It seemed like laocoon struggling ineffectually in the hideous coils of the monster Python.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
But if anyone declares that this quiescent attitude means indolence or sleep, his judgment is on a par with that which was once passed on the famous statue of the laocoon.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Whatever Lessing says about poetry in the laocoon applies equally well to prose.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell