All 11 Uses
talon
in
Dante's Inferno -- translated by Cary
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- of thee this also would I learn;
This fortune, that thou speak'st of, what it is,
Whose talons grasp the blessings of the world?†Canto 1.1-11 *talons = sharp hooked claws - Broad are their pennons, of the human form
Their neck and count'nance, arm'd with talons keen
The feet, and the huge belly fledge with wings
These sit and wail on the drear mystic wood.†Canto 1.12-22 - "Ye of our bridge!" he cried, "keen-talon'd fiends!†
Canto 1.12-22
- See that his hide thou with thy talons flay,"
Shouted together all the cursed crew.†Canto 1.12-22talons = sharp hooked claws - Nor hook nor talon then should scare me more.†
Canto 1.12-22talon = sharp hooked claw
- Meantime let these ill talons bate their fury,
So that no vengeance they may fear from them,
And I, remaining in this self-same place,
Will for myself but one, make sev'n appear,
When my shrill whistle shall be heard; for so
Our custom is to call each other up.†Canto 1.12-22talons = sharp hooked claws - That mockery
In Calcabrina fury stirr'd, who flew
After him, with desire of strife inflam'd;
And, for the barterer had 'scap'd, so turn'd
His talons on his comrade.†Canto 1.12-22 - "Teacher," I thus began, "if speedily
Thyself and me thou hide not, much I dread
Those evil talons.†Canto 1.23-34 - The green talons grasp
The land, that stood erewhile the proof so long,
And pil'd in bloody heap the host of France.†Canto 1.23-34 - CANTO XXX
WHAT time resentment burn'd in Juno's breast
For Semele against the Theban blood,
As more than once in dire mischance was rued,
Such fatal frenzy seiz'd on Athamas,
That he his spouse beholding with a babe
Laden on either arm, "Spread out," he cried,
"The meshes, that I take the lioness
And the young lions at the pass: "then forth
Stretch'd he his merciless talons, grasping one,
One helpless innocent, Learchus nam'd,
Whom swinging down he dash'd upon a rock,
And with her other burden self-destroy'd
The hapless mother plung'd: and when the pride
Of all-presuming Troy fell from its height,
By fortune overwhelm'd, and the old king
With his realm perish†Canto 1.23-34 - He thus: "Not yet unto that upper foss
By th' evil talons guarded, where the pitch
Tenacious boils, had Michael Zanche reach'd,
When this one left a demon in his stead
In his own body, and of one his kin,
Who with him treachery wrought.†Canto 1.23-34
Definitions:
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(1)
(talon) a sharp hooked claw -- especially on a bird of prey
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)