Strong suspicions were entertained with respect to a herculean American negro, known as Black Tom, who kept an extremely disorderly hotel where seamen were known to be enticed and robbed.
Ni-a-bon was then called up before the Captain and questioned as to her preference, when, with many smiles and twisting about of her hands, she confessed to an ardent attachment to the herculean Bill.
His groping hand caught hold of the rung of the chair, and, with herculean labor, he turned and raised himself a fraction from the floor.
I think we should hit upon some expedient to tame these brutes, and teach them civilized conduct--an Herculean labour which the town authorities seem afraid to attempt.
He was dressed in a coarse waggoner's slop, which, however, was unable to conceal altogether the proportions of his noble and Herculean figure.
I had now a full view of his face and figure, and those huge features and Herculean form still occasionally revisit me in my dreams.
Old Mata was found to be a Herculean fellow, nearly eighty years old, and walking with a staff that resembled a small mast.
It is only by the most herculean effort that he reaches Chitambo on the south side of the lake.
A cry of "shame" broke from the crowd, for it was plain that the beaten man was now insensible, and supported only by the Herculean arm of the bully.
About thirty years ago there lived in the town of Chapelizod an ill-conditioned fellow of Herculean strength, well known throughout the neighborhood by the title of Bully Larkin.
His Herculean strength, and his moral energy, were both employed to assist the governors in maintaining peace and subordination.
It was necessary to procure a man fitted for a Herculean task.
It was impossible not to observe the towering stature and herculean mould of the Briton, the lithe and sinewy frame of the dark-eyed Asiatic.
Williams and his men, including one thousand negroes, labored like Titans to complete their canal, but a sudden rise of the river swept away the barriers with a terrific roar, and the days of herculean labor went for naught.
Meanwhile Thomas was performing a herculean task within the fortifications of that capital city.
Beauregard and Johnston found it a herculean task to rally the fleeing men and re-form the lines, but they succeeded at length; the battle was renewed, and from noon till nearly three o'clock it raged with greater fury than before.
In tune with the Herculean mechanical effort of the giant American cranes, their Herculean muscular effort in its impetuosity was in imminent danger of removing the stanchions from the ships as well as the cargo.
But the engine, after three Herculean throbs, ceased to work.
He then put his left arm inside the window, collared the old fellow with his right, and, half persuasion, half force, actually lowered him to the ladder with one Herculean arm amidst a roar that made the Borough ring.
As if suddenly invested with herculean strength, Maria hurls the ruffian from her, and lays him prostrate on the floor.
He seizes the exhausted woman in his arms, and with herculean strength rushes up the narrow street, in the hope of finding relief at the Gin Palace he sees at its head, in a blaze of light.
Ever ready to devote himself to any cause in which he was enlisted, the governor undertook the herculean task.
The rival princes surrounded him with haughty and menacing aspects; and one of insolent demeanor and herculean frame sneered at his light and youthful form, and scoffed at his amorous appellation.
Ferdinand and Isabella, Ponce de Leon, the gallant Marquis of Cadiz, and Garcilaso de la Vega, who slew in desperate fight Tarfe the Moor, a champion of Herculean strength.
It rested on the shoulders of an amiable man who was better suited to the ease of Naples than to the Herculean toils of Madrid.
The victor of Fleurus was now fifty-one years of age, and his failing health quite unfitted him for theHerculean tasks of guiding refractory generals, and of propping up a tottering monarchy.
This daily Herculean labour is performed by the clerks, sorters, and letter-carriers attached to the department.
Cramped as he was, his herculean strength stood him in good stead.
The sailor was of Herculean strength, the reporter also very powerful, and in spite of the monster's resistance he was firmly tied so that he could not even move.
To attack this mass of granite, even by a mine, was Herculean work, and it was really vexing that nature could not help them at their need.
The two lower classes engaged inherculean play while members of the two higher classes, standing aloof, devoted themselves strictly to the encouragement of whichever party for a moment lost ground or heart.
Had he accomplished the herculeantask of getting a carriage for four people to the door of the hotel in time for a drive at three o'clock, only to meet with this stoniness, this inhumanity?
With the age that is still unborn, with its herculean tasks and unsuspected glories, we need not concern ourselves at present.
It would be too feminine but for the muscular neck and broad chest from which the head rises, and the indications of great personal strength in the Herculean shoulders.
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