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“But even hundred-headed dice, rolled many times, can yield double sixes.”
“Slain them in a wild fit of frenzy with arrows dipped in the venom of the hundred-headed hydra.”
“Each problem seems to be one head of a hundred-headed hydra, and if you cut off one head, two grow back in their place.”
“The sight of the hundred-headed monster in that dimly firelit hall was enough to freeze the blood of the stoutest with terror.”
“The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them.”
“Hesperides, who were assisted in their task by a terrible hundred-headed dragon.”
“Four maidens called the Hesperides, daughters of Night, were the guardians of this sacred garden, and with them watched the hundred-headed dragon, Ladon, whose father was Phorkys, the parent of many monsters.”
“Meanwhile the hundred-headed adder, being unable any longer to endure the pain the gods and giants inflicted on him, vomited poison upon the giants, which killed many of them on the spot.”
“After the first fifteen or twenty minutes, during which the favorite stocks had been danced up and down a few times, like so many crying babies, the appetite of the hundred-headed hydra abated a little, and the general attention to business relaxed.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873
“So the maidens sang Hespere, Eretheis, and Aegle -- and they complained that now, unhelped by the hundred-headed dragon, they had to keep guard over the tree.”
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Polycephaly - A Many-Headed List
A list of terms for things with many heads, including animal monsters, plants, human and animal chimera, mythical beings, &c., including the terms to describe them.
polycephaly, three-headed, four-headed, five-headed, six-headed, seven-headed, ten-headed, twelve-headed, thirteen-headed, fifteen-headed, seventeen-headed, two-headed and 49 more...
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