¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hippogriffs
1. hippogriff [n] - See also: hippogriff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hippogriffs
Literary usage of Hippogriffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"The cavalry is on both wings; left wing, behind that Moldau Chasm, cannot attack
nor be attacked,—except it were on hippogriffs, and its enemy on the like, ..."
2. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"The cavalry is on both wings; left wing, behind that Moldau Chasm, cannot attack
nor be attacked,—except it were on hippogriffs, and its enemy on the like, ..."
3. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"The cavalry is on both wings; left wing, behind that Moldau Chasm, cannot attack
nor be attacked, — except it were 011 hippogriffs, and its enemy on the ..."
4. The Christian Examiner (1846)
"To this reasoning Mill might object, that men conceived of hippogriffs and
centaurs, why not of power, ... But hippogriffs are combinations, not creations. ..."
5. Table-Talk by Amos Bronson Alcott (1877)
"hippogriffs. "T is the age of Tubal Cain and the giants. ... Man is striving
through these iron-ribbed, steam-sped hippogriffs, to recover his lost ubiquity ..."
6. The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany by Alvan Lamson, Ezra Stiles Gannett, George Putnam, George Edward Ellis (1846)
"To this reasoning Mill might object, that men conceived of hippogriffs and
centaurs, why not of power, ... But hippogriffs are combinations, not creations. ..."
Other Resources:
