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Anyhow, it gave me a wherewithal to throw sops to a whole Zooful of Cerberuses, and still keep enough to take that flat in the Carstairs' house in Berkeley Square.

From The Brightener by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

Oh, good Sir, take your Cerberuses off—I do confess, the Captain here, and I have violated your Fame.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague

As a sop to those toothless old Cerberuses the bishops, who impotently exhibit still the passions of another age, we will accord the continuance of the prohibition which forbids a man to marry his grandmother.

From Matthew Arnold by Russell, George William Erskine