns and more than 3,500 rounds of assorted ammunition, which are in demand in the criminal 'underworld' .
The book, which deals with the criminal 'underworld' , will be published next year, and has been described as a ‘thrilling literary debut’.
I like doing freelance work for the criminal 'underworld' .
In the myth of the Orpheus / Eurydice saga, Orpheus was given a dispensation by Pluto to return his wife from the 'underworld' (she had been bitten by a poisonous serpent and died).
Alice asked, craving more answers from this plethora of magical knowledge Clay seemed to possess about the 'underworld' and earth.
In the city, corruption runs rampant, from the government offices to the gangland hangouts of 'underworld' figures.
They have run the biggest drug businesses, which have been going for a long time, very successfully, in the criminal 'underworld' .
Both were mighty queens in the 'underworld' where they cast light upon the dead in their darkness.
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