What is "griffins"

Usage examples of "griffins".

One could husband griffins as a farmer husbands geese, he supposes as he, too, drifts on the wind, thoughts shredding into insubstantial bits.

Each pillar had been carved in the shape of an animal: dragons, griffins, eagles, and guivres accompanied their climb.

I need him to guide my army safely through the grasslands and lead us to the lands where we may hunt griffins and meet sorcerers.

There is talk in some learned circles of our major cities about whether or not satyrs, centaurs, griffins and certain other fantastic beasts really exist, or are only the product of the popular imagination.

As a wizard, I, of course, tend to side with the satyrs, centaurs, and griffins, especially when these beasts begin to doubt the existence of any learned circles in our major cities.

From Ungria he intends to journey farther east into the lands where sorcerers and griffins may be found.

Do not think it will be so easy to find anything on those trackless wastes, and especially not griffins and sorcerer women.

The seventh of their number bore tattoos all over his torso, twisted animals amid scenes of battle and carnage, griffins eating deer, lions rending hapless men, and a belled rider mounted on an eight-legged horse riding over corpses.

Yet in such a vast expanse, how could Sanglant track down griffins and sorcerers without the help of someone who knew the land?

Laughing, crying, she could not speak to thank them, but she had no need to do so since Blessing had already begun asking questions, demanding to know more about the griffins and the river and the storm of butterflies.

Beyond this obstacle a hollow widened out of the mountainside, forming a sheltered niche where griffins had built a gigantic nest out of branches, grass, reeds, bones, scraps of cloth, and a litter of iron feathers woven together.

Was there some virtue in the griffins that made it impossible to kill them?

And now he must hunt griffins in the midst of a wilderness whose landscape was utterly unfamiliar to him, nothing like the fields and woodland and hills he had grown up in.

The griffins are such magnificent creatures that his attention wanders away from the woman and man and the peculiar circle of dying flame.

As the promise of the sun brightened the eastern sky, limning the crags with its pale glow, the griffins sank down on the sunning stone.