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How to use harpies in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word harpies? Here are some examples.

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In keeping with the theme of the game, many are drawn from mythology, such as harpies, Minotaurs, skeletal centaurs, satyrs et al.
I simply will not tolerate this injustice on their behalf, yet do you see queues of harpies slapping me on the back and congratulating me?
In the old Greek stories harpies were agents of divine retribution unleashed on those who victimized others by violence.
Clearly he has himself down as a bit of a Lothario and us as a couple of gold-digging harpies.
She sat there and took it like some kind of valkyrie or virago, perhaps the harpies of ancient myth.
It bears a sculpture of the three Marys before the empty tomb of Christ, and soldiers, knights and a  centaur shooting arrows at two harpies.
Deep dish with a depiction of two facing harpies perched on bushes filled out with scales and flanked by bunches of plum blossom.
And my grandfathers were brilliant, they sat back and tolerated those two harpies, I don't know how.
The Greek mythology drawing tutoriel harpie face one has been added to the how to draw harpies page.
Hedge funds now hover like harpies over any economy that is described as weak ready to devour and befoul any area they can get their talons on.
They'd be called out as wittering harpies – or, worse, ignored.
When one of these harpies becomes trapped, they get a good hiding, thrashing or beating because poor people, they do not yet know how to return good for evil.
Two harpies opposite one another are perched on bushes filled with scales, and flanked by boughs of plum-tree flowers which form the decoration of the central field inscribed inside a medallion.
It is not at all strange that these harpies having entered the unknown dimension with their physical bodies, can levitate and travel within seconds to any place in the world.
Examples from Classical Literature
Blair, an Englishman, finds fault with the picture of the harpies in Virgil.
A moment or two afterwards the harpies had been upon him, and then he had gone off in his anger.
So are the harpies, and Medusa, and the Fates who measure and cut and spin.
So the harpies were justified, so far as this one phenomenon was concerned.
Charles in the afternoon, but the harpies of the law looked in vain for their expected prey.
At present nobody can save her from the hands of these harpies.
What boys, then, owed money to these harpies as well as Ernest?
Some said that the harpies had the faces and forms of women.
And all the time, as we were pitching it in red hot, we were keeping the women off him as best we could for they were as wild as harpies.
Can anything be so bad as the living bush which bleeds and talks, or the Harpies who befoul Aeneas's dinner?
Harpies of this ilk are the bane of sight-seeing all the world over.
We all sat in amazed silence round the fire, like the heroes of Virgil when the Harpies came down upon them.
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