harpies in English

noun
1
a rapacious monster described as having a woman's head and body and a bird's wings and claws or depicted as a bird of prey with a woman's face.
The harpy woman shook her wings and let out a blood curdling cry from the depths of her throat, raising goose bumps on my arms.
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1. Zetes and Calais had the ability to fly, a useful skill made use of to chase away the Harpies during the Argonaut’s quest, for the Harpies were tormenting Phineas

2. The Harpies are vicious, hungry creatures who will gang up on any isolated individual.

3. Synonyms for Bacchantes include maenads, fury, shrews, viragos, termagants, vixens, hags, harridans, spitfires and harpies

4. 8 The Harpies are vicious, hungry creatures who will gang up on any isolated individual.

5. Being almost the colour of the rocks, the Harpies are difficult to spot before they move.

6. As soon as the adventurers stop moving, the Harpies will swoop down from their roosts in the rock.

7. Synonyms for Bitches include vixens, cows, shrews, harpies, hellcats, witches, cats, grimalkins, she-devils and broads

8. The harpies from Paris running the road houses which must inevitably multiply will be a worse scourge than the mosquitoes.

9. 23 The harpies from Paris running the road houses which must inevitably multiply will be a worse scourge than the mosquitoes.

10. LOUISE DE LA VALLIERE ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE Can anything be so bad as the living bush which bleeds and talks, or the Harpies who Befoul Aeneas's dinner? LIFE AND LETTERS OF LORD MACAULAY GEORGE OTTO TREVELYAN

11. In Leipzig-based painter Rosa Loy’s phantasmagoric compositions, the industrious, rosy-cheeked women of socialist realism are recast in Kafkaesque mise-en-scènes, in which they farm human-faced heads of lettuce, feed lollipops to Harpies wearing headbands, and recline on couches in poses of Analysands more than odalisques.

12. The sole reason the administration (and its group of well know right wing bloggers, pudits, and other well known “harpies”) have their britches pulled so tightly up the crack of thier Backsides is it is another piece of the puzzle falling into place of how this administration intentionally decided to punk Congress and the courts (not to