Worlds which had trembled for a moment in their orbits now steadied, and in one of those worlds, in a desert that was the apotheosis of all deserts, a man named Roland turned over in his bedroll and slept easily once again beneath the alien constellations.
Stephen King
Insomnia
The American Ambassador also plans to throw a wreath into the sea.” So I decided, tentatively, that I would have Frank announce my apotheosis immediately following the wreath ceremony and the air show.
Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle
He was a man completely in control, and Larry suddenly knew this was his watershed moment, the apotheosis of his life.
King, Stephen
The Stand
Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing—straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Maester Thomax’s Dragonkin, Being a History of House Targaryen from Exile to Apotheosis, with a Consideration of the Life and Death of Dragons had not been so fortunate.
George R. R. Martin
A Feast for Crows
They laugh and hunt, and there is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis—what a transfiguration effected by love!
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
"Galen appears uncertain whether Asklepius (as well as Dionysus) was originally a god, or whether he was first a man and then became afterwards a god; but Apollodorus professed to fix the exact date of his apotheosis.
Homer
The Iliad
To him she stood outside those fleshly attributes from which he had nothing to obtain, and in his heart she rose ever, and became farther removed from him after the magnificent manner of an apotheosis that is taking wing.
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary