Furies in A Sentence

    1

    And now I'm in flight--pursued by furies of my own invoking--threatened with love in its most hideous form-- matrimony!

    2

    From the blood of Uranus (this feature is common in Red Indian and Egyptian myths) were born furies, giants, ash-nymphs and Aphrodite.

    3

    Orestes was persued by the Furies for committing matricide, they drove him mad and he chased him from land to land.

    4

    Specimens of Fowler's verses were published in 1803 by John Leyden in his Scottish Descriptive Poems. Fowler contributed a prefatory sonnet to James VI.'s Furies; and James, in return, commended, in verse, Fowler's Triumphs.

    5

    Then he bursts into one of his wild furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens them, and reads those from the Emperor addressed to others.