We phantoms are and dreams Born by tartarean streams, As ministers of the infernal powers; O son of Erebus And Night, behold!
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3. Black tartarean, purplish.
"Soil Culture"
J. H. Walden
Lance stood open-mouthed before a namesake of his own, whose huge monumental slab was upborne by the exertions of a kind of tartarean cherub, solely consisting of a skull and a pair of bats' wings!
"The Pillars of the House, V1"
Charlotte M. Yonge