They walked over every opponent they tackled for the first few weeks, then began to slip and it required herculean efforts to keep them in the first division at the finish.

Then in desperation Callahan began switching his line-up and by herculean effortand the help of Ed Walshclimbed back into the upper quartet and stuck there to the finish.

What disinterestedness marks his whole career, from the time when he flies from Pharaoh to the appointment of his successor, relinquishing without regret the virtual government of Egypt, accepting cheerfully the austerities and privations of the land of Midian, never elevating his own family to power, never complaining in his herculean tasks!

Can a woman's smiles incite to Herculean energies, and drive the willing worshipper to Aönian heights, unless under these smiles are seen the light of life and the blessedness of supernatural fervor?

I have just accomplished the Herculean task of looking over a two-months' supply of newspapers, and this occupation, interlarded with a certain number of letters and visits to and from the Imperial Commissioners, and, to-day, an address from the British community of Shanghae, has pretty fully occupied my time.

But we thought we could do a lot with bare hands when we glanced at the spot where the stone centipede had crashed back to its bed, A vision of that devilish carving standing above one in the moonlight was enough to stimulate a person to herculean tasks when he understood that failure would bring him again under its ghastly shadow.

This habit got him into many awkward scrapes, but his herculean power as often got him out of them.

The yell brought a dozen warriors instantly to the spot, and before Dick had time to recover from his astonishment, Henri was surrounded and pinioned despite his herculean struggles.

and they go to meetin in a carrige and dick drives "Yores respectful "THEOPHILUS" The third epistle was written on a clean sheet, the date being in the middle of the first page, and the entire production bearing the marks of herculean effort.

Scorning pads and gloves, they "go in" to bat, and make Herculean efforts to hit the ball.

He was a man of Herculean proportions, dressed like an under-gamekeeper, but with the face of one who was used to command.

With a bursting heart I entered those walls, compelled to feel that all my more than Herculean labours served for my own torture, and for no other end.

Has not the commercial world been crying aloud for decimal coinage and decimal weights and measures, and are not educated men constantly finding some objections, and will they not continue to do so, until some giant mind springs up able to grasp the herculean task, and force the boon upon the community?

All at once, above the din, sounded the penetrating voice of a man, who was striving with herculean energy to change the course of the wild animals.

"The courage and energy that rebuilt it is herculean."

She covered her emotion with the most herculean efforts at gaiety.

"The supposed Herculean task of learning to conjugate verbs, will be transformed into a few hours of pleasant pastime."Ib., p. 142.

Victor Hugo, again, was one of the herculean artists, working, in Emerson's phrase, "in a sad sincerity," with the patience of an ant and the energy of a volcano.

His body lacked fat, and under his swarthy skin bulged great, rigid and protruding musclesan Herculean texture from which had been eliminated every element incapable of producing strength.

Herculean task.

With one Herculean effort, bred of the wildest despair, we managed to rein him in at a sharp right angle, and we succeeded in calming his fury, and tied the panting, trembling fiend to a post.

Burke described him as "A genius not born in every country, or every time: with a Herculean robustness of mind; and nerves not to be broken by labour.

His boots were rather tight, and somehow, even in a dry forest, he always contrived to get them wet, so that in the morning it was a herculean task for him to pull them on.

He had no experimental knowledge of it; nay, regular meals, on the contrary, gave him anxious concern, yet had the effectspite of his apprehension that he was being fattened for a purposeof restoring the herculean puissance which formerly in Africa had made him the terror of the battle.

We can just make out a train of diminutive cars winding a tortuous course in and out around the curves, the toy engine fighting every inch of the steep incline, and panting like an athlete with Herculean efforts to reach the summit.