Chapter Tintoretto of Switzerland to Tite Barnacle of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Tisiphone , one of the three Furies. Covered with a bloody robe, she sits day and night at hell-gate, armed with a whip. Tibullus says her head was coifed with serpents in lieu of hair.

the same is said of the three Gorgons in Greek mythology.

The Desert Fairy, with her head covered with snakes, like Tisiphonê, mounted on a winged griffin.—Comtess D’Aulnoy: Fairy Tales (“The Yellow Dwarf,” 1683).

Titan, the sun or Helios, the child of Hyperion and Basilea, and grandson of Coèlum or heaven. Virgil calls the sun “Titan,” and so does Ovid.

… primos crastinus ortus
Extulerit Titan, radiisque retexerit orbem.
   —Æneid, iv. 118, 119.

A maiden queen that shone at Titan’s ray.
   —Spenser: Faërie Queene, i. 4 (1590).

Titans, six giants, sons of Heaven and Earth. Their names were Oceanos, Kœos, Krios, Hyperion, Iapetos, and Kronos.

The Titanidês were Theia [Thi-a], Rhea, Themis, Mnemosynê, Phœbê, and Tethys.

Titania, queen of the fairies, and wife of Oberon. Oberon wanted her to give him for a page a little changeling, but Titania refused to part with him, and this led to a fairy quarrel. Oberon, in revenge, anointed the eyes of Titania during sleep with an extract of “Love in Idleness,” the effect of which was to make her fall in love with the first object she saw on waking. The first object Titania set eyes on happened to be a country bumpkin, whom Puck had dressed up with an ass’s head. When Titania was fondling this “unamiable creature,” Oberon came upon her, sprinkled on her an antidote, and Titania, thoroughly ashamed of herself, gave up the boy to her husband; after which a reconciliation took place between the wilful fairies.—Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream (1592).

Tite Barnacle (Mr.), head of the Circumlocution Office, and a very great man in his own opinion. The family had intermarried with the Stiltstalkings, and the Barnacles and Stiltstalkings found berths pretty readily in the national workshop, where brains and conceit were in inverse ratio. The young gents in the office usually spoke with an eye-glass in one eye, in this sort of style: “Oh, I say; look here! Can’t attend to you to-day, you know. But look here! I say; can’t you call to-morrow?” “No.” “Well, but I say; look here! Is this public business?—anything about—tonnage—or that sort of thing?” Having made his case understood, Mr. Clennam received the following instructions in these words—

You must find out all about it. Then you’ll memorialize the department, according to the regular forms for leave to memorialize. If you get it, the memorial must be entered in that department, sent to be registered in this department, then sent back to that department, then sent to this department to be countersigned, and then it will be brought regularly before that department. You’ll find out when the business passes through each of these stages by inquiring at both departments till they tell you.—Dickens: Little Dorrit, x. (1857).