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Linus

1

[ lahy-nuhs ]

noun

  1. Saint, died a.d. 76?, pope 67?–76?.


Linus

2

[ lahy-nuhs ]

noun

  1. Classical Mythology.
    1. a musician and poet, the inventor of melody and rhythm, of whom various stories are told: often identified, through his untimely death, with the harvesting or withering of crops and vegetation.
    2. Also called Linus song. a dirge: originally sung in western Asia to mourn the death of crops being harvested, later sung to mourn the death of Linus or that of Adonis.
  2. a male given name.

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After Linus tells Harrison that he’s moving to a different state at the end of the week, Harrison plans a grand-send off that’s packed with adventure.

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Reagan wrote that Linus’ question “touched a nerve” and “continues to haunt me in a very nice way” because it made him think back to the “soul-searching” he did while deciding whether or not to sign California’s bill.

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“Guns are almost like Linus’s security blanket,” Dowd-Arrow said.

Of course, all of the things that Linus warned us about back in 1965 have only compounded in the intervening decades.

For example, no one could have predicted the reaction to Michael Emerson's Benjamin Linus.

Now he had paused at the small table by the window, where Polly was waiting to carry some medicine to Linus Hardy.

But the most glorious festival was that when they celebrated the marriage of Linus, the king's son, with his sweet foster-sister.

The obvious inference is, that, at the time when this letter was written, Linus was not yet in any position of authority.

Thou rememberest the incident at the pond of Agrippa about which I told thee at the house of Linus on the eve of my departure.

Then both entered the house of Linus, accompanied by the thunder of lions, growing louder and louder.

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