Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "Herculean" is:
byvoeglike naamwoord: vereis groot krag of inspanning; uiters moeilik; van of met betrekking tot Hercules of sy mite, veral met verwysing na sy groot krag en legendariese arbeid.
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The gratings are every day carefully examined by jailers, whose herculean proportions and cold pitiless expression prove them to have been chosen to reign over their subjects for their superior activity and intelligence.
What Herculean effort would it take from me to extract myself, and those who trusted me to protect them, from the steel grip of our foes, if this turned out to be the trap I expected?
He shook his head while dipping his naked herculean body into the hot water.
As I watched her playing with the boys, I found myself in a Herculean struggle with my conscience.
What was the meaning of this so steady and self-respecting, this small Herculean labor, I knew not.
It took a herculean effort not to tread on his feet.
With a herculean swing of his mace, he struck his opponent.
From his Herculean frame and great powers of limb he had received the nickname of BROM BONES, by which he was universally known.
