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Because these men were mere clods, bold enough and clever enough in their own rude way, but no match for the law, with its Argus eyes and its Briarean hands.

From For the Term of His Natural Life by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

He was the great virtuoso on the orchestra, and on this Briarean instrument he played with the most amazing skill.

From Great Italian and French Composers by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)

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

As commerce increases, and stretches out her Briarean hands into the stormy roads and bays of these heretofore uninhabited lakes, losses from wrecks annually redouble.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Briarean, brī-ā′re-an, adj. relating to Briareus, a hundred-handed giant: hence many-handed.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various