Only once in an eon or so is it vouchsafed a writer to write a masterpiece at the age of nine years. |
The cases of Tanchelm and eon are no doubt cases of simple religious mania. |
And in an eon of lying they never have run up against a short-circuit like that. |
Less formally, eon often refers to a span of one billion years. |
If one might only live an eon or two he might then well complain of the changing climate. |
For truly, in the science of aviation a day is a generation, and three months an eon. |