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Definition of Gorgons
1. gorgon [n] - See also: gorgon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gorgons
Literary usage of Gorgons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Age of Fable; Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch (1856)
"The gorgons were monstrous females with huge teeth like those of swine, brazen
claws, and snaky hair. None of these beings make much figure in mythology ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"... not only by foreigners, but by many of our own critics, as a gloomy and heavy
writer, who painted nothing but "gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire. ..."
3. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"Virgil places the gorgons with harpies and other monsters at Pluto's palace gate.
GORILLA, the largest of the anthropoid apes, a native of the equatorial ..."
4. The History of Ancient Art by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Giles Henry Lodge (1872)
"The gorgons, the last named of the inferior goddesses, are, with the exception
of the head of Medusa, not represented on any antique work. ..."
5. The Cruise of the Betsey: Or, a Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous by Hugh Miller, William Samuel Symonds (1858)
"... Stewart's wonder at the Bones in the Stones—Description of the Bones — "
Dragons, gorgons, and Chimeras" —Exploration and Discovery pursued — The Midway ..."
6. The Bottom of the Sea by Léon Sonrel (1875)
"gorgons of the old writers—Their animal nature discovered by ... The gorgons, so
named by Pliny, were originally taken, ..."
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