herculian

Example Sentences

• "That the Company will now submit, (willingly at least,) to such adjustment by impartial and competent persons, we think improbable. Indeed, the Herculian task of such revison would be one, from which the greatest financial talents would shrink and would moreover, for its performance require long time and great expence. It is most likely the adjustment will never take place."
• "The task of preparing these facts is a thankless one; few listen to them, and a less number care for them. He will have performed a Herculian task who shall convince the American citizen that the acts of government have any influence on his interests."
• "Sir, there are several things still to be done and said about the working of the Bombay Building Repairs and Reconstruction Board. It might perhaps be said that the task is a Herculian task."
• "The bodily exercise has assumed such a variety of shapes as to render it a truly herculian task to give an intelligent statement of it to any person who has never seen it."
• "The planners in India, therefore, face a herculian task as they have to take steps to raise the present agricultural growth rate by at least one and half times."
• "Antony van Leeuwenhoek initiated the herculian task of 'microscope making' through his inherent hobby of 'lens making'."