Usage examples:
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He
puts
forward
with
almost
repulsive
abruptness
the
paradoxes
which
the
Christian
must
believe:
he
declares
it
an
Icarian
flight
to
wish
to
penetrate
these
secrets:
but
so
much
stronger
is
the
impulse
he
seeks
to
give
the
human
mind
in
the
direction
of
enquiry
into
natural
objects.
Leopold von Ranke in "A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)".
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On
the
ninth
day
of
our
march
from
the
shores
of
the
Tanganika
we
again
perceived
our "
Magdala
Mount,"
rising
like
a
dark
cloud
to
the
north-
east,
by
which
I
knew
that
we
were
approaching
Imrera,
and
that
our
Icarian
attempt
to
cross
the
uninhabited
jungle
of
Ukawendi
would
soon
be
crowned
with
success.
Sir Henry M. Stanley in "How I Found Livingstone".
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Owenites,
Fourierists,
Icarians
have
all
established
communities
there,
but
these
communities
have
failed
long
ago,
except
one
of
the
Icarian
and
the
only
other
socialist
experiments
now
existing
in
America
are
seventy
or
eighty
religious
communities,
Shakers
and
Rappists,
whose
success
has
been
due
to
their
religious
discipline
and
their
celibacy,
and
whose
members
amount
to
no
more
than
5,
000
souls
all
told.
John Rae in "Contemporary Socialism".
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I
gave
his
mate
a
goodly
spiral-
shell:
We
stalked
its
inmate
on
the
Icarian
rocks
And
ate
him,
parted
fivefold
among
five.
Theocritus in "Theocritus".