hellhound
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Cerberus, the guard of the underworld, is featured with Hercules, a reference to the heroic demigod’s 12th and final labor which involved capturing the hellhound.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
Temperatures on the continent soared past 40C, with forecasters calling on Greek Mythology to coin one heatwave Cerberus, a three-headed hellhound that guards the gates of the underworld.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2023
I knew that what I did as a 16-year-old in Virginia would forever be a hellhound on my trail, but I hoped that I had outpaced my scapegrace.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2018
Plugged into a high-wattage amplifier, it produces the sound of the mythical hellhound on proto-bluesman Robert Johnson's trail.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2011
Outside the Waldorf Astoria, a bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin was whacking a hellhound with a rolled-up newspaper.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
We get no sense of the man’s haunted determination—no hints of those hellhounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Wilson describes Herald in detail in the script: “A man driven not by the hellhounds that seemingly bay at his heels, but by his search for a world that speaks to something about himself.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
In the process, these siblings come to embody a more harmonic vision for the country, a big two-hearted slipstream that may yet carry us away from “the hellhounds on the trail.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2017
In the first couple hours of Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara I fought and killed goblins, skeletons, gnolls, kobolds, displacer beasts, hellhounds, and a manticore, among myriad other classic D&D beasties.
From Forbes ● Jun. 21, 2013
The deck was crowded with dracaetuu and a whole pack of hellhounds.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
