A harpy is a nightmare image out of Greek Mythology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Matalin Defends Coulter’s Attack on 9/11 Widows] Reference

Marge, at this point, exhausted and slightly disoriented, said, "Who are you calling a harpy?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann Coulter and Fred Phelps Announce Engagement] Reference

A harpy is a vicious monster hybrid of bird and lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 August | Scary For Kids] Reference

It seems that Harridan "harpy" Harperson has been running around.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil's Kitchen] Reference

I've also seen how those who speak up on every little thing have become "harpy" and unlistened too.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

He wants to be around that silicone-stuffed harpy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Boobiac Strikes Back!] Reference

"She was tired but not weak," the harpy screeched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isle of View]

"If that Lordkin harpy won't give it to me, I'll -".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burning City]

He struck at the harpy, scaring her off for the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

The harpy laughed so hard she almost fell from her perch.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

"Now you'll get it, argus," the harpy screeched gleefully.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

“Is that the one who shot me?” said the closest harpy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dirty Job HTML]

"You will have to discuss that with Trolla," the harpy said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Source of Magic]

A birdlike thing perched there, possibly a variety of harpy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

Whandall went to a dead harpy and turned him over with a foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burning City]

"You have a vegetable head?" the harpy retorted in a fluting tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Source of Magic]

No wonder Woody Allen dumped that harpy -- Mia, I mean, not Naomi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Brenner: Rosemary's Anchor Baby] Reference

Next day he traveled north again, and there was no sign of the harpy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

She was almost as ugly as the harpy, but she too was amazingly polite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Source of Magic]

Hannah's voice screeched, sounding like someone else, possibly a harpy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pet Peeve]

Then he drew the sword from the cane and turned to the harpy from the alley.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dirty Job HTML]

It was a harpy, cousin to the one he had met on the way back to the North Village.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

He had never heard of a harpy acting polite, so remained on guard, hand over sword.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Source of Magic]

A grizzled old harpy flapped out to meet the party as it reached the foot of the path.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Source of Magic]

The harpy finally gave up her chase; she dared not come within range of a centaur bow.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

A man who stepped around a venom mouse could be overlooking a harpy on the other side.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

But it was only a harpy, one of the dirty-bodied dirty-mouthed birds of the wilderness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isle of View]

She spread her wings and took off, her backdraft smelling awful, in the typical harpy way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isle of View]

No more need to propitiate the second-floor harpy in case she were needed to answer that bell.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mind to Murder]

Villiers or Lucy Walters or Louise de Keroualle, she was neither a harpy nor a foe to England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

After the magic drink, he would have loved a harpy; it wouldn't have mattered how foul she was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Source of Magic]

He hiked all day, passing the brook where to drink was to become a fish - "Have a drink, harpy!".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

"Suppose he had drunk from a love spring, accidentally-and the next to drink there was a harpy?".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

They lost obnoxious harpy; they need to fill obnoxious harpy slot, and they ` re going to do that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 31, 2007] Reference

He had evidently flown swiftly, gaining on the clumsy harpy, and had a significantly later report.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isle of View]