herculean exertions. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A herculean task. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Bring on Braniac or someone like Bizarro that the Big Blue Boyscout can wreck whole cities with while engaged in herculean fisticuffs. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Nolan Talks Superman: “We Know the Genre and How to Get it Done Right”; Jonathan Nolan at Work on Batman 3 | /Film] Reference
I can recall the herculean work we had performed to perfect this play. From Wordnik.com. [Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball] Reference
But it also allows her to gain "herculean" strength and agility. From Wordnik.com. [What I bought – 30 April 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
Mr. Sorsby said Mr. Hovanian was "herculean" helping the company repay debt and keep cash flowing. From Wordnik.com. [Season for CEO Reckoning] Reference
Starkewolf said a "herculean" effort is needed in order to push for renewable energy. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Great Park Chairman Larry Agransays Gafcon played a "herculean" role in the hectic, early days of Great Park design. From Wordnik.com. [Brownsville Herald :] Reference
He described the courting as "herculean" given the recession and the decision by Target to re-evaluate all new store openings. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
"herculean" has brought the warring parties back to the table and a revised version of an existing plan for the peace process. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Even to begin the job has taken a herculean effort. From Wordnik.com. [To Rise From The Ashes] Reference
To merely list his accomplishments is a herculean chore. From Wordnik.com. [Learning To Like Lyndon] Reference
Hiram Sanders, the herculean blacksmith, was their leader. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
Senate, against the herculean efforts of Caleb Cushing and Henry A. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
On the first day of competition alone, he'll do a herculean 11 hours. From Wordnik.com. [Anchor To The World] Reference
Eisner's labors will be herculean; it hurts just to think about them. From Wordnik.com. [Of Mice And Men] Reference
The old and young, rich and poor, feeble and herculean, all played it. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
By a herculean effort he restrained his feelings, and answered lightly. From Wordnik.com. [An American Suffragette] Reference
The task, at first sight, may seem herculean; but is not so in reality. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
This keeper, himself a burly, herculean soldier, promptly closed with the prisoner. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
But the task is vast, it is herculean, like unto the cleaning of the Augean stables. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
The hands of the other worked impatiently; his herculean figure blocked the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
It was a herculean task at which men and mules and horses toiled on far into the night. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
The task seemed herculean, and every effort to ascend the ramparts met with certain death. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
The regime's herculean transformation of its blighted capital city will no doubt awe visitors. From Wordnik.com. [The Editor’s Desk] Reference
In fact she was sadly disappointed in women's response to the herculean effort she was making for them. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
The Saras are remarkable for their herculean stature, and are one of the most promising of African races. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
It is difficult to realise how such a herculean task would have been carried out with safety to the fabric. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
As simple as creating simple recipes might seem, for a perfectionist like Portale the effort was herculean. From Wordnik.com. [KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID] Reference
We may hope that even this mild demonstration did something to hearten the promoters in their herculean task. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway] Reference
As if suddenly invested with herculean strength, Maria hurls the ruffian from her, and lays him prostrate on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Undismayed he bowed to his herculean task with a complacency and courage worthy of any race or age of the world's history. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
With worn-out rails, scant supply of carriage-material, and wheezy engines, they performed herculean labor throughout the war. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.] Reference
Narrow passages have been cut through in every direction, but the herculean labor of removing the rubbish has yet hardly begun. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
This, after all, was the city that housed, fed and mended more than 150,000 survivors in a herculean effort that won national acclaim. From Wordnik.com. [Katrina's Latest Damage] Reference
Just then the door opened to admit E.bert E. Martin, the herculean stenographer who had grabbed Schrank before he could fire a second shot. From Wordnik.com. [The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt] Reference
They made up to a Marquesan gentleman of herculean proportions, whose office it was to take the princes of the blood an airing in his arms. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
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