Then the lynx over whose head he passed leaped straight up, caught the flying creature fairly in his great paws, fell over backwards, and was covered in an instant by the other lynxes that hurled themselves upon him like Furies, snapping and clawing ferociously at the mouthful which he had pulled down at the very moment of its escape.
"A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories"
William Long
"The wild fellow in Petronius that escaped upon a broken table from the Furies of a shipwreck, as he was sunning himself upon the rocky shore, espied a man rolled upon his floating bed of waves, ballasted with sand in the folds of his garments, and carried by his civil enemy the sea towards the shore to find a grave; and it cast him into some sad thoughts; that peradventure this man's wife in some part of the Continent, safe and warm, looks next month for the good man's return; or it may be his son knows nothing of the tempest; or his father thinks of that affectionate kiss which still is warm upon the good old man's cheek ever since he took a kind farewell, and he weeps with joy to think how blessed he shall be when his beloved boy returns into the circle of his father's arms.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
A screaming sound filled the boy's ears: the yelling of the storm, the laughter of the Furies, the shrill shouts of fiends.
"In the Musgrave Ranges"
Jim Bushman
