manticore

How To Use manticore In A Sentence

• Saladin discovers that his fellow inmates have been transformed into beasts - water buffaloes, snakes, manticores.
• Manticores, unicorns, and griffins are just a sampling of what I have seen.
• ‘The way was guarded by lions and chimeras and manticores and logicians and other ferocious beasts,’ says Giblets.
• Perhaps it's the Unicorn's very ability to resist such temptation, that's kept our numbers down, but like the manticore and the chimera I have great reasons to suspect the propriety of some of my ancestors.
• The girl shares her stories with the enthralled young heir to the Sultanate, who returns again and again to hear incredible yarns about one-armed heroes, hunchbacked ferrymen, giants, voracious gem eaters, conniving hedgehogs, harpies, djinns and singing Manticores. Descent Into Cleveland
• It could also be a minotaur, or a manticore, in which case, might it come this way? A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
• One had skulls - apparently from mythical beasts such as unicorns, manticores, and other creatures; while another stand had large wooden pipes, each one trembling slightly.
• Historically, too, medieval mapmakers and geographers filled unknown regions with such beasties: centaurs, mermaids, manticores and Tartary lambs.
• They had seen a manticore and two trolls, though at a distance, and had been much troubled at the sightings. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
• Historically, too, medieval mapmakers and geographers filled unknown regions with such beasties: centaurs, mermaids, manticores and Tartary lambs.