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Definition of Gryphons
1. gryphon [n] - See also: gryphon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gryphons
Literary usage of Gryphons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Visitation of Shropshire, Taken in the Year 1623 by Robert Treswell, Augustine Vincent, William Camden, George Grazebrook, John Paul Rylands, College of Arms (Great Britain) (1889)
"Arms: Gules, a chevron argent between [three] gryphons' or wolves' heads erased or.
Edward Hall of Northall son & heire. William Hall 2 son. ..."
2. Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus by Claude Delaval Cobham (1908)
"These gryphons are most fierce creatures, with the heads of eagles and the bodies
of lions, they fly like the one and run like the other, and have such ..."
3. Ancient India as Described by Ptolemy: Being a Translation of the Chapters by John Watson McCrindle (1885)
"On the Griffins or gryphons—(p. 295). Professor Ball in a paper published in the
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 2nd Ser., Vol. II. No. C, pp. ..."
4. Illustrations of School Classics by George Francis Hill (1903)
"The legends about the gold- guarding gryphons were evidently connected with ...
In this picture the gryphons correspond (except in colouring) to Ctesias' ..."
5. The Sculptures of the Parthenon by Alexander Stuart Murray (1903)
"Apparently he had thought that the gryphons had been introduced on the helmet with
... Anyhow the statuette shows us winged horses or Pegasi, not gryphons, ..."
6. Ancient India as Described by Ktesias the Knidian: Being a Translation of by Ctesias, Photius, John Watson McCrindle (1882)
"The gryphons, then, being so formidable, the natives of these countries go not
to gather gold in the day time, but set ont under cover of night when they ..."
7. Mythology & Monuments of Ancient Athens: Being a Translation of a Portion of by Pausanias, Jane Ellen Harrison, Margaret de Gaudrion Merrifield Verrall (1890)
"24, 6. gryphons wrought upon it. The gryphons, according to ... Enough of the
gryphons. The image of Athena stands upright, clad in the long chiton, ..."
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