augean stables

Example Sentences

• "We started with the idea of washing ourselves at the hotel; but on seeing the basin and water and towel provided, I decided not to waste my time playing with them. As well might Hercules have attempted to tidy up the Augean stables with a squirt."
• "She ordered him upstairs immediately to clean the Augean stables of his bedroom."
• "Nor is his diligence in this particular, leſs to be applauded, for having cleans'd the Augean''' Stables of ſo many Syſtems [of logic], from ſtudied Barbariſm and Delirium."
• "After the Reſtoration, this Proteſtant champion [John Hacket] vvas made B[isho]p of Lichfield; and vvith the ſame zeal vvith vvhich he had defended its rights and ceremonies, he ſet about the reſtoration of his cathedral. In the morning after his arrival at Lichfield he raiſed all his ſervants by daybreak, and vvith his coach-horſes and hired ſervants he began the great vvork of cleanſing the Augean Stable, to ſuch a deplorable ſtate had the enemy reduced it."
• "As a proof of the disgusting state of the house [the Theatre-Royal, Liverpool], suffice it to mention, that, at the late festival of music held here, which attracted a great concourse of fashionable company, a ridotto-ball was intended to have been given at the theatre; but, upon inspection by the committee, the place was found so uncomfortably dirty, damp, and noisome, the floor of the stage so worn and uneven, that it was judged impossible to cleanse the Augean stable so as to render it fit for the accommodation of the company, whence the design was given up, and the ball was held in the rooms of the Athenæum."
• "How many a poor immortal soul have I met well nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood-lot!"