If Eurystheus had not looked into matters, and sent Hercules upon his labours little would you have troubled yourself with the Hydras and Centaurs.
"A Grammar of Freethought"
Chapman Cohen
Hard and sharp against the sallow line of sunset, leaned grotesque shapes of cactuses like Hydras, and delicate silhouettes of young olive-trees like sylphs: the river ran silver in the hollow, and the mountain-side on which the town is piled was solid gold.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds
Let us therefore calmly, if we can for the fright into which he has put us, appreciate those dreadful and deformed gorgons and Hydras, which inhabit the joyless regions of an imagination fruitful in nothing but the production of monsters.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke