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Definition of Golems
1. golem [n] - See also: golem
Lexicographical Neighbors of Golems
Literary usage of Golems
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"Davey dangled by his armpits in the implacable hands of one of the golems, face
contorted into unrecognizability ..."
2. Germany by Heinrich Heine, Charles Godfrey Leland (1906)
"Germany is a far better country for old witches, golems of both sexes, and
specially for field-marshals, like little Cornelius Nepos. ..."
3. The Romantic School: By Heinrich Heine. Tr. by S. L. Fleishman by Heinrich Heine (1882)
"V , Let the Germans keep all the horrors of madness, Ix delirium, and the spectre
world. Germany is a ' better soil for old witches, dead bear-skins, golems ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1802)
"... migrated from Spo- 'sj Alexander 111. had declared the golems who adhered to
the emperor Frederic I. incapable of holding any ..."
5. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb by Maurice Henry Hewlett, Laurence Binyon, Edward James Hewlett, William Randolph Hearst, Jonathan Swift, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Edward Verrall Lucas, Frederick Madison Smith, Mariano Tomás (1905)
"There were several golems'. John Colerus of Amsterdam wrote a Life of Spinoza.
Lamb may have meant this. John Colerus of Berlin invented a perpetual ..."
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