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Harpy

noun

(pl. harpies)

A malicious woman with a fierce temper. Synonyms: hellcat, vixen.

(Greek mythology) vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman.

Any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes. Synonyms: harpy bat, tube-nosed bat, tube-nosed fruit bat.

Large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America. Synonyms: Harpia harpyja, harpy eagle.

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"Harpy" Quotes from Famous Books

... and you then may hang him. Shew me a lawyer that turnes sacred law (The equall rendrer of each man his owne, 50 The scourge of rapine and extortion, The sanctuary and impregnable defence Of retir'd learning and besieged vertue) Into a Harpy, that eates all but's owne, Into the damned sinnes it punisheth, 55 Into the synagogue of theeves and atheists; Blood into gold, and justice into lust:— Let me but hawlk at him, as at the rest, He shall confesse all, and you then may ...

— Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois • George Chapman

... we wandered in That land of ruins, through whose sky of brass Hate's Harpy shrieked; and in whose iron grass The Hydra hissed of ...

— Myth and Romance - Being a Book of Verses • Madison Cawein

... after his arrival he began to complain that he felt worse. It was then that he became the ranch's incubus, its harpy, its Old Man of the Sea. He shut himself in his room like some venomous kobold or flibbertigibbet, whining, complaining, cursing, accusing. The keynote of his plaint was that he had been inveigled into a gehenna against his will; that he was dying of neglect and lack of comforts. With all his ...

— Heart of the West • O. Henry

... Harpy, and the heroes drew together, made fearful by these awful shapes. All drew back except Zetes and Calais, the sons of the North Wind. They laid their hands upon their swords. The wings on their shoulders spread out and the wings ...

— The Golden Fleece and the Heroes who Lived Before Achilles • Padraic Colum

... manuscript, I was caught by the name Charpillon, which every reader of the Memoirs will remember as the name of the harpy by whom Casanova suffered so much in London, in 1763-4. This manuscript begins by saying: 'I have been in London for six months and have been to see them (that is, the mother and daughter) in their own house,' where he finds nothing but 'swindlers, ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

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