augean in a sentence

1. the Augean stables

2. “He and I were cleaning all these Augean stables.”

3. This would have made this task – like the Hydra and Augean stables – void because he had received help.

4. The Augean /ɔːˈdʒiːən/ Stables had not been cleaned in over 30 years, and over 1,000 cattle lived there.

5. This would have made the labour – like the Hydra and the Augean Stables – void because Hercules had received help.

6. Historian Richard Landes exposed the hypocrisy of Walker’s moral equivalence on his website, “The Augean Stables.”

7. After Hercules returned from his success in the Augean stables, Eurystheus came up with an even more difficult task.

8. Eurystheus demanded two more labors from the hero, since he did not count the hydra or the Augean stables as properly done.

9. And finally, thirdly, most diseases occur at a very complex mechanism, and purify the blood stream by the method of "Augean stables", at least, useless.

10. In order to cleanse these Augean stables once and for all, it requires the power of a demigod like Heracles or the knowledge of an ascended master like myself.

11. I said that those men, if they lived today, would clean the Augean stables with iron brooms, and that they, too, would undoubtedly be characterized as "wild Socialists."

12. 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.

13. The positive complement to Glass-Steagall is a public credit system: Once the grounds are cleaned up, or the Augean Stables are cleaned up, we need an engine to build our future.

14. The first measures of the proletariat, cleansing the Augean stables of the old regime and driving out its inmates, will meet with the active support of the whole nation, in spite of what the liberal eunuchs may say about the tenacity of certain prejudices among the masses of the people.