seventeen-headed

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Surely it could not be a pleasant thing to a sound divine, just launched upon his seventeen-headed discourse, to have a girl with wild eyes and her hair about her ears start up and exclaim, "Parson, your text is too long," -- or worse yet,

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
"Then, to pay you for your folly in entering my castle, I will make you my slave, and some day, if you're not good, I'll feed you to my seventeen-headed dog.

Twinkle and Chubbins Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland 1887