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Was the instructing, drilling, marshalling, living, and conversing all together of these wretches, who were watched and kept under lock and key by these Cerberi, an example of the impartiality of British justice?

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne

Sun and moon, the Veda declares, are the Cerberi.

From Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea by Bloomfield, Maurice

With the change of the abode of the dead from inferno to heaven the two Cerberi are eo ipso also evicted.

From Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea by Bloomfield, Maurice

On the way to heaven there is but one pair that can have shaped itself reasonably in the minds of primitive observers into a pair of Cerberi.

From Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea by Bloomfield, Maurice