Briareus
noun
Greek myth a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans
Briarean
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a word derived from
Briareus.
Example Sentences
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As to the money—why, fear not for thy pockets Dame, which are not yet utterly depleted by that Briarean blood-sucker, Bumble.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 by Various
Even his Briarean arms were sometimes too full of the controversial work which his overbearing temper and fierce passions were constantly giving him.
From Poetical Works of Akenside by George Gilfillan
There was on the side of England the Briarean monopoly of the Hudson’s Bay Company, supported by a disciplined and intelligent government.
From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman
He likes to hear of patent reapers, Briarean threshing-machines, and anything that will save him most of the time and trouble of gathering in his heavy crops,—but that is all.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various
Notions, worthy only of the dark ages, spring up in the glare of the supposed illumination of the present day, and resist all the efforts of the Briarean press itself to dispel them.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832 by Various
