| 单词 | Augean |
| 例句 | The fifth labor was to clean the Augean stables in a single day. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stupid columns. Some people claim I created the whole Strait of Gibraltar by shoving mountains apart. Some people say the mountains are the pillars. What a bunch of Augean manure. The pillars are pillars.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Probably, though, the City would be treated as an Augean stable. A novel by Hilaire Belloc with twenty-two drawings by G.K. Chesterton 2012-06-05T06:30:00Z No mistakes in “cryptanalysis” “Augean,” or “rhinencephalon,” a part of the brain involved in smell. Pete’s Candy Store Hosts a Spelling Bee for Adults 2013-08-01T20:06:51Z If bridging today’s partisan chasm seems an Augean endeavor, Ms. Pelosi believes cable news is to blame. Alexandra Pelosi Plunges Into Trump Country 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z She made everyone else look overdone and overdressed, washing the Augean stables of Cannes clean. 15 Fashion Triumphs From Cannes Over the Decades 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z A moment in Greek mythology comes to mind: Hercules and the Augean Stables. Beyond the right's "woke" slurs, what would a "progressive" U.S. military really look like? 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z He likened the Internet to the Augean stables in Greek mythology, which needed Hercules to divert two rivers to wash away decades of manure. British watchdog demands more power over crypto promotions 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z It is also going to be an Augean task for those who encircled Trump to distance themselves and rehab their reputations. Opinion | Slip Sliding Away From History 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z No one’s ever actually done that — not on such a scale with three stars all volunteering to clean the Augean stables. Perspective | The Nationals are breaking the rules and just might steal the series from the Dodgers 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Instead, it is going to take an effort akin to Hercules cleaning out the Augean stables to repair, rebuild and strengthen America. What is America going to do about its Trump problem in 2019? | Carol Anderson 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Until these Augean stables are cleared out, no amount of dedicated new tax revenue will be sufficient; once they are, very little new tax revenue will be necessary. The Case for the Subway 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z He described the justice system as “Augean stable that needs to be cleansed.” New Polish PM debuts at summit, seeks better ties with EU 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z He did not clean the Augean stables of Washington, and suffered dearly for it. With Barack Obama’s exit the US is losing a saint. But a sinner may make a better president | Simon Jenkins 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Trump’s victory was the basis for Russia’s “moderate optimism”; now both sides could discuss how “to clear out the Augean stables in our bilateral relations.” Trump, Putin, and the Big Hack 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Others maintained that, after cleansing the Augean stables and then defeating the local king in battle, the hero Heracles inaugurated the early Games in Zeus’ honor. The Strange Rites of the Ancient Olympics 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Since then, he has performed many labors: cleaned out the Augean Stables using only his bare hands — good practice for Trump news conferences. Your complete guide to the veepstakes 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z It is a metaphor he would never use, nor one he is likely to be familiar with, but he was the one man from outside the establishment who could clean the Augean stables of Washington. Inside the topsy-turvy world of Trump: what I learned on the campaign trail 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Cleaning Nigeria's equivalent of the fantastically filthy Augean stables of Greek myth is certainly not a one-year job. Buhari’s first year: Five ways Nigeria has changed - BBC News 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Ridding Greece of its endemic political patronage and corruption will take a "Herculean effort," similar to cleaning the "Augean stables." Greece's debt crisis explained, in mythological terms 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z What angers truly patriotic Americans is that this entire Augean stable is legal. Gary Hart: America's Principles Are in Danger of Corruption 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Six years would provide a more ample window for Congress to undertake the Herculean task of cleaning out the Augean stables of the federal tax code … and to get it enacted. The Hidden Key 2014 Election: Kevin Brady Jolts Paul Ryan 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z That doesn't even factor into the non-stop drama surrounding Donald Sterling and the Los Angeles Clippers as the league embarks on the sports franchise equivalent of cleaning the Augean Stables. Heat close on NBA Finals return but will they face Spurs or Thunder? 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z The election stable is Augean: black money is even used to distribute seeds and manure. Silent campaigns 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Yet Marc at first welcomed the conflict, writing: "The Augean Stables that is Europe can only be cleaned this way." Can we really know the Lost Generation? 2014-01-17T01:43:55Z Thoroughly to cleanse the Augean stable was a task from which even Innocent’s fearless spirit might well shrink. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z The fabulous filth of the Augean stables, and the radical methods employed for their cleansing, have given rise to proverbial expressions still in current use. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Society was at no pains to hide its relief that the Augean stable has been cleansed and that a terrible scandal had been exorcised from its midst. The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z But who is to cleanse this Augean stable? Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Philip next introduced his broom into the somewhat Augean garage. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Upon Richmond as postmaster-general of Ireland as well as England and Scotland it now devolved to sweep out the Augean stable; and his stern sense of duty peculiarly qualified him for the task. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z The district-attorney was busy, however, on an Augean task—the cleaning out of the police stable. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z I had forgotten what it contained, and opened it slowly, thinking it was possibly an Augean Stable; but nothing met my eyes except a small packet of papers. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z But he was not only a powerful believer in his own soul, but was the believing Hercules who went forth in the name of divine law to cleanse the Augean stables of the world.... Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z A dismal corridor, a flaming stove, Turkish sentries protesting with Hercules in khaki, cleansing the Augean stable. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z It was the river Alpheus that Hercules turned through the Augean stables. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z His labors were truly Herculean, and his success in cleansing this Augean stable most signal. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z It’s about like Hercules trying to clean the Augean Stables, I think, but I try and use the den for an overflow, and only put the things I’m really fond of in here. Molly Brown's Freshman Days 2011-07-12T02:00:31.110Z For years the evil was felt and complained of, but no effort was made to remedy it, or to cleanse these worse than Augean stables. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z Augean says the waste, which is mainly soil and rubble from old nuclear power stations, is very low-level radioactive. Low-level radioactive waste site approved 2011-05-25T13:28:22Z Augean said the waste, which is mainly soil and rubble from old nuclear power stations, is very low-level radioactive. Radioactive waste site approved 2011-05-25T10:34:38Z “However, the quandary of nuclear Augean stables would stump even Hercules.” Green: Radiation: A Literary Analysis 2011-04-20T11:41:21Z So what did Hercules do but lead the courses of two streams, the Alpheus and the Peneus, right through the Augean stables cleansing them thoroughly. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z By sheer persistence and strength to enforce her commands, she had brought about a cleansing nothing short of Augean. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z Jackson’s journey from Tennessee was well-chronicled, as a westerner came in to clean the Augean stables of Washington. Disunion: Lincoln Moves 2011-02-10T21:37:45Z We all know the nomenclature of botany to be an Augean stable, which C. Hoffmann, and even Gesner, were not able to cleanse. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Take her he would have done from the arms of Satanus himself, but to disentangle himself from all his difficulties was a task that beat the Augean stables hollow. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories Christianity was to be the new Hercules to cleanse this worse than Augean pollution. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs The religious houses were suppressed, their enormous wealth was applied for the defence of the realm, and the worse than Augean dunghill of abuses was cleared out with resolute hand. The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII But it will be many a year before that Augean stable is cleaned out, which originated with those who "took Westminster." The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History The descent of Hercules to Hades seems to me a feat of mere insignificance compared with the cleaning out of the Augean stables, if, as I presume, the inmates were not previously removed. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 He had cleansed, as far as was possible, the Augean stable. Rulers of India: Lord Clive Hercules, in his capacity of an amateur scavenger, once attempted the cleaning of the Augean stables, or some such trifle, and his success was trumpeted throughout the neighborhood as a triumph of ingenuity and perseverance. The Witches of New York It was what the newspapers call 'an Augean task,' for the Second was not very neat in his habits. Aliens Augean stables are not to be cleansed with a spray of rose-water. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series We have sent down members of the Board of Health, to make preparations and organise boards; but, if the disease really spreads, no human power can arrest its progress through such an Augean stable. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II However the patriarch and his sons managed to cleanse this worse than Augean stable passes all understanding. Bible Romances First Series The very cleansing of my soul was an Augean task. The Strollers She seemed prepared to clean Augean stables, and there was something judicial in her aspect too, but she did not look at Olive. Olive in Italy They seem to have been just then cleansing out the Augean stable of the Commonwealth: for it is added, "two more acts" were similarly burnt next day. Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc We can clean these Augean stables by one concentrated effort, even as England cleaned her corrupt borough elections of a century and a half ago. A Man of Two Countries Go, sweep the Augean stable that makes New York the lazar-house of corruption! History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Dear innocent, wise enthusiast, with her impossible scheme for cleansing the Augean stable of this world! The Dop Doctor Let me tell you, then, that you are setting yourself to cleanse an Augean stable. Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop But the task is vast, it is herculean, like unto the cleaning of the Augean stables. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin Last spring every exertion of the whole combined pitchforks was required to cleanse that Augean stable: can Sir Robert Peel have the inhumanity next year to request them to buckle to a tenfold augmented task? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. O, the rivers of ink that I have exhausted in cleansing his Augean page from the black-letter filth heaped upon it by his different commentators! The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 However, attention once a year is better than none at all, as said of the Augean stables. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis "He said that he had started on his task of cleaning out the Augean stable of Hathelsborough, and that the old task of Hercules was child's play compared to his." In the Mayor's Parlour Consequently, the foul Augean stable of vice and iniquity, for the time being, at least, was in a great degree cleansed and purified. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. The river, turned into the foul Augean stables of the heart, will sweep out all the filth and leave everything clean. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John The Chancellor has himself been very unwillingly compelled to propose this scheme of reform, for he hates all alterations, and does not like to begin cleansing the Augean stable of the Court of Chancery. The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) It is an Augean stable we have to clean, but Hercules was one, and we are many. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Blood must flow, tears must be shed through a generation; rivers of lustration must be thrown through that Augean accumulation of guilt. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Fortunately there appeared on the scene a man—The Man—who conceived in his mighty brain a way to clear this Augean stable and transform it into a comparative fairyland. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 He has a roomy boxstall in the new Augean stable at the foot of Mount Parnassus. Tales of Fantasy and Fact But while there is life in a young patient there is always hope, and we at once set to work on our Augean task. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell He has done much to cleanse the Augean stables of the English theatre. Personality in Literature One would suppose that the vessel was as dirty as those Augean stables that fellow Hercules had to clean, by all the water you use.” The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea You caught me in the midst of my Augean stable. The Carbonels Yes; Hercules himself could not have kept that quarter clean; the Augean stables were nothing to it. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War But even the Augean task of putting the Manse in order, did not satisfy the gigantic activity of Mr. Touchwood. St. Ronan's Well His Augean stable, if not wholly clean, was at least free from the more dangerous impurities. White Ashes Days were spent trying to clean up Ballah East; had Hercules been with us he would have diverted the Canal through the Augean camp. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 He declared that he "would be the last man to hamper the President in the good work of cleaning out the Augean stable, which he is now about to undertake." Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 This is the second real and great work of Shaw—the letting in of the world on to the stage, as the rivers were let in upon the Augean Stable. George Bernard Shaw On being admitted again by Mrs. Kebby, and sending that ancient female to her Augean task of cleansing the house, Lucian descended to the basement in order to examine kitchen and cellar more particularly. The Silent House To him Hercules lived yesterday, and, confusing hearsay with memory, he was almost ready to swear that he was present and used a shovel when the strong man cleaned the Augean stables. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters I should have valued myself more on clearing the library than on cleansing the Augean stables. Dialogues of the Dead To cleanse such an Augean stable before the arrival of the cholera was, of course, out of the question. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 The changes in your House, I see, are going on for the better, and even the Augean herd over your heads are slowly purging off their impurities. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Love, that marvellous panacea, had driven out the false, the impure visions of his heart, as surely and as thoroughly as ever Hercules cleansed the Augean stables. Adrien Leroy And I shall have the Augean stables of these corrupt offices swept of their filth. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Englishman Their ignominy served America; it roused the country to clean its Augean stables. Joy in the Morning No one seemed to take the trouble to cleanse this Augean stable, this Pandemonium, this tangle of crime, filth, and pestilence in the centre of the second city of the kingdom. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 It would be an Augean task for me to go through the London newspapers, and formally contradict all their lies, even those relating to America. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Catharine found corruption and bribery everywhere, and she engaged in the work of reform with the energies of Hercules in cleansing the Augean stables. The Empire of Russia Stymphalean buzzards ravage round our fields; The Augean stables reeking stench the land; The hundred-headed monster Cerberus, That throttled Greece and ravaged hapless France, Hath broke from hell and howls for human blood. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Eurystheus set Hercules the task of cleaning out these Augean stables in a single day! Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) At first I was not allowed to go out of their dirty tents or still filthier winter turf-caves, than which the Augean stables were a cleaner place of abode. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 The departing Germans had left them in very bad shape, and Hercules would have felt that cleaning the Augean stables was a light task in comparison. War in the Garden of Eden This was indeed the Augean stable, and unexampled clamour arose from the multitude who had indolently fattened for years on the easy plunder of the public stores. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Clean the Augean stables if thou can'st; But hurl the hundred-headed monster down Headlong to Hades: chain him; make thee sure He shall not burst the bonds of hell again. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems The comparison may be slightly applicable," said the Elector, "and as far as the Augean stable is concerned. The Youth of the Great Elector The Congress professed to be hard at work cleaning out the Augean stable of laws, rescripts, and proclamations, and making a working constitution. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern It is expected, he added, that "he will cleanse the Augean stables, and I feel pretty confident that he will not disappoint the popular expectation in this particular." The Reign of Andrew Jackson Allow us to clean our Augean stables without more than a formal opposition from the State. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts It was an Augean stable indeed that he set about cleansing. Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography The real and serious difficulty, and one which at present seems insurmountable, is to secure cleanliness and safety in that Augean stable—the cook-house. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil Mr. Phillips has "enclosed but a corner of the waste, swept little more than a single stall in the Augean stable;" "holding a candle to the back-ground of history," &c. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 327, August 16, 1828 And now," said General Belmont, "while we are cleansing the Augean stables, we may as well remove the cause as the effect. The Marrow of Tradition Hercules might labor now; there are other stables than the Augean; and not yet are all Hydras slain. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 An attempt has recently been made to cleanse the Augean stable of the Indian Department, but it has met with signal failure, the usual result in America of every effort to purify the official atmosphere. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains Hercules, not of Herculaneum, viewed the Augean stables he may have thought that he had a considerable job on hand, but he tackled it with a man's strength and brain. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 I strove manfully to make the foul thing respectable, but the Augean stables proved too much for my pitchfork. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 In these latter days of his Augean labors to purge England of the unclean thing which had fastened upon her, my friend was more lean and nervous-looking than I had ever known him. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu They courageously set about the herculean task of cleansing this Augean stable of "Prosperity." Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene After her first disappointment in being kept at home, she set about her task of cleaning the Snawdor flat with the ardor of a young Hercules attacking the Augean stables. Calvary Alley Do not PUNCHINELLO'S subjects all know that whisk brooms sweep clean, and that no broom swept cleaner the Augean stables of Federal plunderers than that wretched Old BAILEY'S whisky broom? Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 03, April 16, 1870 "If I were able, I would accompany you myself, my dear, for poor Marriott's sake, though I would almost as soon go to the Augean stable." Tales and Novels — Volume 03 This house has been entirely destroyed in that way more than once, and the last time that it was occupied by troops, was left like an Augean stable. Life in Mexico They carry with them a conscience like the floor of an Augean stable, but they know how to walk thereon. From One Generation to Another This morning I arose at milking-time in good trim for work; and we have been employed partly in an Augean labor of clearing out a wood-shed, and partly in carting loads of oak. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. The true way to cleanse the Augean stables, as the old myth has it, was to turn the river into them. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Mr. Oldeschole found that he could not stand at all before this young Hercules, seeing that his special stall was considered to be the foulest in the whole range of the Augean stables. The Three Clerks If local institutions had been kept up in energy, the unhealthy buildings which now exist could never have arisen; there is at present an Augean stable to cleanse…. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman I hardly agree with you that a general movement can be made that will clean out the Augean Stable. The Great Conspiracy, Volume 3 He set to work at once, with the vigour of the new broom, to cleanse the Augean stable. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 For accumulated nastiness that waiting room was an Augean stable and the two soldiers who dawdled about in it with brooms lacked woefully in the qualities of Hercules. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front But the reformers were not content with the abolition of a single court; they resolved to cleanse the whole of the Augean stable. The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 I doubt whether any nominally free State ever had such an Augean Stable left to it by forty years' eminently active legislation. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Whoever tries to forestall or appease him might better be at work in Augean stables; because, after all, we must admit that the facts of life are on his side. Bits about Home Matters An Augean stable with a Hercules who doesn't do his work, I grant you! Caesar Dies There are Augean stables enough and to spare for us to clean. Freedom's Battle Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation Let it first regenerate the "Augean Stable" known to the world as Germany. What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it I seem to have an Augean stable to cleanse in reducing my papers to simplicity, and burning accumulations of thirty years. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman It was a labor of Hercules, a cleansing of Augean stables; but the scared savages were ready to make any promise that might stay the pestilence. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century But his labours in the Augean stables of Kay's were by no means over. The Head of Kay's Probably Hercules thought the Augean stables were spotless and fragrant when he had finished with them. Flowing Gold But clearly he did not visit Rome in pursuit of any plans for cleansing that Augean stable the Papacy. Medieval Europe To-morrow I sweep out this Augean stable of villainy, and leave not a Jew to blaspheme and cheat in Alexandria.' Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face Then in the autumn of that year, 1858, I was asked to go to the West Indies, and cleanse the Augean stables of our Post Office system there. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope This was the Augean stable which had to be cleaned, and poor Hercules was weak and frail and physically more fitted for a sick-room than for such a task. Through the Magic Door The Augean Stables were in the City Hall; and had Hercules lived in Herculaneum, he never would have sat with the gods. Half a Rogue Most probably, the reason of the neglect is the difficulty how to begin, or where to end, the Augean labour of Consular reform. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 If I were only an old Greek, how I would pray to Minerva for help, and call upon Hercules to remove this Augean dirt, that pollutes and lumbers all the chambers of my mind! Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing Lord Talbot drank to cleansing the Augean stable of the dung and grooms. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 In his capacity of annotator he would have plunged headlong into the Augean stables, had there been any likelihood of extracting therefrom the germs of a luminous footnote. South Wind Their subjects are the twelve labors of Heracles, beginning with the slaying of the Nemean lion and ending with the cleansing of the Augean stables. A History of Greek Art "I am no Hercules, to turn the Peneus of reform through the Augean realms of society," answered Cornelia, with an impatient gesture; and, rising, she drew on her glove. Beulah The chief commissioner, Colonel Warren, R.A., was an officer of great energy and ability, and he had grappled vigorously with every difficulty and cleansed the Augean stables thoroughly. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 This slight outline of the situation will exhibit the difficulties of the Khedive in his thankless and Herculean task of cleansing the Augean stables. Ismailia His son Cesare was the Hercules to whom was to be given the labour of cleaning out the Augean stable of the Romagna. The Life of Cesare Borgia It needs the wisdom of Solon to legislate for this land, and a Hercules to cleanse its Augean stables of official corruption. The Golden Dog His mind was very far from his official duties and the mass of reminders before him—this Augean stable of arrears. The Snare Yet we are informed by him that in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Yokohama, the Augean stables of American vice are located. Anarchism and Other Essays Who has not watched at the commencement of a Ministry some Secretary, some Lord, or some Commissioner, who intends by fresh Herculean labours to cleanse the Augean stables just committed to his care? The Prime Minister As well might Hercules have attempted to tidy up the Augean stables with a squirt. Diary of a Pilgrimage Why am I like the resident manager of the Augean stable, before Hercules was called in to sweep the litter out? Armadale It is the Augean stables through which some American Hercules must turn a purifying river before the American people can justly boast either of their capital or of their government. North America — Volume 2 We thought it was the Nemean lion, and we have found it is the Augean stable. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war Such silly paradoxes provoked, of course, merely a smile of compassion; what alarmed the sensible, respectable "Philistine" was the method of cleansing the Augean stable recommended by these enthusiasts. Russia |
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