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Greek mythology: one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead

In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus outsmarts a Cyclops who intends to eat Odysseus and some of his men.

In Greek mythology, the Cyclops were a race of giants.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Seen through the plastic her eye was huge and wavering, the eye of a Cyclops.
Stephen King -- Misery
Some were like the entertainers GaoLing and I had seen on Beggars Lane—girls without legs or arms, a cyclops, a dwarf.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
We may say of it as of the blind cyclops, Ingens.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
As the giant got close, a Cyclops woman broke ranks and ran back to speak with him.
Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
"The Cyclops," Reyna remembered.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
GEORGE: All I said was, our son .... the apple of our three eyes, Martha being a Cyclops .... our son is a beanbag, and you get testy.
Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
I wasn't a member of Odysseus's crew, but I'm certain the Cyclops is a myth.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
We're on an Indonesian island, in a mountain called Cyclops.
Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
Ever after his father calls him Cyclops, who is in a Greek story.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
"At least Tyson brought some of his Cyclops friends to help out," Rachel said.
Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
He was surrounded in fire, which would've been a problem if he weren't a Cyclops.
Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse
"Cyclops," Annabeth offered.
Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
That's a Cyclops ability, Leo.
Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero
"That devil of a hunchbacked cyclops!" he muttered between his teeth; and he tried to rise.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
It took Eleanor a couple weeks to figure out that Scott Summcrs and Cyclops were the same guy, and she still wasn't sure what was up with Phoenix.
Rainbow Rowell -- Eleanor & Park
I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard—I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with.
John Green -- Looking for Alaska
To birds on the wing its glassy surface, reflecting the light sky, must have been visible for miles around as a glistening Cyclops' eye in a green face.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
If you've never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and rubber cleaning gloves, I'm telling you, it'll wake you up quick.
Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth

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