Heracles
noun
Heraclean
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a word derived from
Heracles.
Example Sentences
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Hence it was that I decided the question in my friend's favor, and a week or two later had him in at "The Heraclean" for luncheon.
From R. Holmes & Co. by John Kendrick Bangs
His Breton sailor, Hervé Riel, has more than a touch of the Heraclean frankness of gaiety in arduous effort.
From Robert Browning by Edward Dowden
That the Italian Heracleans should have preserved the ancient language and writing to the fifth century after the building of Rome so faithfully as the famous Heraclean Tables show us, is very remarkable.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
The graves of Amphitryon, Iolaus, and Alcmena, and the Gymnasium for the Iolaän or Heraclean games, were in front of the gate of Prœtidæ, Pind.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
Now here is the Christian change of the Heraclean conquest of Death into Christ's Resurrection.
From The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford by John Ruskin
