Briareus

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Briareus

(braɪˈɛərɪəs)
n
(Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans
Briˈarean adj
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In the triangle of bright outer sunlight I saw the Martian, in its Briareus of a handling-machine, scrutinizing the curate's head.
A slight breeze at this moment sprang up, and the great sails began to move, seeing which Don Quixote exclaimed, "Though ye flourish more arms than the giant Briareus, ye have to reckon with me."
The poets feign, that the rest of the gods would have bound Jupiter; which he hearing of, by the counsel of Pallas, sent for Briareus, with his hundred hands, to come in to his aid.
It was you, goddess, who delivered him by calling to Olympus the hundred-handed monster whom gods call Briareus, but men Aegaeon, for he is stronger even than his father; when therefore he took his seat all-glorious beside the son of Saturn, the other gods were afraid, and did not bind him.
When he was half way across, the uprooted tree(which I have already told you about) broke loose from among the rocks, and bore down upon him, with all its splintered branches sticking out like the hundred arms of the giant Briareus. It rushed past, however, without touching him.
Besides, if they had been like the hundred-armed Briareus, the brave Argonauts would have given them their hands full of fight.
"We have had some good ones in the past, like Scorned, Briareus and Distant Prospect, but I think I only had a bumper winner last year.
El tiempo de registro promedio del CC de las 8 parejas de Enteroctopus megalocyathus (75 [+ o -] 19 min) puede ser comparable con el tiempo registrado en la misma actividad con otras especies de pulpos como Octopus briareus (55 [+ o -] 25 min) e inclusive con el tiempo registrado por el calamar Euprymna scolopes (52,5 [+ o -] 27,5 min).
And Briareus, a horse that's no star, was still close up when he crashed at the last.
1-3 Master Minded, 10 Big Zeb, 14 Petit Robin, 16 Tidal Bay, 16 Well Chief, 16 Twist Magic, 20 Briareus, 66 bar
There are plenty of other markets for the Champion Chase including betting without andI pick BRIAREUS who ran such a stormer to be fourth in the King George.
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