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Definition of Gryfons
1. gryfon [n] - See also: gryfon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gryfons
Literary usage of Gryfons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1818)
"Beares, gryfons, tygers, lyons, rampant soche (51) [they sera? In forme; with
foregn blood yet swell. Bursting amaine (52), and 1 ..."
2. History of the Pacific States of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Henry Lebbeus Oak, Frances Fuller Victor, Alfred Bates (1890)
"... they could see only gold, and waste their lives quarrelling with the gryfons
that guarded it. From this absorbing mania sprang a number of others. ..."
3. The Editor's Introduction ; Reader's Guide ; Index to the First Lines of by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... 184 and note 55; and gryfons, iv, 134-9; Plutarch on, xu, 256 Arioch, in
PARADISE LOST, iv, 216 Ariosto, Lodovic, Cervantes on, xiv, 53; Dryden on, ..."
4. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1890)
"... they could see only gold, and waste their lives quarrelling with the gryfons
that guarded it. From this absorbing mania sprang a number of others. ..."
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