Example Sentences

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The god of wrath who ruled in New York a hundred years, through the ministerial prerogatives, was guarded by a Cerberean legend.

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Conway, Moncure Daniel

And indeed their appearance was terrible, where they lay with wide Cerberean mouths, hideously gaping over the roaring waves, and threatening destruction to the foes of liberty.

From The Life of General Francis Marion by Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke)

Be this as it may, the evil spirit of jealousy, and with it the Cerberean whelps of feud and slander, no longer walk their rounds, in cultivated society.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

I must likewise take notice, that there are in Milton several Words of his own coining, as Cerberean, miscreated, Hell-doom'd, Embryon Atoms, and many others.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

A crew of hell-hounds never ceasing bark, With wide Cerberean mouth, full loud, and ring A hideous peal.

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John