But when the Harpies had come thither also and done in the same fashion, AEneas commanded that the men should draw their swords and do battle with the beasts.
Then they prepared a banquet for him, and as soon as the old man had reached his hand to the food, of a sudden the Harpies flew down, as lightning cometh out of the clouds, and carried off the meat.
Harpies came upon them, making great havoc of the meat and fouling all things most horribly.
Therefore, the Harpies coming yet again, Misenus with his trumpet gave the sound for battle.
The Harpies then fed on its leaves, causing both pain and a vent for lamentation.
The Harpies wailed among the trees, occasionally showing their human faces; and on every side of him Dante heard lamenting human voices, but could see no one from whom they came.
But none were as disgusting as the harpies whose offal polluted the leaves of my sycamore.
The harpies came and sat in its branches; they deafened us with their shrill cries and cast their excrement over all our food.
She took the oath that the gods most dread--the oath by the Water of Styx--that never again would the Harpies show themselves to Phineus.
And one of the Harpies perched herself on the back of the king's throne and looked upon the heroes with red eyes.
There he bestowed upon the banishers of the Harpies crowns and arm rings of gold and richly colored garments and brazen chests in which to store the treasure that he gave.
Forbear to slay the Harpies, sons of Boreas," cried Iris warningly, "forbear to slay the Harpies that are the hounds of Zeus.
Hearing the king speak like this, the Harpies gathered together and gnashed with their teeth, and chattered to one another.
The island that they drove the Harpies to had been called the Floating Island, but thereafter it was called the Island of Turning.
He stood holding it in his trembling hands, fearful even then that the Harpies would tear the cup out of his hands.
But high as the Harpies rose, the sons of the North Wind rose higher.
As they were being pursued, one of the Harpies fell into the river Tigris, in Peloponnesus which is now called Harpys after her.
Jason could not refuse their request; and the two youths, with drawn swords, pursued the Harpies to the Strophades Islands, where the birds promised to remain.
She became the mother of Zetes and Calais,--who took part in the Argonautic expedition, and drove away the Harpies (p.
At the same time that those harpies walk in here, another set will walk into Ashlydyat.
If once those harpies of men come in, you can't move or hide a single article, but you might put the whole house away now, if you could get it out.
On this they are immediately set upon by Jews and harpies of every description.
The Jew harpieswere on the quays ready to snap them up, giving little or nothing in return.
And unoffending Harpies would ye chase Forth from their old, hereditary reign?
Back, from another quarter of the sky, Dark-ambushed, round the clamorous Harpies fly With taloned claws, and taste and taint the prey.
Phineus was at last freed from them by Zetes and Calais, the sons of the North Wind, who drove the Harpies from Thrace to the Strophades.
And these unclean harpies of greed and gall have been too long permitted to dominate this government.
Better everlasting life in a lake of fire than enforced companionship in Paradise for one hour with the foul harpies that groaned "awmen" to Slattery's infamous utterances.
So theHarpies were justified, so far as this one phenomenon was concerned.
According to the first commentators, the subject represented was the rape of the daughters of Pandareos, king of Lycia, by the Harpies (Homer, Od.
In it congregate human vultures and harpies who absorb most of the plunder that is gained outside, and render more brutal and desperate the wretches they rob in comparative safety.
It did not take these harpies five minutes to possess themselves of everything but the poor girl's dress and undergarments.
They are bound hand and foot to the harpies who are their keepers.
The three heads of Cerberus, Diana of the many breasts and even harpies are similarly explained as suggested by malformations or by excess parts or organs.
Thus, in the well-known vase with the Harpies robbing the blind Phineus of his food (p.
While they were feasting on the flesh of these creatures, the harpies appeared.
The men shot at them, but the arrows glanced off of the feathers, and not one of the harpies was harmed.
Our readers will remember that in the conflict with the Harpies one of those half-human birds had threatened the Trojans with dire sufferings.
They were sent by the gods to torment a certain Phineus, whom Jupiter had deprived of his sight, in punishment of his cruelty; and whenever a meal was placed before him the Harpies darted down from the air and carried it off.
At last the Harpies grew very tired and fell into the sea and were drowned.
The Harpies had skin like brass and nobody could hurt them.
When the king's dinner was ready, the Harpiescame and took it away.
When the food was put on the table, the Harpies came flying in.
After which passionate denunciation, which scorched the tears in her eyes to brown points of flame, she walked swiftly away from him, in the direction of the adventurers and harpies awaiting her upon the jetty.
The harpies flock around the men who have the most money.
The Trojans got ready another meal and again sat down to eat, but the Harpies again came down upon them as before, and did in like manner.
Do you dare to drive theHarpies from the place which is their own?
Upon hearing this the Argonauts spread a plentiful feast on the seashore, well knowing from what the blind king said of their greediness that the Harpies would snuff up the scent of the victuals and quickly come to steal them away.
The two winged youths blustered terribly at theHarpies (for they had the rough temper of their father), and so frightened them with their drawn swords that they solemnly promised never to trouble King Phineus again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harpies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
