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Example sentences from the Web for FuriesBut it turns out The Furies of Maidan is not a figment of his imagination. Want a Good Look at Putin’s Pervy Propaganda? See ‘The Furies of Maidan’|Cathy Young|April 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST Like the Furies, the Cheneys stand for unreason and emotionalism. Cheney Blood Lust|Lee Siegel|October 22, 2009|DAILY BEAST Her indecent haste, her hideous petition, show that she shared the furies of her race. Oscar Wilde|Leonard Cresswell Ingleby Had not the old Marquis of Norborough been celebrated through his entire life for his furies? T. Tembarom|Frances Hodgson Burnett
So Berlioz started for Italy, smarting with rage and pain, as if the Furies were lashing him with their scorpion whips. Great Musical Composers|George T. Ferris The blacke infernall Furies, the Erinyes, or goddesses of vengeance, who dwelt in Erebus. Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I|Edmund Spenser Let the individual descend below a certain level, and countless dead suddenly seize and destroy him,—like the Furies. The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2|Elizabeth Bisland
pl n singular Furyclassical myth the snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, usually three in number, who pursued unpunished criminalsAlso called: Erinyes, Eumenides Words nearby Furiesfurfural, furfuraldehyde, furfuran, furfurol, Furiae, Furies, furioso, furious, furkid, furl, furlong Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for Furies
In classical mythology, hideous female monsters who relentlessly pursued evildoers. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |