Stories from heathen mythology and Greek historyJoseph Masters, 1847 - 241 páginas |
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... sword , and commended himself to the gods , and looked steadily at the buckler . The snakes on Medusa's head twined and twisted themselves together , as if they were afraid of the stranger : they hissed with their long forked tongues ...
... sword , and commended himself to the gods , and looked steadily at the buckler . The snakes on Medusa's head twined and twisted themselves together , as if they were afraid of the stranger : they hissed with their long forked tongues ...
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John Mason Neale. smote it manfully with his sword , and it came off in his hand . But though Medusa was dead , the danger of Perseus was not over . The other Gorgons had awoke at her dying yell , and terrible was their fury and their ...
John Mason Neale. smote it manfully with his sword , and it came off in his hand . But though Medusa was dead , the danger of Perseus was not over . The other Gorgons had awoke at her dying yell , and terrible was their fury and their ...
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... swords ; its claws , like the bowsprit of a ves- sel : and its huge wings like the mainsails of a man - of - war . As it came it roared terribly ; and the echo rolled up the mountain ravines , dying away in the far distance . The waters ...
... swords ; its claws , like the bowsprit of a ves- sel : and its huge wings like the mainsails of a man - of - war . As it came it roared terribly ; and the echo rolled up the mountain ravines , dying away in the far distance . The waters ...
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... sword - like tongue . But the hero was on his guard : and he smote so true a blow on the scaly head , that scales and skull were crushed beneath his club . And the long neck moved convulsively to and fro ; as a worm writhes in agony ...
... sword - like tongue . But the hero was on his guard : and he smote so true a blow on the scaly head , that scales and skull were crushed beneath his club . And the long neck moved convulsively to and fro ; as a worm writhes in agony ...
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... sword , O Iolaus , and heat it in the flame let it glow like the blacksmith's forge , and then follow me . " Then Hercules went forth to meet the monster , and Iolaus followed . The hero dashed in pieces one of the hundred heads , and ...
... sword , O Iolaus , and heat it in the flame let it glow like the blacksmith's forge , and then follow me . " Then Hercules went forth to meet the monster , and Iolaus followed . The hero dashed in pieces one of the hundred heads , and ...
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Stories from Heathen Mythology and Greek History: For the Use of Christian ... John Mason Neale Vista de fragmentos - 1905 |
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