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  • Then do you now model the form of a multitudinous, manyheaded monster, having a ring of heads of all manner of beasts, tame and wild, which he is able to generate and metamorphose at will.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • He should watch over the manyheaded monster like a good husbandman, fostering and cultivating the gentle qualities, and preventing the wild ones from growing; he should be making the lion-heart his ally, and in common care of them all should be uniting the several parts with one another and with himself.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • The avenue is packed with humanity; it is the central organ of the new, manyheaded being.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

  • The mission includes finding Persephone's pearls, defeating Medusa, a manyheaded hydra, shaking away the enticing trap set by the lotus eaters and sundry other snares set by weird and wonderful creatures.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • These self-indulgent manyheaded monsters are now breeding at a faster rate than at any point since theimmediately pre-punk 1970s, and the main enabler and linchpin of this regrettable phenomenon is Homme himself.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

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