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hippogriff

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hippogriff
offspring of griffin and mare. [Ital. Lit.: Orlando Furioso]
See : Monsters


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The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter
I do not wish to seem inelegant, but this unsightly whale looks much like an amputated sow; and, as for the narwhale, one glimpse at it is enough to amaze one, that in this nineteenth century such a hippogriff could be palmed for genuine upon any intelligent public of schoolboys.
 
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