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I know it should be as easy as counting on your fingers, but for some that is a Herculian (Rovian?) task.
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It is true that attention was focused on Dr. Charles Smith but only because of the Herculian efforts of a couple of lawyers who care about wrongful convictions.
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If that saying is in any way true, these kids will be Herculian by the time they grow pubic hair.
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I had to overcome all of my doubts, insecurities, and the unknown -- giving up control and using all my strategies to accomplish what seemed a task assigned by the goddesses -- did feel like a Herculian effort.
Agapi Stassinopoulos: Fearlessly Defrosting Your Expression 2008
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After infinite intricate revolvings, wheeling about his busied braine, he thought it not altogether an Herculian taske, to enjoy his happinesse in the house, and without any suspition, albeit Puccio kept still within doores, and watched as hee was wont to doe.
The Decameron 2004
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Her reacclimation to life outside prison, experts say, will be an Herculian task that many cannot overcome.
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According to Prof Kleynhans it would take a "Herculian effort" from the NP to turn around coloured people's resentment of the
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The Col. thinks because he was Chairman of the last State Committee, & the party were successful that all is owing to him and his Herculian ascertions.
Franklin County: I. H. McCauley to Simon Cameron, January 5, 1861 I. H. McCauley 1861
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They all went to Chalcedon, and in the presence of the chiefs and tribunes, the Jovian and Herculian legions, they tried several causes with too much rigour, though there were some in which it was undeniable that the accused were really guilty.
The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Ammianus Marcellinus 1851
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Lets not forget the Herculian effort by the "Axe"Sam Ripira with his tireless go forward approach.
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