harpy

She turned upon the intruder with a curse, but Azalea had been right in believing that gold would loosen the old harpy's tongue.

A feather duster was stuck in for a tail, and his woolly head gave him the uncanny look of a black harpy.

There was the whole crew of the Harpy sloop, taken off here, treated in that way—that I know of to a certainty.

And the little girl struck and scratched and made a curdled face and echoed, “Harpy, your own self!”

"That harpy hopes to fleece us," said Dalrymple, slipping his arm through mine and drawing me towards the roulette table.