How To Use Hercules In A Sentence

Hercules ropes are pre-formed, to minimize unlaying and its resultant cost during further fabrication
And yes, for those who have always wondered, penguin tipping from a hercules is both easy, harmless, and amusing. Development Opportunities « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Oh!" replied Spicer, who had heard of Sir Hercules and his lady, "so the _lady_ sent it to you? Poor Jack
On the upper shelf is the figure of Hercules after the statue in the Palazzo Farnese.
There must be some place for warmth in this cold world, she thought, and watched the fireflies dance around a moss-grown statue of Hercules.

A bronze figure of Hercules supports an ormolu bowl surmounted by a triple row of plumes, from which rise the three candle branches.
Nessus, a centaur, offered to help Hercules get Deianira across the river.
Hercules’ pillars in a warm benefice, to be easily inclinable, if he have nothing else that may rouse up his studies, to finish his circuit in an English Concordance and a topic folio, the gatherings and savings of a sober graduateship, a Harmony and a Areopagitica
The tamer and subduer of monsters and tyrants, Hercules (vanquished by the snares of loue), did not he handle the distaffe in stead of his mightie mace? The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
The biceps of Hercules was a puny affair when he rolled about in swaddling-clothes. Jack London: On the Writer's Philosophy of Life
He was smooth and rosy-skinned, cherubic-faced, with a thatch of curly yellow hair, but his body was as hugely thewed as a Hercules.
Between the hall and chancel, fronting the great castle gate, was a large chamber, with several rooms, and a cloyster under it, pulled down A.D. 1700; for which, when standing, in the reign of King Henry VIII., there was one suit of hangings of the story of Hercules; which are supposed to be those still remaining at the seat of Lord Howard, of Walden. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 575, November 10, 1832
Â Hercules taunts Thor that he needs to “live up” to the legacy of Hercules, and Thor responds with a nard shot worthy of Ric Flair himself, followed by a wedgie of steel. Review: Incredible Hercules #136 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
The centerpiece depicts the empress enthroned under a baldachin and surrounded by figures of Hercules, Minerva, Mars, and other gods celebrating her military achievements.
Crowds gasped as the team of seven leapt from a droning Hercules 3,000 feet above them, while youngsters rushed for autographs from the jumping daredevils.
Strive not to run, like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
First, Faauma — the bronze candlestick, whom otherwise I called my butler — bolted from the bed and bosom of Lafaele, the Archangel Hercules, prefect of the cattle. Vailima Letters
Hercules served Omphale, put on an apron, took a distaff and spun; Thraso the soldier was so submissive to Anatomy of Melancholy
Atlás tamen postulávit ut, dum ipse abesset, Herculés caelum umerís sustinéret. Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader
Hercules killed the animal by choking it with his bare hands and thereafter wore its skin.
The region thus engulfed was beyond Europe, Asia, and Lybia, beyond the columns of Hercules, where those powerful people, the Atlantides, lived, against whom the first wars of ancient Greeks were waged. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The smith is a brawny native Maltese, with a form a Hercules might envy. Miss Caprice
Like the myth of Hercules, the legend of Samson is a tale recounted in many cultures.
Some works are examined thematically, such as his Madonnas, Allegories, the lost Leda and the Swan, and recently discovered sketches for the unexecuted sculpture Hercules.
{164} Hercules, in mythology, fell in love with Omphale, giving her the leverage to order him to yet more labors besides the famous Twelve which he had just completed. Defence of Poesie
For two hours, they're packed together as the Hercules fly low above the make believe battle zone.
Since his picture of Hercules was so small (17 c [m.sup.2]), Raphael may have painted them for his patron as a parodic verso.
At present, Canada possesses an aging fleet of C - 130 Hercules tactical transports and five converted Airbuses, which we often misemploy as strategic load carriers.
Ceuta, which bears the modern English name of Apes 'Hill, was then designated Abyla; and Calpe and Abyla, at least according to an ancient and widely current interpretation, formed the renowned pillars of Hercules (Herculis columnæ), which for centuries were the limits of enterprise to the seafaring peoples of the Mediterranean world. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
They also added super jumpoff Black Widow (who served as team leader), Hercules and Ghost Rider to their ranks (as well as a few other low level heroes) and fought supervillians based out of Los Angeles. Even More Slept On Comic Book Titles AKA Yet Another Poisonous Paragraphs Special Comic Book Nerd Edition
Read in studio A new theory has emerged tonight about the possible cause of the Hercules crash in which nine airmen died.
One does not, however, use Hercules gut for nothing; the log was travelling swiftly, and I ventured to clap my rod-top down to and under the surface, thus saving my tackle, and being presently able to land and gaff my 10-lb. fresh-run salmon without risk or hurry. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
The first half hour, visually ‘influenced’ by Fellowship of the Ring, is so poorly written it stinks like an episode of Hercules with an extra $14 in the budget.
2. a Thracian king who fed his wild mares on human flesh and was himself fed to them by Hercules. FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
Read in studio A new theory has emerged tonight about the possible cause of the Hercules crash in which nine airmen died.
The fabular relations of the poets are so careful of decorum, that they never leave a Hercules destitute of necessaries; but those still spring, as out of some fountain, as well for him as for his companions. Essays and Miscellanies
Iphicles screamed and tried to get out of bed, but Hercules sat up and grasped the deadly creatures by the throat.
Hercules, Doric order appropriate to, 15; site of temple of, 31; cellae of temple of, 53; The Ten Books on Architecture
Pindarus, of Thebes, is as much renowned for his poems, as Epaminondas, Pelopidas, Hercules or Bacchus, his fellow citizens, for their warlike actions; et si famam respicias, non pauciores Aristotelis quam Anatomy of Melancholy
The arrival of a U.S. colonel and his aides in Hercules C130 military transport planes, however, proved to be a raging success.
Hercules was the son of Zeus, who made the night last fortyeight hours in order to ` mak 'siccar'; Romulus and Remus were sons of Mars; Alexander of Apollo and so on. The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - UFO Section 1
But would you not hold it expedient, before we proceed any further, that we should invocate Hercules and the Tenetian goddesses who in the chamber of lots are said to rule, sit in judgment, and bear a presidential sway? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Lifeline Sudan flies in Hercules in broad circles over the area days before food drops.
Like the visage on the ancient statues of Hercules, the physiognomy of the hulky Bernese was large and massive, having an air of indifferent and almost sullen composure, which did not change but in moments of the fiercest agitation. Anne of Geierstein
He'd begun to slim down just before he was cast in Hercules and had to quickly put that process into reverse.
The Lady Filomena had lost her voice and Sir Hercules was grown too rheumatical to play the violin. Crome Yellow
The trick fountains were planned by the landgraves from 1696 onwards, in 1700 landgrave Karl met the master builder in Italy, the Hercules figure was erected on the mountain top's pyramid in 1713.
That of Faunus was in celebration of his adventure with Hercules and Omphale, when that god, being enamored of Omphale, mistook the bed of Hercules for that of his mistress. A Philosophical Dictionary
CONSECRATE THE DELPHINIUM TO TITUS AND TO HERCULES; and what is yet more remarkable, even in our time, a priest of Titus was formally elected and declared; and after sacrifice and libation, they sang a set song, of which these are the closing verses: -- The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls
Elsewhere, ancient Greek boars gallop up Mount Erymanthus pursued by Hercules or charge about Calydon until felled by Meleager and Atalanta. Stalking the Beast
The Hercules carried out vital wartime duties in the Falklands and the Gulf.
Hercules, after killing his family in a fit of rage, was cursed to perform twelve impossible labors.
Lastly, Hercules was not content with the loves of Omphale and Dejanira, he also loved the beautiful Hylas, who was brought up by the nymphs. Satyricon
Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is? how giddily he turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty? sometime fashioning them like Pharaohs soldiers in the reechy painting; sometime like god Bels priests in the old church-window; sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry, where his cod-piece seems as massy as his club? Act III. Scene III. Much Ado about Nothing
THE PEOPLE CONSECRATE THE DELPHINIUM TO TITUS AND TO HERCULES; and what is yet more, even in our time, a priest of Titus was formally elected and declared; and after sacrifice and libation, they sing a set song, much of which for the length of it we omit, but shall transcribe the closing verses: — The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Hercules left the expedition when his cup-bearer was taken by a nymph.
Extracted proteins (10 µl) were spotted, in quintuplicate, on nitrocellulose membranes (Bio-Rad, Hercules CA-USA). PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Herakles aka Hercules in Roman mythology was born at the Winter Solstice, sacrificed at the Spring Equinox, rose again and ascended into heaven to be with his divine father. Archive 2009-12-01
Elsewhere, ancient Greek boars gallop up Mount Erymanthus pursued by Hercules or charge about Calydon until felled by Meleager and Atalanta. Stalking the Beast
Like the myth of Hercules, the legend of Samson is a tale recounted in many cultures.
Army parachutists drop into the ocean from a C - 130 Hercules as part of Exercise Swift Eagle.
Everyone who crews a 36SQN Hercules - the pilots, navigator, flight engineer and loadmasters - all do the course at some point, and they're not allowed to fly tactical operations until they do.
Unless you were blessed with the power of Hercules, it's quite obvious you can't turn the ring with your bare hands.
Casualty evacuation helicopters and Hercules transport aircraft are also said to be in short supply. Times, Sunday Times
As the son of Chronos and the ocean nymph Philyra he was immortal, but he received a terrible, poisonous wound from an arrow which was shot (in error) by Hercules.
Strive not to run like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness. Christian Morals
Opus igitur quod Eurystheus Herculí imperáverat erat summae difficultátis, nón modo ob causás quás memorávimus, sed etiam quod Herculés omnínó ígnórábat quó in locó hortus ille situs esset. Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader
Abyla to the eminence in Africa on the opposite side of the strait, and both of these eminences formed the renowned Pillars of Hercules. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
The path of voluptas led to earthly pleasure, while the road of virtue, which Hercules preferred, gave him ‘a place in the council of gods.’
Hercules drinks from an enchanted spring, loses his memory, and shacks up with the beautiful but evil Queen Omphale. I Did This So You Don’t Have To – Part 4 « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…
This statue is a representation of Hercules.
He sacrificed to Zeus the Soter “savior”—the same Greek word Christians would later use for Christ, to his ancestor Hercules, and to the local god personifying the Danube, who had allowed him safe passage across his waters. Alexander the Great
The waggoner threw down his whip. He knelt down and prayed to Hercules.
Normally, the pilot would have been on board before the ship ran aground 100 yards off the Tower of Hercules navigation light.
Hercules, the graphics board specialist, has opened a dedicated Web site for system builders.
Hercules Group is fully computerized to monitor its finances, resources and management.
What do you think happened to Hercules when Xena and Gabrielle awakened from a 25-year ice sleep? Hercules Xena | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
Designed for C-130 Hercules low-velocity air drop (LVAD) and airland roll-on/roll-off, the M8 WN.com - Business News
The name Rea Silvia is ancient, but Rea is only a surname: _rea femmina_ often occurs in Boccaccio, and is used to this day in Tuscany to designate a woman whose reputation is blighted; a priestess Rea is described by Vergil as having been overpowered by Hercules. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
On its obverse side is the image of two worlds between two columns, representing the Pillars of Hercules.
The Hercules aircraft has been the workhorse of the airforce for over 25 years.
Know that I am lolaus, once the companion of Hercules; for this body is not unrenowned. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
Giant Hercules transport aircraft were touching down at Aldergrove Airport every few minutes.
Hercules and Love Affair Blue Song Not as immediate as Blind, but this torchy title track shows the new Hercules and Love Affair album at its best. F&M playlist
Voice over More recently the Hercules has again headed for a battle zone.
His speech was followed by an uproar of applause, as its patriotism and self-devotion unquestionably deserved; and the shouts and clapping of hands would have been greatly prolonged, had they not been rendered quite inaudible by a deep respiration, vulgarly called a snore, from the sleeping Hercules. Tanglewood Tales
These products were disseminated by hand and by airdrops from US Hercules.
Hades in the meantime is furious and very frustrated with his lack of progress until he finds the only weakness Hercules has – his love for Meg. Hercules Set | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
He flew about 20 hazardous missions on board a Hercules aircraft, transporting men and equipment behind enemy lines.
The overmantel in the Small Drawing-Room at Levens Hall in Cumbria, for example, is supported by a pair of full-length figures, dating from the Tudor period, representing Samson to the left and Hercules to the right of the fireplace.
The helpful Mr Beach rounds off a most informative dispatch by revealing that the Dutch side Heracles Almelo, Greek club Iraklis of Salonica and recently-relegated Spanish minnows Hércules Alicante are all named after the demi-god son of the father of gods and men, Zeus. Which teams are named after fictional characters? | The Knowledge | Barry Glendenning
Normally, the pilot would have been on board before the ship ran aground 100 yards off the Tower of Hercules navigation light.
Colonel Leite, from Manaus 'Regional Air Force Command, said two Hercules cargo planes had ferried around 830 tons of food aid to isolated regions near the Amazon towns of Tefe and Tabatinga. Drought brings Amazon tributary to lowest level in a century
It and the peak Abyla, on the opposite (African) coast, were styled by the Greeks, in their poetical language, "the pillars of Hercules;" whilst the strait between is said to have been executed by the same man of muscle, to wile away the tedium of an idle hour. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
This is the standout track from the Hercules album. The Sun
Using two barges, The Wimbrown VII and the Hercules as their operating Bases, SEALs patrolled the sea searching for minelayers thought to be illegally mining the local waters.
[2137] Hercules de Saxonia calls this kind of melancholy (ab agitatione spirituum) by a peculiar name, it comes from the agitation, motion, contraction, dilatation of spirits, not from any distemperature of humours, and produceth strong effects. Anatomy of Melancholy
‘Hercules’ boats are constructed with Valmex 1000 gr/m2 and their parts are cold-welded, for more durability against time.
Filomena had lost her voice and Sir Hercules was grown too rheumatical to play the violin. Crome Yellow
Pillars of Hercules, forayed the Mediterranean, and sat in the high place of government over the soft sun-warm peoples. CHAPTER XXXIV
Gros's last picture, Hercules and Diomedes, a tribute to David, was very badly received by the critics.
One step farther, and Theobald would have discovered the true solution: he only required to know that _the shoes_, by a figure of rhetoric called synecdoche, may stand for the whole character and attributes of Hercules, to have saved himself the trouble of conjecturing an ingenious, though infinitely worse word, as a substitute. Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Slightly higher sandy areas are covered by shrub thicket characterized by wax myrtle, silverling, red cedar, yaupon and Hercules 'club. North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve
Britannia, or her genius in the usual habiliment, a scroll — she appeared seated and behind her a figure of Hercules, emblematic of the great work so completely and speedily performed: above Fame appeared with a medallion of his Lordship and in the background a perspective view of Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta
Hercules not yet furibund, -- he is an esurient, unprovided Advocate. The French Revolution
This is the standout track from the Hercules album. The Sun
Nine RAF personnel and one soldier died when their Hercules transport plane was hit by ground-to-air fire, causing an explosion in one of its fuel tanks.
Far from being an example of radiant perfection handing down instructions from Mount Sinai about how we should lead our moral lives, Zeus is the embodiment of raunchy behavior, seducing the mortal Alcmena, for example, by pretending to be her husband (thus producing Hercules), and raping Leda in the shape of a swan (thus producing Helen and Polydeuces) -- even having a brief fling with his gay torchbearer, Ganymede. Robert Brustein: Monotonous Monotheism
He was awarded his pilot's wings in 1993 and joined the Hercules fleet in 1995.
Strive not to run, like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
A Hercules aircraft honed in on the boat's locator beacon and an oil tanker eventually launched a lifeboat to rescue the man.
Casualty evacuation helicopters and Hercules transport aircraft are also said to be in short supply. Times, Sunday Times
This statue is a representation of Hercules.
The unconquered Hercules himself, since you despise my instances as drawn from mere mendicancy, Hercules that roamed the whole world, exterminated monsters, and conquered races, god though he was, had but a skin for raiment and a staff for company in the days when he wandered through the earth. The Defense
He trusts women no more than he trusts alcohol; both represent the threat of loss of male control so aptly represented in the recurrent image of Hercules spinning for Omphale. Shakespeare
In Africa the poet introduces Curio inquiring after the story of Hercules and Antaeus, which is recounted to him by one of the natives, and after - wards relates the particulars of his being circumvented, de - feated, and killed by Juba. The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets
Concerning the commitment of Dutch helicopters, fighter-bombers and also the four-engined Hercules transport plane, the allies only have praise. Afstan: Dutch CDS says Netherlands troops should leave in 2008
Two lifeboats, a rescue helicopter, an RAF Hercules plane and two Navy war ships spent 30 hours scouring the seas and coast but his body was never found.
Kembali Pesawat TNI jatuh padahal belum lama tragedi Hercules berlalu. Global Voices in English » Indonesia: Deteriorating Primary Defense Weapon System
Pentelicus; at Patras, the cellae of the temple of Jupiter and Hercules, which are brick, although on the outside the entablature and columns of the temple are of stone; in Italy, at Arezzo, an ancient wall excellently built; at Tralles, the house built for the kings of the dynasty of Attalus, which is now always granted to the man who holds the state priesthood. The Ten Books on Architecture
For transport, the air force has thirty-two turboprop CC - 130 Hercules aircraft.
Normally, the pilot would have been on board before the ship ran aground 100 yards off the Tower of Hercules navigation light.
Hí tantá ví cecidérunt ut mágnum numerum Ligurum occíderint; ipse tamen Herculés (ut in tálibus rébus accidere cónsuévit) nihil incommodí cépit. Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader
At the further end is the mezzo-relievo of Hercules and the Centaurs, a subject which was suggested by Politian, and executed by Michael Angelo with so much ability as to astonish all who beheld so near an approach to the antique.
Tonight is the peak of the northern Draconid meteor shower, whose radiant is near the westering constellation of Hercules. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast – October 9-11, 2009 | Universe Today
As the son of Chronos and the ocean nymph Philyra he was immortal, but he received a terrible, poisonous wound from an arrow which was shot (in error) by Hercules.
Du Tertre-Jouan was nearly six feet high, and afraid of nobody -- a kind of clodhopping young rustic Hercules, and had proved his mettle quite recently -- when a brutal usher, whom I will call Monsieur The Martian
He was posted directly to RAF Lyneham to join the Hercules fleet.
Hydra was slain by Hercules
The Hercules aircraft used by the RAAF are slow by modern standards, but the big four prop engine planes are reliable workhorses used, of course, the world over.
As donor of the heifer and celebrant of the public feast, Sulla bent to catch some of the blood in the skyphos, a special vessel belonging to Hercules. Fortune's Favorites
For a comedy show paying homage to Hercules, of course. The Sun
A Liger named Hercules (his pic is also in the wiki article) makes regular appearances at King Richard's Faire in Massachusetts. My Own (Borrowed) Menagerie
Hercules in Love" is an opera by Francesco Cavalli with ballet intermezzi by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Time Off: Cultural Events Around Europe
The ancient Romans believed that the first lily grew from milk spilt from the breasts of the goddess Juno as she nursed the infant Hercules.
The centerpiece depicts the empress enthroned under a baldachin and surrounded by figures of Hercules, Minerva, Mars, and other gods celebrating her military achievements.
The bull swam with her out to sea, some say across the Pillars of Hercules to the shore of Southern Spain, others to Crete, where later she gave birth to Minos and Rhadamanthus, ruler of Elysium where the Shades go after death.
The primary aircraft used for the aeromedical evacuation mission are the C - 141 Starlifter and C - 130 Hercules.
Hercules de Saxonia and Thomas Minadous, in 1610, speak of plica as a disease already long known. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Visconti thinks they may have been the _avis Sanqualis_ or _ossifraga_, and the club of Hercules. Pagan and Christian Rome
Hercules emulation generates non-maskable interrupts which conflict with OS/2 initialization. AST Research Technical Bulletin #0603A INSTALLING AST 3G PRODUCTS WITH OS/2 EXTENDED EDITION
Next were two Air Force Hercules followed by two flights of Hornets, four in each flight.
Strive not to run like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness. Christian Morals
Currently, when I think of the Conservative Party of today, I am reminded of Achelous after the defeat by Hercules. Today
For a comedy show paying homage to Hercules, of course. The Sun

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