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Meanings of gryphon in English

Portuguese
grifo
Catalan
grifó

Winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion.

        grifo
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        Examples for "griffin"
        Examples for "griffin"
        1
        And then he saw her, not far away from the other griffin.
        The dark griffin
        2
        Before long, he only had to feed the griffin during the nights.
        The Pinhoe Egg
        3
        The griffin was becoming more and more restless, impatient to be free.
        The dark griffin
        4
        He's the most savage griffin I've ever seen, and unpredictable as well.
        The dark griffin
        5
        The griffin hairpin clattered to the floor and I left it there.
        The accidental demon slayer
        1
        A huge china griffon stood at the right of the gate.
        The Best Short Stories of 1919, and the Yearbook of the American...
        2
        The griffon, symbolically a watchful overseer, seemed hopelessly remote from the gutter press.
        The Irish Times
        3
        A griffon ran down the steps and fell to one knee beside him.
        Nova
        4
        Kagonos spat at the mention of Silvanos's commander of cavalry, the renowned griffon-rider himself.
        The Kagonesti (A Story of the Wild Elves)
        5
        The griffon, who had been sniffing at Carlotta's skirts, suddenly leaped into her lap.
        The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
        Usage of gryphon in English
        1
        The doll could not tell if the gryphon was angry or amused.
        The Sandman Book of Dreams
        2
        He has let go the fell gryphon, borrowing instead the lion's glances of Emetrius.
        Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845
        3
        His hand wavered by the dragon, then by the gryphon.
        Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
        4
        An enormous gryphon trained its glittering gaze upon him.
        The Sandman Book of Dreams
        5
        Next thing I know, I'm under a bloody gryphon.
        From hell with love
        6
        It was she who had told me to look for the gryphon's-head maker's-mark on Rhode Island lanterns.
        The Pariah
        7
        Trapped under the gryphon he couldn't move, so he couldn't use up the last of his energies.
        From hell with love
        8
        A canonisation without controversy is as rare as the sighting these days of a phoenix or a gryphon.
        The Guardian
        9
        A stylized gryphon decorated the shield.
        Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
        10
        Get back to the gryphon.
        From hell with love
        11
        She took up the magical pen, laid ready as Helmas had directed, and she wrote with this gryphon's feather.
        Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances
        12
        Finally, the gryphon spoke.
        The Sandman Book of Dreams
        13
        But as he looked at the gryphon, he saw that it was not angry at him, but rather deeply sad.
        The Sandman Book of Dreams
        14
        Dazzling whips of raw electricity slashed at the walls and floor and ceiling like the razor claws of a maddened gryphon.
        The Reality Dysfunction
        15
        The rest were too broken up to identify readily, though Dru imagined he saw the gryphon and a cat in the pile.
        Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
        16
        Or Dryden perhaps had not taken up a right view of the gryphon's looking, or he thought that his readers would not.
        Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845
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        Translations for gryphon
        Portuguese
        grifo
        Catalan
        grifó
        Gryphon through the time