The students studied a live green hydra during their biology class. From LearnThat.org.
hydra was slain by Hercules. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We may be facing a hydra that defies any easy solution. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But controlling that kind of hydra could prove tricky even for Bush's vaunted strategist Karl Rove. From Wordnik.com. [OF PRAYER AND PAYBACK] Reference
But love "hydra" - perhaps I'll look into it!. From Wordnik.com. [Connected Documents - Anil Dash] Reference
COOPER: It's a multi-headed hydra though, al Qaeda is. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2006] Reference
We knew that this monster is hydra-headed, many tentacled. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2004] Reference
For treason's hydra head is crushed -- its reign of terror o'er. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
If he's one of heads of the hydra, we need to go after all of them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2002] Reference
On the other hand, the Internet has more heads than the mythical hydra. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Weller: China Struggles to Contain Online Gaming] Reference
Behold hydra-headed infidelity stalking over New England, in clerical robes. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference
In those two years, al Qaeda has morphed into a hydra, a multi-headed organization. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2004] Reference
Free-verse (or, as Miss Lowell prefers, 'unrhymed cadence') is a hydra-headed phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
If self sets to work to slay self it will only end in rising hydra-headed from the contest. From Wordnik.com. [Parables of the Christ-life] Reference
John Howard had grappled with the hydra before her, and finally succumbed to his exertions. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Fry] Reference
At last the hydra was visible on a hill by the springs of Amymone, where its lair was found. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
The body of the hydra he cut into half, dipping his arrows in the blood, which was poisonous. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
"But how," asked Willy, "could anybody manage to turn so small a thing as a hydra inside out?". From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
He destroyed the Lernæ'an hydra, which had nine heads, eight of them mortal and one immortal. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
At the same time an enormous crab came to the help of the hydra and began biting the hero's foot. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
It calls upon the people, if they would be free, to strike down the hydra that preys upon the state. From Wordnik.com. [Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light] Reference
Both campaigns are afraid now that this thing is a hydra with 14 heads that can undermine both efforts. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2004] Reference
We shall have cut the gordian knot of slavery, and the death agonies of the hydra would soon be visible. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
There have been many attempts at corralling the desktop hydra, but none have provided a universal solution. From Wordnik.com. [Making the leap to virtual desktop infrastructure] Reference
The hydra was an enormous creature -- a serpent with nine heads, of which eight were mortal and one immortal. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
But the wound, filled with the poison of the hydra, could not be healed; so the centaur was carried into his cave. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Probably the fact that he had raised his wife from that condition kept the hydra-headed system continually before him. From Wordnik.com. [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference
Cut a hydra into thirty or forty pieces, and each piece will become a distinct animal -- a facsimile of the original one. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
There is the green hydra, the light flesh-coloured or common hydra, and the long-armed hydra, the most interesting of all. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
The established order of affairs, which he fought against, was a hydra, from which, for one head cut off, twenty sprang up. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
They saw they were fighting a hydra; for as fast as they lopped off heads in any direction, fresh ones sprang up in others. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
In this way the hero was at last master of the situation and was able to cut off even the head of the hydra that could not be killed. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Faction is an hydra-headed monster, which no man can destroy, either by the charms of his eloquence or the terror of his countenance. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Even the use of animal fluids alone is recorded -- e.g., the arrows of Hercules, which were dipped in the gall of the Lernæan hydra. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference
Had Pupasse possessed as many heads as the hydra, she could have "coiffe'd" them all with fools 'caps during one morning's recitations. From Wordnik.com. [Balcony Stories] Reference
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