एक भयंकर स्वभाव वाली एक दुर्भावनापूर्ण महिला

Noun:

स्त्री के मुख तथा शरीर और पक्षी के परों और पंजों वाला भयंकर दैत्य, भयानक और खूँखार व्यक्ति,

harpies's Usage Examples:

harpy first season we have sea serpents; we have an avalanche of rocks that reconfigures into a rock giant; we have harpies.

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He knew the course to Colchis, and offered to tell it, if the Argonauts would free him from the Harpies.

At the entrance to the Euxine, at Salmydessus on the coast of Thrace, they met Phineus, the blind and aged king whose food was being constantly polluted by the Harpies.

14 gives a representation of the winged Harpies.

Having been deprived of his sight by the gods for his ill-treatment of his sons by his first wife (or for having revealed the future to mortals), he was condemned to be tormented by two Harpies, who carried off whatever food was placed before him.

The repulsive character of the Harpies is more especially seen in the legend of Phineus, king of Salmydessus in Thrace (Apollodorus i.

His oracular reserve, personal honesty and consistency of aim had gained him the suffrages of all who hoped to save France from the harpies of the Directory and the violent rhetoricians of the now reconstituted Jacobin Club.

On the so-called Harpy monument from Lycia, now in the British Museum, the Harpies appear carrying off some small figures, supposed to be the daughters of Pandareus, unless they are intended to represent departed souls.

(1892-1893), the Harpies are the hostile spirits of the scorching south wind; E.

harpies's Meaning':

a malicious woman with a fierce temper