Mythical mascot of the College of William & Mary

Usage examples of griffin.

If the Empire were to become truly organized, they would certainly put down the ogrilloi and the human bandits, and kill the dragons and trolls and griffins, possibly the elves and dwarves and all the other things that make Adventuring entertaining in the first place.

When the griffins wearily leveled out, heads bent down between their spread wings, ready to soar or sideslip if the thing came for them, the blueness leaped into a long flash of azure light, rushing in zigzags underneath them faster even than lightning, and disappeared into the distance behind.

Brodie was comparing his new lieutenant, Cliff Marsland, with the old, Bozo Griffin.

If such were the case, the guilt must lie between Bozo Griffin and Cliff Marsland.

Cliff Marsland, strolling through the badlands with Bozo Griffin, had gained no suspicion whatever.

With a contemptuous laugh, Brodie Brodan ordered Bozo Griffin to bring the prisoner along.

The chuffing of the griffins grew in pitch until it became a cross between a yelp and howl.

All at once he started awake, hearing that ringing beat, but he realized he was listening to the chuffing of the griffins.

Ireland began to collect her folk-tales almost as early as any country in Europe, and Croker has found a whole school of successors in Carleton, Griffin, Kennedy, Curtin, and Douglas Hyde.

Thirlwall, Fitzgerald, and Griffin, addressed him a letter, in which he was requested to resign his office, since he must see, as well as they, the inconsistency of holding his position as Bishop and believing and publishing such views as were contained in his exegetical works.

Suddenly Griffin Larry Niven and Steven Barnes 187 saw Bishop as a Gamer King of the Gamers, perhaps.

And there, gliding in, was Niffy Gliff, the combination griffin Pegasus with the horn.

Of course there was a mossy stone hemicycle not far off, and cracked benches with griffins feet, where one might sit and gossip and watch the lizards scamper in the sun.

And you know a hippogriff is a cross between a horse and a griffin, right?

Harry recognized the hippogriff immediately, and wished he was able to speak in his griffin form.