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See it there, that Gorgonian head, that sawpit of a mouth.
Our American King David Lozell martin 2007
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See it there, that Gorgonian head, that sawpit of a mouth.
Our American King David Lozell martin 2007
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See it there, that Gorgonian head, that sawpit of a mouth.
Our American King David Lozell martin 2007
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See it there, that Gorgonian head, that sawpit of a mouth.
Our American King David Lozell martin 2007
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For I was reminded of Gorgias, and at the end of his speech I fancied that Agathon was shaking at me the Gorginian or Gorgonian head of the great master of rhetoric, which was simply to turn me and my speech, into stone, as Homer says, and strike me dumb.
thispain Diary Entry thispain 2006
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And Lucy, blushing, starting back, and looking at Perkins in a very melancholy way, made him a little curtsey, and went off to the Gorgonian party with her cousin.
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It was indeed Lady Gorgon in her Gorgonian chariot.
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I fancied that Agathon was shaking at me the Gorginian or Gorgonian head of the great master of rhetoric, which was simply to turn me and my speech into stone, as Homer says (Odyssey), and strike me dumb.
The Symposium 2006
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Whose white and stainless bosom bears the sign Gorgonian.
Collected Poems 2003
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A painter might have manufactured a tolerable Gorgonian head from among them.
A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman
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