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mythological Roman hero famous for his strength and for performing 12 immense labors to gain immortality- Heracles is the Greek mythological equivalent of the Roman Hercules.
Hercules = mythological Roman hero famous for his strength and for performing 12 immense labors to gain immortality
- We lent to Alexander the strength of Hercules, The wisdom of our foreheads, the cunning of our knees; We bowed our necks to service:Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book
- Great Hercules is presentedWilliam Shakespeare -- Love's Labour's Lost
- I was pretty sure Hercules had fought this thing once, but I couldn't remember how he'd beaten it.Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse
- Do you know the legend of Hercules and Antaeus, the giant wrestler, whose strength was incredible so long as he stood firmly on the earth.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- "That's Hercules," I said.Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
- But when he was held, rootless, in mid-air, by Hercules, he perished easily.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- It would be a labour of Hercules, far beyond me.Eugene Ionesco -- Rhinoceros
- Go where the sunset reddens the last grey rock Of Brittany, or the Gates of Hercules.T.S. Eliot -- Murder in the Cathedral
- But the task was more nearly like the labors of Hercules, a succession of varied obstacles.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- " "You only did half the labors of Hercules in the last twenty-four hours," said Taleswapper.Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
- We'll none of that: that have I told my love, In glory of my kinsman Hercules.William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- The guard, the father and one or two small children began the herculean job of waking Dad.Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- His barbecue obsession began at age sixteen with a trip to Hercules Chicken and Ribs in his hometown of Rochester, New York.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
- Well-there you are-Hercules the strong.Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
- He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking them he is stronger than Hercules.William Shakespeare -- All's Well That Ends Well
- It's in the Hercules Cluster.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- I have the wives of Hercules, etc., etc., down pat.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- So rose the Danite strong, Herculean Samson, from the harlot-lap Of Philistean Dalilah, and waked Shorn of his strength.John Milton -- Paradise Lost
- Before he mucked out the Augean stables, Hercules probably carved them in half in his mind, too.Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
Hercules = mythological Roman hero famous for his strength
Hercules = Roman mythology: hero famous for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality
Hercules = mythological Roman hero famous for his strength and for performing 12 immense labors to gain immortality
Hercules = mythological Roman hero famous for his strength and for performing 12 immense labors to gain immortality
Hercules = mythological Roman hero famous for his strength and for performing 12 immense labors to gain immortality
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