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  • Hydra twinkled, remote and beautiful, from beyond the curving glass.†   (source)
  • If each State had an independent court of final jurisdiction over the same cases, arising out of the same laws, it would create a hydra in government.†   (source)
  • Even the mighty National Security Agency, America's omniscient signals intelligence service, was struggling to keep pace with ISI S's digital hydra.†   (source)
  • At this moment when our country is being bled white and is making a supreme effort to shake off the encircling hydra of the enemy, you have allowed yourselves to be fooled by a gang of nobodies, you have become a rabble, politically unconscious, surfeited with freedom, hooligans for whom nothing is enough.†   (source)
  • The Hydra's heads would only stop multiplying if we burned the stumps before they regrew.   (source)
    Hydra = Greek mythology:  a monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones
  • It was almost a good thing that he'd lost his sword, since his gut instinct would've been to slash at the heads, and a hydra simply grew two new ones for each one it lost.   (source)
    Hydra = a monster with many heads
  • He snatched up the hydra note and headed downstairs.†   (source)
  • He was on a quest with Hercules to kill the monstrous Hydra, an enormous serpent with nine heads.†   (source)
  • The Hydra stumbled backward, yanking its heads free then wailing in outrage at the fallen tree.†   (source)
  • But even Tyson couldn't fend off the Hydra forever.†   (source)
  • The spidery calligraphic handwriting was the same as the hydra note.†   (source)
  • Relief poured over him as he realized he wasn't in a swamp with the Hydra.†   (source)
  • Annabeth shouted, keeping her eyes on the Hydra.†   (source)
  • Now I was looking at an eight-headed Hydra.†   (source)
  • I ducked as the Hydra spat acid over my head.†   (source)
  • It was possible the Hydra might pass us by.†   (source)
  • Tyson charged in, putting himself between the Hydra and Annabeth.†   (source)
  • Perhaps you can defeat the Hydra, or steal the apples of Hesperides.†   (source)
  • One of the hydras had a tree sapling sprouting between its necks.†   (source)
  • All eight hydra heads loomed over him, ready to melt him into a pool of sludge.†   (source)
  • And thanks for showing up and, you know, saving my life from whatever that was— A Hydra demon.†   (source)
  • We hadn't bothered with the Itex plant in England, since it was just a single head of the hydra.†   (source)
  • No. The Lernaean Hydra, one of the labors of Heracles.†   (source)
  • That was just a Hydra demon, a sort of guard dog.†   (source)
  • The hydra spit acid, which was a mistake.†   (source)
  • Shall I unleash the hydra onto the Spanish Steps now?†   (source)
  • My guess at this point was no. Hydra, Hydra, I thought.†   (source)
  • The hydra barreled toward him, blocking his view of the giant.†   (source)
  • The hydra charged around the hamster wheel.†   (source)
  • Percy jumped up and grabbed the bottom of the hydra's cage.†   (source)
  • If Percy attacked the giant, the hydra would ravage the city.†   (source)
  • Like … the Minotaur and the Hydra?†   (source)
  • In the picture of me and Annabeth fighting the Hydra, it looked like a meteor had made a crater in my head.†   (source)
  • Then the hydra really would be dead.†   (source)
  • The poisonous Hydra breath!†   (source)
  • "Well, if it isn't the Hydra," Professor Douglas said, pulling his glasses halfway down the bridge of his nose.†   (source)
  • But there was no Hydra.†   (source)
  • Q: How do you kill a hydra?†   (source)
  • Hydra.†   (source)
  • Hydra.†   (source)
  • I sliced the Hydra's head clean off.†   (source)
  • The Hydra was only a few feet away.†   (source)
  • Now that we were in the Sea of Monsters, the water glittered a more brilliant green, like Hydra acid.†   (source)
  • One of the Hydra heads spat an arc of green liquid that shot past my shoulder and splashed against an elm.†   (source)
  • As soon as my glowing blade appeared, the Hydra whipped toward it with all its heads, hissing and baring its teeth.†   (source)
  • I'd seen a stuffed Hydra-head trophy at camp before, but that did nothing to prepare me for the real thing.†   (source)
  • I stuffed my few belongings that had survived the Hydra into a sailor's canvas knapsack and slung it over my shoulder.†   (source)
  • I didn't dare look away from the Hydra, but if that was who I thought it was behind us, I figured we now had enemies on two fronts.†   (source)
  • I ran my hand across a picture of Tyson, battling the Hydra as he held aloft a box of Monster Donuts.†   (source)
  • I tackled him with all my might, knocking him aside just as the Hydra lunged and the tree crashed on top of two of its heads.†   (source)
  • There was a flash of light, a column of smoke, and the Hydra exploded right in front of us, showering us with nasty green slime that vaporized as soon as it hit, the way monster guts tend to do.†   (source)
  • The Hydra followed.†   (source)
  • Or are they hydras?†   (source)
  • Just as he'd hoped, it was a hydra.†   (source)
  • She also kept a fight from breaking out between the children of Mars and the children of Ares over the best way to kill a hydra.†   (source)
  • It's called a hydra arrow," Frank said.†   (source)
  • Except for the hydra in her swamp and the baby dragon, the exotics—the unicorn, the herd of centaurs, and the gryphon family—lived on an island meadow surrounded by an extension of the castle moat.†   (source)
  • The walls were lined with metal shelves six stories high, decorated with war banners, painted shields, and the stuffed heads of dragons, hydras, giant lions, and wild boars.†   (source)
  • There were miniature lions, pigs, dragons, hydras, even a teeny Minotaur in a little Minotaur diaper.†   (source)
  • Hydra, I thought.†   (source)
  • Remember the Hydra, Max?†   (source)
  • The last time he'd faced a hydra, he'd been saved by a battleship with bronze cannons that blasted the monster to pieces.†   (source)
  • He rolled to one side as all eight hydra heads spit acid, turning the floor where he'd been standing into a steaming crater of melted stone.†   (source)
  • Suspended from the ceiling were cages of live animals—a lion, several zebras, a whole pack of hyenas, and even an eight-headed hydra.†   (source)
  • The hydra hissed and charged after him.†   (source)
  • The sword wasn't designed for that, but the Celestial bronze blade sliced through the chains suspending the hydra.†   (source)
  • The hydra vaporized instantly.†   (source)
  • The Wonder bread absorbed the acid like fire extinguisher foam and splattered against the hydra, covering it in a sticky, steaming laver of high-calorie poisonous goo.†   (source)
  • The hydra snapped at his hands.†   (source)
  • The hydra lashed out.†   (source)
  • Percy really hated hydras.†   (source)
  • For many-headed is this surrounding Hydra; one head cut off, two more appear—unless the right caustic is applied to the mutilated * Or, as James Joyce has phrased it: "equals of opposites, evolved by a one-same power of nature or of spirit, as the sole condition and means of irs himundher manifestation and polarised for reunion by the symphysis of their antipathies" (Joyce, Finnegans Wake, p. 92.†   (source)
  • He held up his hand and the hydra-headed address, with a few parting exclamations, died away.†   (source)
  • It seemed as if these viscous tentacles grew back like the many heads of Hydra.†   (source)
  • The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end.†   (source)
  • He sensed the growth of a relentless driving passion, and sometimes he feared that, more than the newly acquired zeal and pride in this ranger service, it was the old, terrible inherited killing instinct lifting its hydra-head in new guise.†   (source)
  • It was a tune in which the worst of men's natures stalked forth, hydra-headed and deaf, roaring for gold, spitting fire, and shedding blood.†   (source)
  • …article, in which it was maintained that it was quite senseless in our day to raise an outcry that radicalism was threatening to swallow up all conservative elements, and that the government ought to take measures to crush the revolutionary hydra; that, on the contrary, "in our opinion the danger lies not in that fantastic revolutionary hydra, but in the obstinacy of traditionalism clogging progress," etc., etc. He read another article, too, a financial one, which alluded to Bentham…†   (source)
  • He will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of this murderer and villain!†   (source)
  • The hydra of the Romancero and some other hybrid forms, the Vedas and the Nibelungen bristle further on.†   (source)
  • A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses like the scales on the hydra.†   (source)
  • They have no friend Iolaus to burn with a hot iron the root of the hydra's head, but as soon as one head is crushed, two spring up.†   (source)
  • This meadow was celebrated by reason of the brawls which went on there night and day; it was the hydra of the poor monks of Saint-Germain: ~quod mouachis Sancti-Germaini pratensis hydra fuit, clericis nova semper dissidiorum capita suscitantibus~.†   (source)
  • As for zoophytes, for a few moments I was able to marvel at a wonderful, orange–hued hydra from the genus Galeolaria that clung to the glass of our port panel; it consisted of a long, lean filament that spread out into countless branches and ended in the most delicate lace ever spun by the followers of Arachne.†   (source)
  • This hydra of towers, giant guardian of Paris, with its four and twenty heads, always erect, with its monstrous haunches, loaded or scaled with slates, and all streaming with metallic reflections, terminated with wonderful effect the configuration of the Town towards the west.†   (source)
  • It was an immense forest, huge mineral vegetation, enormous petrified trees linked by garlands of elegant hydras from the genus Plumularia, those tropical creepers of the sea, all decked out in shades and gleams.†   (source)
  • It was clear that the hydra of anarchy had emerged from its box and that it was stalking abroad through the quarter.†   (source)
  • He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts wallowed on the earth and soared, now like the hydra, now like the eagle.†   (source)
  • One gazes at the surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra which crawls on the bottom.†   (source)
  • We have vanquished the hydra, and it is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon.†   (source)
  • Formerly, the first human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, breathing on the waters, the dragon which vomited flame, the griffin who was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and the talons of a tiger; fearful beasts which were above man.†   (source)
  • On the day when this Promethean task shall be accomplished, and when man shall have definitely harnessed to his will the triple Chimaera of antiquity, the hydra, the dragon and the griffin, he will be the master of water, fire, and of air, and he will be for the rest of animated creation that which the ancient gods formerly were to him.†   (source)
  • One thinks one hears hydras talking.†   (source)
  • There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in Dante.†   (source)
  • …should be enticed, that the system of spying, and serving as caryatids to prostitution should amuse the rabble when it confronts them, that the crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there would be no festival for the populace, did not the police promenade in their midst these sorts of twenty-headed hydras of joy.†   (source)
  • Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all.†   (source)
  • More formidable Hydra stands within, Whose jaws with iron teeth severely grin.†   (source)
  • It is a contention with Ambition, like that of Hercules with the Monster Hydra, which having many heads, for every one that was vanquished, there grew up three.†   (source)
  • Thirteen independent courts of final jurisdiction over the same causes, arising upon the same laws, is a hydra in government, from which nothing but contradiction and confusion can proceed.†   (source)
  • Another king! they grow like Hydra's heads: I am the Douglas, fatal to all those That wear those colours on them.†   (source)
  • And more he said, but I hold it not in mind because my eye had wholly attracted me toward the high tower with the ruddy summit, where in an instant were uprisen suddenly three infernal furies, stained with blood, who had the limbs of women and their action, and were girt with greenest hydras.†   (source)
  • Through many a dark and dreary vale They passed, and many a region dolorous, O'er many a frozen, many a fiery alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death— A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good; Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Obominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.†   (source)
  • I sent your grace The parcels and particulars of our grief, The which hath been with scorn shoved from the court, Whereon this Hydra son of war is born; Whose dangerous eyes may well be charm'd asleep With grant of our most just and right desires, And true obedience, of this madness cured, Stoop tamely to the foot of majesty.†   (source)
  • Before the passage, horrid Hydra stands, And Briareus with all his hundred hands; Gorgons, Geryon with his triple frame; And vain Chimaera vomits empty flame.†   (source)
  • In reading many of the publications against the Constitution, a man is apt to imagine that he is perusing some ill-written tale or romance, which instead of natural and agreeable images, exhibits to the mind nothing but frightful and distorted shapes "Gorgons, hydras, and chimeras dire"; discoloring and disfiguring whatever it represents, and transforming everything it touches into a monster.†   (source)
  • Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field; His father's hydra fills his ample shield: A hundred serpents hiss about the brims; The son of Hercules he justly seems By his broad shoulders and gigantic limbs; Of heav'nly part, and part of earthly blood, A mortal woman mixing with a god.†   (source)
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