Cerberusin a sentence
- Cerberus and Scylla?† (source)
- The three-headed dog, Cerberus, who was supposed to guard Hades's door, was nowhere to be seen.† (source)
- No entry is possible without two things: one must pass by Cerberus, the three-headed dog who stands guard, and one must have the admission ticket (Aeneas's Golden Bough).† (source)
- Three joints were going, passing through the inner dark like the lambent eyes of some rotating Cerberus.† (source)
- I will be your Cerberus for the night.† (source)
- In the Harry Potter series, there is a Cerberus-like three-headed dog.
- I thought I was dead and Cerberus had found me at the gates of the Underworld.† (source)
- Cerberus panted expectantly, the tiny red ball in pieces in a puddle of drool at its feet.† (source)
- I'd always imagined Cerberus as a big black mastiff.† (source)
- I didn't need to speak dog to know Cerberus was still waiting for the ball.† (source)
- Cerberus wasn't any less scary-looking from the back.† (source)
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- "And it wouldn't hurt to play with Cerberus once in a while.† (source)
- Cerberus was now making a new kind of growl, deeper down in his three throats.† (source)
- Cerberus whimpered, but he stayed where he was.† (source)
- Cerberus's heads stopped fighting and looked at her.† (source)
- The giant three-headed dog Cerberus growled in the gloom, but he let them pass.† (source)
- Cerberus barked, but he sounded more excited than angry, like: Can I play too?† (source)
- I had to whistle for Mrs. O'Leary three times before she left Cerberus alone and ran after us.† (source)
- The sides of the thermos were enameled with red and yellow Ancient Greek scenes-a hero killing a lion; a hero lifting up Cerberus, the three-headed dog.† (source)
- It was labeled WATERLAND, DENVER, CO. Before I could stop her, she raised the ball and marched straight up to Cerberus.† (source)
- She held up the tattered red ball, and probably came to the same conclusion I did-if she rewarded Cerberus, there'd be nothing left for another trick.† (source)
- Cerberus glared at me, unimpressed.† (source)
- Cerberus looked as stunned as we were.† (source)
- I held it up, and tried to channel happy dog thoughts toward Cerberus-Alpo commercials, cute little puppies, fire hydrants.† (source)
- We were about to bolt through the EZ DEATH line when Cerberus moaned pitifully from all three mouths.† (source)
- I had Cerberus's undivided attention.† (source)
- I pretended not to see Annabeth wipe a tear from her cheek as she listened to the mournful keening of Cerberus in the distance, longing for his new friend.† (source)
- I remembered Grover dive-bombing Medusa in the statue garden, and Annabeth saving us from Cerberus; we'd survived Hephaestus's Waterland ride, the St. Louis Arch, the Lotus Casino.† (source)
- But instead, Cerberus licked his three sets of lips, shifted on his haunches, and sat, immediately crushing a dozen spirits who'd been passing underneath him in the EZ DEATH line.† (source)
- Cerberus started to growl.† (source)
- You want the ball, Cerberus?† (source)
- She threw Cerberus the ball.† (source)
- Cerberus started to bark.† (source)
- Cerberus?† (source)
- Cerberus, the guard dog of Hades, appeared out of the gloom—a three-headed rottweiler so big he made Mrs. O'Leary look like a toy poodle.† (source)
- Cerberus was half transparent, so he's really hard to see until he's close enough to kill you, but he acted like he didn't care about us.† (source)
- For an instant Scarlett envisaged her trip to Atlanta and her conversation with Rhett with Mammy glowering chaperonage like a large black Cerberus in the background.† (source)
- Dost bay with two throats, Cerberus?† (source)
- But a high tower told her how to go down to the world below, gave her coins for Charon and sops for Cerberus, and sped her on her way.† (source)
- Aeneas went down into the underworld, crossed the dreadful river of the dead, threw a sop to the three-headed watchdog Cerberus, and conversed, at last, with the shade of his dead father.† (source)
- Cerberus did not bite at the honey cake.† (source)
- He must be one of the monsters who are said to be growing up in Rome—Apollos ravenous as Cerberus.† (source)
- It must have been deserted by its usual Cerberus, for Mme. Giry entered without ceremony, holding a letter in her hand, and said hurriedly: "I beg your pardon, excuse me, gentlemen, but I had a letter this morning from the Opera ghost.† (source)
- For my own part, I was never so effectually deterred from frequenting a man's house, by any kind of Cerberus whatever, as by the parade one made about dining me, which I took to be a very polite and roundabout hint never to trouble him so again.† (source)
- Perceiving the necessity of doing something to disarm this female Cerberus, before his own purpose could be accomplished, the Doctor, reluctant as he was to encounter her tongue, found himself compelled to invite a colloquial communication.† (source)
- Your Cerberus, if ye remember well, still bears his chin and his throat peeled for that.† (source)
- No sooner landed, in his den they found The triple porter of the Stygian sound, Grim Cerberus, who soon began to rear His crested snakes, and arm'd his bristling hair.† (source)
- Shall packhorses And hollow pamper'd jades of Asia, Which cannot go but thirty mile a-day, Compare with Caesars, and with Cannibals, And Trojan Greeks? nay, rather damn them with King Cerberus; and let the welkin roar.† (source)
- Cerberus, a beast cruel and monstrous, with three throats barks doglike above the people that are here submerged.† (source)
- 'Great Hercules is presented by this imp, Whose club kill'd Cerberus, that three-headed canis; And when he was a babe, a child, a shrimp, Thus did he strangle serpents in his manus.† (source)
- The porter in his lodge answers exactly to Cerberus in his den, and, like him, must be appeased by a sop before access can be gained to his master.† (source)
- Jones, in like manner, now began to offer a bribe to the human Cerberus, which a footman, overhearing, instantly advanced, and declared, "if Mr Jones would give him the sum proposed, he would conduct him to the lady."† (source)
- When Cerberus, the great worm, observed us he opened his mouths, and showed his fangs to us; not a limb had he that he kept quiet.† (source)
- As the dog that barking craves, and becomes quiet when he bites his food, and is intent and fights only to devour it, such became those filthy faces of the demon Cerberus, who so thunders at the souls that they would fain be deaf.† (source)
- —Cerberus.† (source)
- —Cerberus.† (source)
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