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  • Danielle's mother was doing the herculean task of taking care of her.†   (source)
  • I could only dimly imagine the Herculean effort behind this simple gesture.†   (source)
  • The guard, the father and one or two small children began the herculean job of waking Dad.†   (source)
  • It took three attempts to sit up in bed, and after staggering to the bathroom, she'd found that brushing her teeth without screaming took a herculean amount of self-control.†   (source)
  • It was a Herculean task.†   (source)
  • And then, through some Herculean effort of will, I made myself climb.†   (source)
  • Land valuation is a herculean task.†   (source)
  • He dropped his hand again, made what appeared to be a herculean effort for control.†   (source)
  • I was pretty sure Hercules had fought this thing once, but I couldn't remember how he'd beaten it.   (source)
  • But when he was held, rootless, in mid-air, by Hercules, he perished easily.   (source)
  • Adorned with 140 statues of saints, martyrs, and angels, the Herculean edifice stretched two football fields wide and a staggering six long.†   (source)
  • We talked of him, Thomas Sutpen, of the end of the War (we could all see it now) and when he would return, of what he would do: how begin the Herculean task which we knew he would set himself, into which (oh yes, we knew this too) he would undoubtedly sweep us with the old ruthlessness whether we would or no; we talked of Henry, quietly—that normal useless impotent woman-worrying about the absent male—as to how be fared, if he were cold or hungry or not, just as we talked of his…†   (source)
  • This he shot, and set himself a Herculean task in packing the whole carcass back to camp.†   (source)
  • The men here performed Herculean labors, but they got through to a park where the snow was gone.†   (source)
  • What was the meaning of this so steady and self-respecting, this small Herculean labor, I knew not.†   (source)
  • By June the first year the result of such Herculean toil began to show on the farm.†   (source)
  • To acquire languages, departed or living in spite of such obstinacies as he now knew them inherently to possess, was a herculean performance which gradually led him on to a greater interest in it than in the presupposed patent process.†   (source)
  • When he had gazed at the San Juan Canyon he had been appalled at the nature of Joe Lake's Herculean task.†   (source)
  • The foremost one, a man of Herculean build, jumped his mount across the brook, and leaped off while he hauled the horse to a stop.†   (source)
  • She had a glimpse of Kells's dark face drawing away from her; another of Gulden's giant form in Herculean action, tossing men aside like ninepins; another of weapons aloft.†   (source)
  • …seen, to make Ben-Hur nervous; so now, when in the tall stout stranger he recognized the Northman whom he had known in Rome, and seen crowned only the day before in the Circus as the winning pugilist; when he saw the man's face, scarred with the wounds of many battles, and imbruted by ferocious passions; when he surveyed the fellow's naked limbs, very marvels of exercise and training, and his shoulders of Herculean breadth, a thought of personal danger started a chill along every vein.†   (source)
  • The gratings are every day carefully examined by jailers, whose herculean proportions and cold pitiless expression prove them to have been chosen to reign over their subjects for their superior activity and intelligence.†   (source)
  • E'en fortunate Napoleon Knows by experience, now, Bagration, And dare not Herculean Russians trouble….†   (source)
  • From his Herculean frame and great powers of limb he had received the nickname of BROM BONES, by which he was universally known.†   (source)
  • Conseil and I were soon dressed in these diving suits, as were Captain Nemo and one of his companions—a herculean type who must have been prodigiously strong.†   (source)
  • It might have been supposed from his Herculean strength that one night of carousing, even accompanied by the most violent emotions, could have had little effect on him.†   (source)
  • A pack of beggars who have become my good friends, have taught me twenty sorts of herculean feats, and now I give to my teeth every evening the bread which they have earned during the day by the sweat of my brow.†   (source)
  • His piles, or, to use the language of the country, his logging ended, with a dispatch that could only accompany his dexterity and herculean strength, the jobber would collect together his implements of labor, light the heaps of timber, and march away under the blaze of the prostrate forest, like the conqueror of some city who, having first prevailed over his adversary, applies the torch as the finishing blow to his conquest.†   (source)
  • A herculean struggle had begun.†   (source)
  • But one of these balls, launched by Porthos' herculean hand, passed so close to d'Artagnan's face that he thought that if, instead of passing near, it had hit him, his audience would have been probably lost, as it would have been impossible for him to present himself before the king.†   (source)
  • He stood long hovering above the recumbent and Herculean form of the emigrant, keenly debating in his own mind the chances of his enterprise, and the most effectual means of reaping its richest harvest.†   (source)
  • —THE SHIP ORION endowed with Herculean strength, found means to escape; but three or four days after his flight the police laid their hands on him once more, in Paris itself, at the very moment when he was entering one of those little vehicles which run between the capital and the village of Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise).†   (source)
  • I will tell you the tale of my wanderings and of the 'Herculean' labours, as I may call them, which I endured only to find at last the oracle irrefutable.†   (source)
  • Great Hercules is presented   (source)
    Hercules = Roman mythology:  hero famous for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality
  • So rose the Danite strong, Herculean Samson, from the harlot-lap Of Philistean Dalilah, and waked Shorn of his strength.†   (source)
  • —Still he mends; But this is not the best:—look, pr'ythee, Charmian, How this Herculean Roman does become The carriage of his chafe.†   (source)
  • With these he long sustain'd th' Herculean arm; And these I wielded while my blood was warm, This languish'd frame while better spirits fed, Ere age unstrung my nerves, or time o'ersnow'd my head.†   (source)
  • In every country it is a herculean task to obtain a valuation of the land; in a country imperfectly settled and progressive in improvement, the difficulties are increased almost to impracticability.†   (source)
  • Not far from him was Gyas laid along, Of monstrous bulk; with Cisseus fierce and strong: Vain bulk and strength! for, when the chief assail'd, Nor valor nor Herculean arms avail'd, Nor their fam'd father, wont in war to go With great Alcides, while he toil'd below.†   (source)
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  • "If that was true, I'd be Hercules by now," Lori said.†   (source)
  • Done it before, haven't you, Hercules?†   (source)
  • Trainer of Hercules and all that?†   (source)
  • Hercules is an assistant manager.†   (source)
  • But it was the ancient Greek stories written centuries before that Marcus loved most, especially the tales of the great heroes like Odysseus and Hercules.†   (source)
  • I have the wives of Hercules, etc., etc., down pat.†   (source)
  • Dad said he was a greater hero than Hercules or Achilles that the Greeks were always bragging about and he could take on King Arthur and all his knights in a fair fight which, of course, you could never get with an Englishman anyway.†   (source)
  • Aunt Mary lived on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx and ran a factory that made leather trimmings for fur coats, jackets, muffs, hats, and other wearables (Hercules Skivving or Trimming Company).†   (source)
  • Or they'll wear a bolt of it draped over one shoulder in the style of Hercules.†   (source)
  • Hercules.†   (source)
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  • It's in the Hercules Cluster.†   (source)
  • Before he mucked out the Augean stables, Hercules probably carved them in half in his mind, too.†   (source)
  • Awaiting us was the huge C-130 Hercules, a giant turbo-prop freighter.†   (source)
  • On June 17 a small fire occurred in the Cold Storage Building, a castlelike structure at the southwest corner of the grounds built by Hercules Iron Works.†   (source)
  • Langdon had once agreed to take care of Solomon's hundred-fifty-pound mastiff, Hercules, during Solomon's travels.†   (source)
  • He reached over and pulled the letters out of Hercules's hand and pressed them against his own chest.†   (source)
  • A single glance was enough to make him understand that it would take a Hercules to rescue the place from desolation.†   (source)
  • Can't you just picture Hercules' broom sweeping out this cathedral?†   (source)
  • With the purchase of works of art, he was tentative at first, buying only two "small laughing busts," as he recorded, then a plaster statue of Hercules and two portraits that he itemized only as "heads."†   (source)
  • For Rowan students, Elias Bram was Sir Isaac Newton, Hercules, and Merlin rolled into one.†   (source)
  • But the task was more nearly like the labors of Hercules, a succession of varied obstacles.†   (source)
  • They could run Samson and Hercules out of here the same night if they thought they didn't belong here.†   (source)
  • His barbecue obsession began at age sixteen with a trip to Hercules Chicken and Ribs in his hometown of Rochester, New York.†   (source)
  • Slicing cutlets doesn't make a Hercules.†   (source)
  • So astonishing was his physique that another man unabashedly described young Abraham Lincoln as "a cross between Venus and Hercules."†   (source)
  • " "You only did half the labors of Hercules in the last twenty-four hours," said Taleswapper.†   (source)
  • She found her house a stable of filth and abomination and she set to cleaning it with the violence and disgust of a Hercules at labor.†   (source)
  • It would be a labour of Hercules, far beyond me.†   (source)
  • This is a col-lector's item from Hercules Busts Heads.†   (source)
  • Because of that little spat I had with Hercules?†   (source)
  • I'm glad Hercules got a taste of religion."†   (source)
  • I suppose there's room for Hercules and hedgehogs.†   (source)
  • Hercules, Jason-they all got more training.†   (source)
  • Why has the TechnoCore built a replica of Rome in the Hercules Cluster?†   (source)
  • I'd had some idea that I could do this challenge, because I remembered how Hercules had done it.†   (source)
  • I've only been to the Royal Midtown 14 once, and even though I saw Hercules, Toph was there, too.†   (source)
  • Hadn't Odysseus and Hercules risked their lives over and over?†   (source)
  • We sat on the deck, watching the Hercules constellation rise in the night sky.†   (source)
  • He thought of Hercules, fighting the ferocious beasts.†   (source)
  • Hercules, pinned down by a bloodthirsty lion.†   (source)
  • He was on a quest with Hercules to kill the monstrous Hydra, an enormous serpent with nine heads.†   (source)
  • Another time, Hercules wrestled him to the ground.†   (source)
  • Hercules hung us upside down once, you know.†   (source)
  • Annabeth had told me about a monster crab—something about Hercules crushing it under his foot?†   (source)
  • Akhlys's gnarled fingernails dug into Hercules's shield, gouging the metal.†   (source)
  • If that's really Hercules, sailing or flying away wouldn't do any good.†   (source)
  • Years before that, Hercules stole Queen Hippolyta's belt—this belt I'm wearing.†   (source)
  • Tears streamed from her eyes, dripped on the shield of Hercules in her lap.†   (source)
  • "That's time," Hercules said to the others.†   (source)
  • Hazel Levesque is not Hercules or Dionysus, but I think you will find her just as formidable.†   (source)
  • Piper heard Hercules shrieking and struggling somewhere underneath.†   (source)
  • When he and his friends had encountered Hercules at the Straits of Gibraltar, it hadn't gone well.†   (source)
  • Okay, sure, from what Piper said afterward, Hercules was a jerk, but still ….†   (source)
  • "As for you, my dear," Hercules said, "be careful.†   (source)
  • The shield of Hercules rolled away and wobbled to a stop in a patch of poison flowers.†   (source)
  • "But here you are," Hercules said, all friendliness gone.†   (source)
  • Piper wasn't sure what Hercules would do if he were bothered further.†   (source)
  • Hercules waited, as if this information should send them running in terror.†   (source)
  • But whether they put us so close together to punish me or Hercules, I have never been sure.†   (source)
  • From under his robes, Hercules took a small book and tossed it to Piper.†   (source)
  • "So, Lord Hercules," she said, "we're on a quest.†   (source)
  • "Hercules was a jerk," he said, as if reading her thoughts.†   (source)
  • As the island retreated from view, Hercules's head broke above the mound of goodies.†   (source)
  • Hercules glared at the sky accusingly, like he wanted to have words with his father, Zeus.†   (source)
  • Hercules would be angry, but I can protect you from him.†   (source)
  • Then the Romans came along and named me Hercules.†   (source)
  • Hercules will kill—" "Hercules doesn't deserve this."†   (source)
  • "In the old days," Annabeth said, "they called this area the Pillars of Hercules.†   (source)
  • THE HERCULES GUIDE TO THE MARE NOSTRUM didn't help much with snakes and mosquitoes.†   (source)
  • If you had to lie about not giving it to Hercules, well—†   (source)
  • Since they'd left the Pillars of Hercules yesterday evening, Jason had seemed distracted.†   (source)
  • Piper wanted to elbow him, but Hercules looked more amused than annoyed.†   (source)
  • We didn't want to bother you, but Hercules sent us."†   (source)
  • "Not much difference," Hercules grumbled.†   (source)
  • "Well, Achelous will kill you, obviously," Hercules said.†   (source)
  • It's just that Heracles—Hercules—whoever he is, got mad at us and sent us here."†   (source)
  • Hercules is nothing if not image-conscious.†   (source)
  • "You understand nothing," Hercules said coldly.†   (source)
  • "Won't Hercules be on our side?" she asked hopefully.†   (source)
  • The veins on Hercules's neck turned as purple as his robes.†   (source)
  • She was promised to me, until Hercules butted in.†   (source)
  • At least Jason and Hercules have something in common.†   (source)
  • My girl, do you know the cause of my fight with Hercules?†   (source)
  • The title read: The Hercules Guide to the Mare Nostrum.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps that's why he didn't protest when the Romans renamed him Hercules.†   (source)
  • A torrent of fresh fruit, baked goods, and smoked hams completely buried Hercules.†   (source)
  • "Bring me that horn by sundown," Hercules said.†   (source)
  • "Says Hercules fought him one time," Jason offered.†   (source)
  • Hercules was much too wrapped up in his own problems to be a good husband.†   (source)
  • If Hercules doesn't get that horn, he'll kill us and our friends."†   (source)
  • She wondered what Hercules had wanted to tell her about the sons of Zeus.†   (source)
  • And, seeing Hercules again, she felt more certain than ever she couldn't give him what he wanted.†   (source)
  • "I promise I won't let Hercules get the horn!"†   (source)
  • "So anyway," Hercules said, "what's your quest?"†   (source)
  • And," Hercules said, "I want you to break off his other horn and bring it to me."†   (source)
  • She was tempted to send an Iris-message, but Hercules had warned them not to contact their friends.†   (source)
  • Every Greek or Roman hero had sailed these waters—from Hercules to Aeneas.†   (source)
  • And did the purple color mean he was the Roman version of Hercules rather than the Greek?†   (source)
  • Hercules was waiting right where they'd left him.†   (source)
  • Hercules, the most famous demigod of all time, and Percy didn't get to meet him either.†   (source)
  • She became jealous of Hercules's many affairs.†   (source)
  • Hercules didn't deserve a horn of plenty.†   (source)
  • No doubt Hercules would keep the cornucopia for himself.†   (source)
  • Piper wanted to believe that Jason could never go into a murderous frenzy like Hercules had.†   (source)
  • Hercules fixed those brilliant blue eyes on her.†   (source)
  • "You promised Hercules wouldn't get my horn."†   (source)
  • Piper should've been thinking faster, but Hercules had unsettled her.†   (source)
  • Piper pointed the mouth of the horn at Hercules.†   (source)
  • "At any rate," Hercules said, "if you're Jupiter's son, you might understand.†   (source)
  • Hercules fought ninety-nine percent of everything in Ancient Greece.†   (source)
  • "Like I said," Hercules grumbled, "don't believe everything you hear.†   (source)
  • "I can't let Hercules have my other horn.†   (source)
  • "Hercules wants my other horn in order to humiliate me," Achelous said.†   (source)
  • Hercules sounded relayed and easygoing, but lie still made Piper nervous.†   (source)
  • Piper had heard tons of stories about Hercules.†   (source)
  • Hercules stared at her as if she were speaking in Japanese.†   (source)
  • Deianira followed his instructions, but instead of making Hercules a faithful husband—†   (source)
  • Unfortunately Nessus was lying because he wanted revenge on Hercules.†   (source)
  • Hera made him crazy, and Hercules had to do the penance?†   (source)
  • They had to get back to Hercules quickly, or their friends would die.†   (source)
  • Hera had manipulated their relationship, just as she had manipulated Hercules.†   (source)
  • But then I remembered my dream of Zoe and Hercules, and how Hercules had failed in a head-on assault: I decided to trust Zoe's judgment.†   (source)
  • Piper pointed out the constellations she'd been reading about—Hercules, Apollo's lyre, Sagittarius the centaur.†   (source)
  • I'd seen just how mean people could be to each other, like Hercules was to Zoe Nightshade, like Luke was to Thalia.†   (source)
  • Then there're Theseus, Oedipus, Peleus, Orpheus, Jason and Hercules all waiting to be untangled, since their various deeds are running crisscross through my mind like multicolored threads in a dress.†   (source)
  • The coroner immediately convened an inquest, during which a jury heard testimony from Daniel Burnham; Frank Burnham; officials of Hercules Iron Works; and various firemen.†   (source)
  • However, one point was crystalline clear, at least to the six SEALs in that rumbling Hercules high above the Arabian desert.†   (source)
  • Afterward, Hercules and I watched the latest cheesy Christmas movie and made fun of the actors' matching holiday sweaters.†   (source)
  • All she saw were the stick figures she knew—Hercules running across the sky, on his way to kill monsters.†   (source)
  • Sitting opposite me in the Hercules was Senior Chief Daniel Richard Healy, another awesome Navy SEAL, six foot three, thirty-seven, married to Norminda, father of seven children.†   (source)
  • On Tuesday, July 18, the jury charged him, Fire Marshal Murphy, and two Hercules officers with criminal negligence and referred the charges to a grand jury.†   (source)
  • The Hercules Cluster.†   (source)
  • You are nothing like … like Hercules.†   (source)
  • Not Hercules, I hope.†   (source)
  • Few mortals have ever done this and survived: Orpheus, who had great music skill; Hercules, who had great strength; Houdini, who could escape even the depths of Tartarus.†   (source)
  • I was still kind of wondering about the little green snakes he'd shoved into his jogging shorts, but I said, "Uh, I like Hercules.†   (source)
  • I was checking out the constellations Annabeth had taught meSagittarius, Hercules, Corona Borealis-when somebody said, "Beau-tiful, aren't they?†   (source)
  • I had a vague memory of the boar plowing down several Greek cities before Hercules managed to subdue it… I hoped Cloudcroft was insured against giant wild boar attacks.†   (source)
  • He thinks I'd date a guy like Hercules?†   (source)
  • Fireworks exploded to life overhead: Hercules killing the Nemean lion, Artemis chasing the boar, George Washington (who, by the way, was a son of Athena) crossing the Delaware.†   (source)
  • I realized I did know who Zoe's hero had been—the one who'd ruined her life, gotten her kicked out of her family, and never even mentioned how she'd helped him: Hercules, a hero I'd admired all my life.†   (source)
  • Hercules.†   (source)
  • Hercules Busts Heads?†   (source)
  • I'm not Hercules.†   (source)
  • Hercules used noise!†   (source)
  • Hercules did it.†   (source)
  • Hercules?†   (source)
  • Hercules used it!†   (source)
  • So …. these Pillars of Hercules.†   (source)
  • He remembered what Hercules had said to him at the Straits of Gibraltar: It's not easy being a son of Zeus.†   (source)
  • Hercules did that, eons ago.†   (source)
  • Just before disappearing from his horizon, she had slipped him Hercules' broom, and he had used it to sweep everything he despised out of his life.†   (source)
  • "This enterprise is for the young," he wrote to a young Albemarle County neighbor who was freeing his slaves and urged Jefferson to "become a Hercules against slavery."†   (source)
  • Hercules.†   (source)
  • Not even Hercules—†   (source)
  • He has translated Virgil's Aeneid …. the whole of Sallust and Tacitus' Agricola …. a great part of Horace, some of Ovid, and some of Caesar's Commentaries …. besides Tully's [Cicero's] Orations…… In Greek his progress has not been equal; yet he has studiedmorsels of Aristotle's Politics, in Plutarch's Lives, and Lucian's Dialogues, The Choice of Hercules in Xenophon, and lately he has gone through several books in Homer's Iliad.†   (source)
  • But it wasn't easy for Hercules.†   (source)
  • He thought he heard a voice telling him to seize Hercules' broom and sweep all of Marie-Claude's previews, all of Marie-Anne's singers, all lectures and symposia, all useless speeches and vain wordssweep them out of his life.†   (source)
  • Of the six guys gathered around us, only two pulled their knit ski caps up off their faces: the big kid—big in a Hercules kind of way—with ruddy skin and black paint under both eyes, and another one with olive coloring, shaggy brown hair pulled back into a short ponytail.†   (source)
  • I call it the Hercules!†   (source)
  • He thought about those stories his mother used to tell—generations of heroes who had battled Hercules, fought dragons, and sailed monster-infested seas.†   (source)
  • Hercules beat it.†   (source)
  • He felt like a rider galloping off into a magnificent void, a void of no wife, no daughter, no household, the magnificent void swept clean by Hercules' broom, a magnificent void he would fill with his love.†   (source)
  • He died fighting Hercules.†   (source)
  • Even Hercules had trouble!†   (source)
  • When we last met, you had the help of Hercules and Dionysus—the most powerful heroes in the world, both of them destined to become gods.†   (source)
  • I knew you were as smart as Hercules!†   (source)
  • Hercules fought him once.†   (source)
  • As if Hercules knew true misery.†   (source)
  • Hercules.†   (source)
  • Even Hercules.†   (source)
  • The shield of Hercules.†   (source)
  • Instead, she went off with Hercules.†   (source)
  • She wondered if Hercules had ever been as positive as Jason—more upbeat, confident, quick to comfort.†   (source)
  • During the struggle, Hercules broke off one of the river god's horns, which became the first cornucopia."†   (source)
  • Hercules watched them with no particular emotion, as if they were some form of seabird he had never noticed before.†   (source)
  • Here's a tiny reference to Achelous: This river god fought Hercules for the hand of the beautiful Deianira.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Hercules's expression was like the cliffs of Gibraltar—a solid, unforgiving sheet of stone.†   (source)
  • She'd only been able to bury Hercules in groceries when she had concentrated on all her positive experiences with Jason.†   (source)
  • "Hercules is a god now," Achelous said.†   (source)
  • The Hercules Guide to Mare Nostrum.†   (source)
  • Hera had been Hercules's mortal enemy.†   (source)
  • Hercules didn't exactly brighten when he saw Piper carrying the bull's horn, but his scowl lines lessened.†   (source)
  • "That's horribly sad, Lord Hercules.†   (source)
  • Attractions: Hercules and two pillars.†   (source)
  • Jason would never be like Hercules.†   (source)
  • She wasn't going to go along with what Hercules wanted just because he was handsome and strong and scary.†   (source)
  • —that came from the Spanish coat of arms, which showed the Pillars of Hercules with a banner curling between them.†   (source)
  • After all that, they had arrived at the Pillars of Hercules, and Percy had to stay aboard ship while Jason the Big Shot visited his half brother.†   (source)
  • Piper remembered what Hercules had told them: his first family dead, his second wife dead after being tricked into poisoning him.†   (source)
  • Hercules was a bitter, selfish jerk.†   (source)
  • "Hercules married her," Jason said.†   (source)
  • "I'd get going," Hercules said coldly.†   (source)
  • The bull-man spoke with bitterness but familiarity, as if Hercules was an old friend who had lost his way.†   (source)
  • Jason summoned a gale so strong, it pushed them into the sky, while Percy sent a ten-foot-tall wave against the shore, knocking Hercules down a second time, in a cascade of seawater and pineapples.†   (source)
  • She was starting to hate Hercules.†   (source)
  • She described how their team of Greeks and Romans had come together, and how Hercules had thrown a temper tantrum when he found out Hera was behind it.†   (source)
  • After leaving the Pillars of Hercules—unscathed except for a few coconuts lodged in the hull's bronze plating—the ship traveled by air for a few hundred miles.†   (source)
  • Hercules had been a pretty huge disappointment as a big brother, and the old river god Achelous had said some unflattering things about the sons of Jupiter.†   (source)
  • She imagined Coach Hedge getting impatient and aiming a ballista at the man in purple, or eidolons possessing the crew and forcing them to commit suicide-by-Hercules.†   (source)
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