Gorgon

"See, on the citadel, all grim with gore, / red-robed, and with the Gorgon shield aglow, / Tritonian Pallas bids the conflict roar."

I'll shrowd this Gorgon from all humane view.

Swilling martinis and spewing venom, Phyllis is a particularly unappetizing gorgon, telling us at one point that an acquaintance of hers is aroused by the Heimlich maneuver.

Uillain I tel thee, were that Tamburlaine As monſtrous as Gorgon, prince of Hel, The Souldan would not ſtart a foot from him.