When the little beauty expressed her amazement at not seeing Mr. Constantine, Lady Sara gave her such a withering look, that had her ladyship's eyes been medusan, poor Euphemia would have stood there forever after, a stone statue of disappointment.
"Thaddeus of Warsaw"
Jane Porter
The phenomenon of the red snow on the Arctic mountains is formed by innumerable vegetable bodies; and the olive green of the Greenland Sea by medusan animalcules, the number of which Mr. Scoresby illustrates by supposing that 80,000 persons would have been employed since the creation in counting it.
"The Poetical Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. M.P."
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Thus gazing, said Montreal, softly, we reverse the old medusan fable the poets tell us of, and look and muse ourselves out of stone.
"Rienzi"
Edward Bulwer Lytton