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
"She was tired but not weak," the harpy screeched. From Wordnik.com. [Isle of View]
He wants to be around that silicone-stuffed harpy. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Boobiac Strikes Back!] Reference
"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]
A birdlike thing perched there, possibly a variety of harpy. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
"You will have to discuss that with Trolla," the harpy said. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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
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]
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]
"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]
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]
He had evidently flown swiftly, gaining on the clumsy harpy, and had a significantly later report. From Wordnik.com. [Isle of View]
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
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