 | James Orange - 1840 - 534 pages
...representation of the divinely appointed cherubim. To what else can be imputed the origin of the griffin, with the head and wings of an eagle, and the body of a lion, but a corruption of two of the figures of the cherubim ? From this the idea was borrowed of the flying... | |
 | Nicholson Museum - Archaeological museums and collections - 1870 - 128 pages
...Above the projecting ears, on the front of the vessel, is a representation of an imaginary animal with the head and wings of an eagle, and the body of a lion. 727. A SIMILAR DRINKING CUP, (Rhyton) terminating at the base in a ram's head. On the front is a male... | |
 | Moritz Mark Fischel - 1880 - 314 pages
...hadst met there the Duke together with his young sons; see E. 164. 2) Griffin, a fabulous animal with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion. 3) Find the Infinitives of all the verbs in this sentence. 4) may be merciful. 5) those. 6) put at... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Fairy tales - 1884 - 216 pages
...ago, and been whelmed by the dread blue rocks, beneath the fierce swell of the Euxme ! Bet1 Monsters having the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion. 2 The Ural mountains(?). 3 The Baltic (?). 4 A mythical people, not to be confounded with the Cimmerians... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Mythology, Greek - 1888 - 234 pages
...ago, and been whelmed by the dread blue rocks, beneath the fierce swell of the Euxine ! Bet1 Monsters having the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion. 2 The Ural mountains(?). 3 The Baltic (?). ter so, than to wander forever, disgraced by the guilt of... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1966 - 952 pages
...the relatively harmless provision 22 The griffin, in Greek mythology, was a fabulous monster, usually having the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion. recommended. Far reaching language not considered by the parties has been injected. The leasing provisions,... | |
 | Chautauquas - 1890 - 798 pages
...griffin is the Uunmergtyer (lamb vulture). The same name is given to a mythological animal represented as having the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion. " Dodo " is the name of an extinct bird of large size, which was found on the Mauritius Island in the... | |
 | William Henry Chandler - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 600 pages
...imprisoned from 1676. Griffln. Composite animal of classical mythology, having ^_^___^^^_^__^__^^^_ the head and wings of an eagle ~ and the body of a lion, believed to have been borrowed by the Greeks from Asia. It appears upon Babylonian monuments, and is... | |
 | A. M. Cruickshank - Cities and towns - 1901 - 578 pages
...times. A large marble sarcophagus has on the end a fine relief of a griffin. This composite animal, with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion, is a common figure in Etruscan sculpture. Griffins were placed upon urns and sarcophagi and at the... | |
 | Scotland - 1904 - 1126 pages
...coat of arms it has been quite superseded by its first cousin, the griffin. This monster, which has the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion, and is supposed to combine the strength and valour of both, can lay claim to an extremely ancient origin... | |
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variant of griffin." Griffin: "a fabulous beast with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion. 
