furies's Usage Examples:

Orestes was persued by the Furies for committing matricide, they drove him mad and he chased him from land to land.

furyd now I'm in flight--pursued by furies of my own invoking--threatened with love in its most hideous form-- matrimony!

Specimens of Fowler's verses were published in 1803 by John Leyden in his Scottish Descriptive Poems. Fowler contributed a prefatory sonnet to James VI.'s Furies; and James, in return, commended, in verse, Fowler's Triumphs.

The staff officers bore similar titles, relics of the time when the order existed only for amusement: Genii, Hydras, Furies, Goblins, Night Hawks, Magi, Monks and Turks.

Then he bursts into one of his wild furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens them, and reads those from the Emperor addressed to others.

From the blood of Uranus (this feature is common in Red Indian and Egyptian myths) were born furies, giants, ash-nymphs and Aphrodite.

FURIES (Lat.

euµevrls, kindly; ci), well, and µEvos, disposition), the "kindly ones," a euphemism for the Furies or Erinyes.

And now I'm in flight--pursued by furies of my own invoking--threatened with love in its most hideous form-- matrimony!

Synonyms:

madness, anger, choler, wrath, lividity, ire, rage,

Antonyms:

good humor, venial sin, fearlessness, tame, tractability,