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  • At the business end of that tentacle beast is a horse-headed monster made of water, with a half-dozen or more crablike claws that slam down on Kratos.

    GoW 3 Preview | CurveHouse.com 2010

  • Its inhabitants now include a stork-headed castle steward named Rackman, the mysterious sister Peace, a horse-headed knight, and demons, brownies, goblins, and ghosts, among others.

    Castle Waiting by Linda Medley 2008

  • Everybody was looking funny and saying “Kzar” in sort of a sick way and them pounding nearer down the stretch, and then something came out of the pack right into my glasses like a horse-headed yellow streak and everybody began to yell “Kzar” as though they were crazy.

    The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953

  • But the monstrous forms which we find in Egypt and Mesopotamia as embodiments of divine power were alien to the Greek imagination; if we find here and there a survival of some strange type, such as the horse-headed Demeter at Phigalia, it remains isolated and has little influence upon prevalent beliefs.

    Religion and Art in Ancient Greece Ernest Arthur Gardner

  • The horse-headed Demeter of Phigalia remains the strange and solitary exception, however we may explain her existence.

    Religion and Art in Ancient Greece Ernest Arthur Gardner

  • Hence the monument of the Bato [u] (horse-headed) Kwannon, which long stood on its mound behind the _hondo [u] _ of the Seisho [u] ji of Shiba.

    Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

  • "With having tried to rob the treasure castle, Your Majesty," replied one of the horse-headed servitors in a firm, stable tone.

    The Firelight Fairy Book Henry Beston 1928

  • Then they passed through the dwellings of the horse-headed and vulture-headed giants -- monsters terrible to see.

    Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

  • Towards morning the twanging of a string proclaimed the arrival of a querulous-faced minstrel with a sort of embryonic one-stringed horse-headed fiddle, and after a brief parley singing began, a long high-pitched solo.

    The Research Magnificent 1906

  • Baxter had taken me a room communicating with his own, and after lunch introduced me to a tall, horse-headed elderly lady of decided manners, whom a white-haired maid pushed along in a bath-chair through the park-like grounds of the Hydro.

    Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900

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