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The land and its colours, moods, and furies possess the people of Charleville in South West Queensland.
This allegro is remarkable for its parody of a movement from Gluck's ballet Don Juan, better known as the Danse des furies from his opera Orphée.
View the video of the day filmed on the boat by Marco and follow his single-handed race through the furies of the North Atlantic.
The Mediterranean can be dangerous and does not always give a warning of its coming furies.
Terrible furies that used to be beautiful young women and now ruin everything they touch.
Yet, in private conversation, he is relaxed, cheerful and shows no sign of being pursued by either fates or furies.
To take a really strong stand against those furies-the furies that destroyed the old Republican Party-just wouldn't be prudent.
The role of the Soon Baa was, first and foremost, to calm the anger of humans and the furies of nature.
There is bound to be a lot of upwind sailing ahead during these very demanding two weeks sailing across the furies of the North Atlantic.
Naturally, the music feels the effects of it, in a waltz where furies make some hand-to-hand fight with sweetness, where we enjoy ourselves with despair.
We get long, dun patches of inaction, interspersed with startling shows of force, in which men — and it is almost always men — belch forth uncontainable furies.
The yangqin is part of the long line of hammered siring instruments that began ten furies ago in Iran with the santur.
There are more furies screaming, Hesperides feeding serpents, a phoenix, a centaur, Adam and Eve, Hercules, two androgynous figures slaying a dragon, Mars carrying off Venus attended by Cupid.
Now, however, the focus is not on invincibility or greatness, but on the perhaps more elusive goal of keeping his furies at bay and trying to master his unrulier impulses rather than letting them control him.
Our instincts as human beings urge us to run away from danger, and we are taught from infancy to avoid deep or moving waters, dark and airless places and the furies of storm or fire.
From the start, the furies of the Bay of Biscay were to have their say.
Immediately after this, the avenging goddesses called Furies torment Orestes to the point of insanity.
The Furies is not a Western where men in white hats face off men in black hats on the town square at noon.
He is pursued by the Furies, grotesque female divinities charged with the punishment of those who have shed the blood of kinfolk.
When Indra slays Vrita, Brahmahatya, a terrible retributive apparition, like the Erinyes or Furies of Greek myth, pursues him.
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Until the furies got hold of him he was a simple soul, content with simple things.
And first he bellowed as a bull and then howled as a dog, for the furies, he said, did so.
Here, in lower latitude, the rocks appear rather scorched by a torrid sun than lashed by winter rain and hibernal furies.
Elisha may have shrunk from the unreined furies of the man whom he had sent his emissary to anoint.
And their asylums would have been not for weak-minded souls, but for furies.
A case in point is Orestes pursued by the furies, as described by the poets.
He could only be kept from furies dangerous to himself by being given his own way in every detail.
And when he had been judged and loosed, yet the furies left him not.
I can think of many parts I should prefer playing to that of the furies.
So it is that the furies help Orestes to wreak vengeance on his mother, Clytaemnestra, for killing his father, Agamemnon.
I felt ready to smile bitterly at its enchanting charm and glare viciously at its furies.
He looked as if he had known all the degradations and all the furies.
The Fates and the furies exchanged glances of astonishment and horror.
The furies were so dreaded that few dared so much as to name them.
Indeed, it seemed as though all the furies had combined to vex me.
And the sea was quiet as she was, repentant surely of its former furies.
The blacke infernall Furies, the erinyes, or goddesses of vengeance, who dwelt in Erebus.
Yet for all this, his art is weaker far than Necessity, whereof the controllers are Fate and the unforgetting Furies.
In his theatric way he used to tell his intimates that he was haunted by all the Furies.
In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold.
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