Lexicographical Neighbors of Herculeses
Literary usage of Herculeses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bible Defence of Slavery: And Origin, Fortunes, and History of the Negro Race by Josiah Priest (1852)
"... fatal to the Veracity of the Scriptures—Hercules—Was Nimrod the grandson of
Noah, and the origin of all the fabled herculeses of all the early nations- ..."
2. The Comedies of Aristophanes by Aristophanes, W. J. Hickie (1853)
"... he alone of men made his rivals cease always scoffing at the rags and warring
with the lice ; and he first drove off with contempt the baking herculeses ..."
3. The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1884)
"We paid it, too, for we were purposely spread Very far apart over the vast side
of the Pyramid. There was no help near if we called, and the herculeses who ..."
4. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"There was no help near if we called, and the herculeses who dragged us had a way
of asking sweetly and flatteringly for ..."
5. Lectures on the Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"... they are conditioned by the particular consciousness and circumstances of the
countries in which they appear. There are a multitude of herculeses and ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Now and then they rose to greater heights, becoming herculeses, Vulcans, M arses
and the like. Punch was firmly Gladstonian in its politics; and therefore ..."
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