hippogriffin

Updated: May 1, 2025

All in that city was of ancient device; the carving on the houses, which, when age had broken it, remained unrepaired, was of the remotest times, and everywhere were represented in stone beasts that have long since passed away from Earth the dragon, the griffin, and the hippogriffin, and the different species of gargoyle.

Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany - Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsay

All in that city was of ancient device; the carving on the houses, which, when age had broken it, remained unrepaired, was of the remotest times, and everywhere were represented in stone beasts that have long since passed away from Earth the dragon, the griffin, the hippogriffin, and the different species of gargoyle. Nothing was to be found, whether material or custom, that was new in Astahahn.

Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany - A Dreamer's Tales

In the railway carriage she pointed out cattle to the unconscious infant with the tremulous quiver of the traveler who espies a herd of hippogriffin. "Is it corn that, Monsieur? Mon Dieu, it is beautiful. Regard then the corn, my cherished one." But the cherished one cared not for corn or cattle. He preferred to fix his cold eyes on Septimus, as if wondering what he was doing in that galley.

William John Locke - Septimus

All in that city was of ancient device; the carving on the houses, which, when age had broken it remained unrepaired, was of the remotest times, and everywhere were represented in stone beasts that have long since passed away from Earth the dragon, the griffin, and the hippogriffin, and the different species of gargoyle.

Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany - Tales of Three Hemispheres