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Definition of Harpies
1. harpy [n] - See also: harpy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harpies
Literary usage of Harpies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1859)
"The harpies ministered to the gods as the executors of vengeance. ... The most
celebrated myth in which the harpies figure is that of the blind Phineus, ..."
2. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities by Shearjashub Spooner (1865)
"CURIOUS REPRESENTATIONS OF THE harpies. Homer represents the harpies as the
rapacious goddesses of the storms, residing near the Erinnyes, or the Ocean, ..."
3. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1916)
"harpies. — The hated and destructive squalls that burst suddenly from the mountain
valleys on the coastal shipping were well described in the appearance and ..."
4. The Age of Fable; Or, Beauties of Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, John Loughran Scott (1898)
"Our readers will remember that in the conflict with the harpies, one of those
half-human birds had threatened the Trojans with dire sufferings. ..."
5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The harpies ministered to the gods as the executors of vengeance. ... The most
celebrated myth in which the harpies figure is that of the blind Phineus, ..."
6. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"harpies.—The hated and destructive squalls that burst suddenly from the mountain
valleys on the coastal shipping were well described in the appearance and ..."
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