The name Charybdis was inscribed in gold at her stern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Devil]

The part on the Sicilian side was called Charybdis, and that on the Italian shore was named Scylla.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations] Reference

In the cliff opposite lived another terrible creature called Charybdis who stirred the sea to a fierce whirlpool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference

This amazing water vortex sculpture made by William Pye is called Charybdis, and it is located in Seaham Hall, Sunderland, UK.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

Rhegium and Messenè where Sicily is nearest to the continent; it is the so-called Charybdis by which Odysseus is said to have passed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

(B) This river, according tq Strabo, difappeared at a place called Charybdis, between A - pamea and Anticch; and after Having run five miles underr ground, enaerged.    From Wordnik.com.  [An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time] Reference

We had but cleared Hong Kong when we sighted the "Charybdis," with the long pennant flying.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

The day following, the lifting of a fog bank revealed to us the "Charybdis" close in shore, under small sail.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

The "Charybdis" was to lead the centre, and the "Diana" the left of the line, while the "Talbot" acted as a rear guard.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference

Immediately he had left her the "Charybdis" was ordered to sea; the bracing sea air of a more northern clime being about the most effective medicine for her crew.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

She has escaped Scylla only to fall upon Charybdis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

But the ship passed between Scylla and Charybdis and reached.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

Scylla and Charybdis horribly belching, a course awaits them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonautica] Reference

Charybdis of no union and the Scylla of the repudiation of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy] Reference

Syrtes, Charybdis, or the Styx, as long as he can escape Tomis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

Delmé felt glad of this change; for Scylla and Charybdis to an.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Story] Reference

"Scylla," he was equally sure to find a "Charybdis" at the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference

Odysseus did to the fig-tree from fear of Charybdis that lay below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

Charybdis, the story of, located at the Strait of Messana, V. viii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.] Reference

Scylla of didactic details and the Charybdis of glittering generalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference

Charybdis safely, though he lost some of his men in the terrible passage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference

And now past the mighty rock of Scylla and Charybdis horribly belching, a course awaits them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonautica] Reference

They were drifting apart, I thought; but in avoiding Scylla, had I not plunged into Charybdis?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Vessels which avoided the rock of Scylla were oft-times prone to fall into the dangerous whirlpool of Charybdis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

They now approached the terrible dangers of Scylla and Charybdis, between which Circe had desired them to pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference

It was no time for brilliant initiative or adventurous politics; the need was to avoid Scylla and Charybdis, and a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

The man who was ingenious enough to act a double part, who could steer clear of Charybdis and Scylla, alone evaded trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Shadow of Death] Reference

Charybdis and Scylla had also their warning beacon, and Caprera too lifted its light to save ancient vessels from destruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference

It is no benefit to us if in steering away from the Scylla of monopoly, we be wrecked on the Charybdis of wasteful competition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monopolies and the People] Reference

Yet Helenus 'commands counsel that our course keep not the way between Scylla and Charybdis, the very edge of death on either hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

Jason and Medea are purified by Circe: the Argonauts pass the isle of the Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and the Planctae (685-981).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonautica] Reference

But in avoiding Scylla they ran the risk of striking upon Charybdis; for the dangerous reefs of Eleuthera were fatal to many vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference

What hath availed me Syrtes or Scylla, what desolate Charybdis? they find shelter in their desired Tiber-bed, careless of ocean and of me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference