I must likewise take notice, that there are in Milton several Words of his own coining, as Cerberean, miscreated, Hell-doom'd, Embryon Atoms, and many others. From Wordnik.com. [The Spectator, Volume 2.] Reference
"Population, if not proscribed and worried down by the Cerberean dogs of this wretched and cruel system, really does press against the level of the means of subsistence, and still elevating that level, it continues thus to urge society through advancing stages, till at length the strong and resistless hand of necessity presses the secret spring of human prosperity, and the portals of Providence fly open, and disclose to the enraptured gaze the promised land of contented and rewarded labour.". From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2] Reference
But for those limbs Cerberean jaws are found. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost] Reference
With wide Cerberean mouth, full loud, and ring. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung655. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost: The Second Book] Reference
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