He saw it dominate the City of Never, and strove to reach it; but at this unmeasured home of unknown colossi the hippogriff shied frantically, and neither the magic halter nor anything that he did could make the monster face it.
Towards them he wrenched the halter, towards Toldenarba and the Under Pits; the wings of the hippogriff roared as the halter turned him.
And the moment that the man dismounted and took off his magic halter the hippogriff flew slanting away with a whirr, going back to some airy dancing-place of his people.
The hippogriff is a combination of horse and eagle.
The orc raised such a foam and tempest in the waters with the flapping of his tail, that the knight of the hippogriff hardly knew whether he was in air or sea.
His hippogriff returns, like a common horse, to the stable to which he has been accustomed.
Astolfo tied the hippogriff to a tree, and pushed forward in spite of a smoke that grew thicker and thicker, offending his eyes and nostrils.
The Paladin Astolfo ascends on the hippogriff to the top of one of the mountains at the source of the Nile, called the Mountains of the Moon, where he discovers the Terrestrial Paradise, and is welcomed by St. John the Evangelist.
Whether you recognize the rider of Hippogriff or not, this is he; and the poor livery-stable screw stretched madly till wind failed, when he was allowed to choose his pace.
He distinguishes being on the Hippogriff from being possessed by passion.
Forming no design beyond that of setting his eyes on her, he turned the head of Hippogriff due Westward.
It was that old enchanter whose arts had guided the Hippogriff to the isle of the too charming Alcina, where he hoped his favorite would learn to forget honor, and lose the love of glory.
The Hippogriff directed his flight to the west, and cleaved the air as swiftly as a new-rigged vessel cuts the waves, impelled by the freshest and most favorable gales.
Rogero, lance in rest, spurred his Hippogriff toward the Orc, and gave him a thrust.
Our readers are aware that the eagle and the falcon have not so swift a flight as the Hippogriff on which Astolpho rode.
At the same time the Hippogriff shook off his bridle, soared away, and flew to rejoin his former master, very naturally returning to his accustomed stable.
He caused the Hippogriff to alight not far from the scene, and found himself immediately surrounded by admiring spectators, knights and soldiers, who could not enough indulge their curiosity and wonder.
Bradamante advanced to seize the bridle; the Hippogriff seemed to wait her approach, but before she reached him he spread his wings and flew away to a neighboring hill, and in the same manner, a second time, eluded her efforts.
He began to fear that the wings of the Hippogriffwould be so drenched with water that they would cease to sustain him.
The Hippogriff bore him swiftly upwards, and landed him on the top of the mountain, which he found to be an extensive plain.
Rogero, making the Hippogriffalight in the meadow, dismounted, and took Angelica from the horse.
Agesilan, on being unable to find Diana, suspected treachery, so mounted the hippogriff and set out in search of her.
He found that by turning one of them to right or left the horse went in either direction, and that when the other was turned the wooden hippogriff slackened speed and descended.
To this Mendulus consented, and when they bestrode the artificial hippogriff Cleomades turned the pin, and in a moment they rose like an arrow from the bow.
Soon after, this reckless man vaults upon a hippogriff which lands him on an island, where an enchantress changes her visitors into beasts, stones, trees, etc.
Meantime Astolfo has ridden off on the hippogriffto the earthly paradise, where he has interviews with sundry saints and apostles, and whence St. John conveys him up to the moon.
Tying the rope into a sort of hackamore, he mounted again and rode the hippogriff to the pool below the thunder and cold spray of the waterfall.
The piebald hippogriff leaped into the air, and Johnny clamped his legs about convulsed muscles.
The hippogriff drooped its head and wings, trembling.
When he dismounted the hippogriff took honeycomb from his hand.
The tense wings flailed, caught air, and brought the hippogriff upright again.
When the next plunge came Johnny was ready for it and leaned back until the hippogriff arched its neck, trying to free itself from the pressure on its windpipe.
When he threw another bit, the piebald hippogriff wheeled away, but returned almost at once and ate it.
He took another piece of honeycomb from his pack and tossed it to the ground where the hippogriff could reach it easily.
He shared the last piece of honeycomb with his hippogriff and watched the sun sink still further.
The wings missed a beat and the hippogriff shook its head as the rope momentarily checked its breath.
When he ate some apples for his lunch, the hippogriff ate the cores.
It was bigger than the others, and the hippogriff had to bite it in two.
When the hippogriff bent its head to take the rest Johnny was on his feet instantly, swinging his lariat.
He mounted the piebald hippogriff and they flew off, up through the golden air to the sunset clouds.
Nineteen out of twenty would unhesitatingly declare that a hippogriff was a greater effort of imagination than a well-conceived human character; a Peri than a woman; Puck or Titania than Falstaff or Imogen.
The mind must SEE the angel or the demon, the hippogriff or centaur, the pixie or the mermaid.
The naturalist who should describe a hippogriff would incur the laughing scorn of Europe; but the poet feigns its existence, and all Europe is delighted when it rises with Astolfo in the air.
That afternoon, just as a picnic tea was ending, a great shadow fell on the party, and next moment the Hippogriff alighted with Mr. Perrin and the parrot on its back.
She made the Hippogriff take her to another glade--more little steel spears.
Before any one could see who that some one was, the Hippogriff had flown low enough for that some one to catch Philip by his seaweed tunic and to swing him off his feet and on to the Hippogriff's back.
Polly let the ear go for the moment to say: 'I shan't hurt her so long as she behaves,' and then took hold again and his little grey wings and the big white wings of the Hippogriff went sailing away across the desert.
So she made no attempt to check theHippogriff or alter its course.
The parrot and the Hippogriff between them managed to get Mr. Noah to the castle by noon of the next day.
And the Hippogriff turned his white velvet nose and nuzzled against her in affectionate acknowledgment of the compliment.
The Hippogriff offered to bring me; he is the soul of courteous gentleness.
But how did the megawhatsitsname and the Hippogriff come to be the proper size?
And when the Hippogriff was hovering but a few inches from the grass of the most beautiful of the island glades, she jerked Philip roughly off her knee and he fell all in a heap on the ground.
Hippogriff with her horrid motor veil fluttering in the breeze from the now hidden sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hippogriff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
