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Snake-haired she-beast
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gorgon
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Gorgon is a fictional character , a DC Comics supervillain , part of the evil gang called Extremists . He is based on the Marvel Comics supervillain Doctor Octopus , and like him has several super-strong tentacles, though they are organic rather than mechanical. ...
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Gorgon \Gor"gon\ (g[^o]r"g[o^]n), n. [L. Gorgo, -onis, Gr. Gorgw`, fr. gorgo`s terrible.] (Gr. Myth.) One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name ...
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Medusa the Gorgon, complete with a wig of genuine living snakelets that had the whole room screaming in terror every time he lowered his head and threatened to charge, and a flowing mass of draperies in Coan floss silk that showed the guests his biggest snake all too clearly.
And if he was, was he suggesting it about one overambitious gorgon with skewed priorities, or about a treacherous vein, you should forgive the term, running through all of SOF?
Gorgons and Hydras of the skies as interesting problems yet unsolved, as well as to consider that the belief in lunar influence is a fragment of a true system of natural philosophy which has become more and more debased in postdiluvian times.
Without conscious thought, he whipped a tiny arrow from the quiver and docked it, aimed it at the Gorgon, and released it in one, quick practiced motion, as though he carried all the marvelous bowmanship of his ancestors in his heart.
Gorgons and Chimaeras dire, might be expected to gloom out occasionally from the awful Fauna of an ever-generating world upon that one which was being born of it.
We have to find something to blame for our downfall, so we pick on the relationship with the Gorgons and try to ignore the weakness that must exist in us to make it necessary.
The hostile environment meant little to it, because like all the Gorgons it had already adapted to its surroundings.
He was counted a strong man among the men of Grath and had the reputation of resorting to the lusts of the Gorgons as seldom as possible.
And none seemed to realize that once they had been able to dominate the Gorgons without trouble.
The trouble was that all too often the perversions they learned from the Gorgons came to be practiced on their subject races, and no stops were pulled.
There are centaurs there, and all the creatures you would hear of only in myth - werebeasts and Harpies, gorgons and beasts of darkness.
But so also will the Vores and the gorgons, the hydras and the birds of death.
So she became the sister of the Gorgons, Stheino and Euryte the abhorred, the daughters of the Queen of the Sea.
We are the kindred of the Titans, and the Giants, and the Gorgons, and the ancient monsters of the deep.
Phoneland, where even the harpies still touched me tenderly and the gorgons looked at me with naked pity.