| 单词 | cyclopean |
| 例句 | There, on the promontory, the blue-painted cannibals had piled up their cyclopean wall of unmortared stones, fourteen feet high and equally thick, with terraces on the inside from which they could hurl their flints. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The muscles in her right eye have been weak since she was a child, and every so often the eye drifts to one side, giving her a vaguely cyclopean air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun at this hour shone as far, as deep, as mercilessly into the room as the television set, striking it squarely in its unblinking cyclopean eye. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Back in the family circle, I remarked to myself how like a cyclopean eye was the belly of the red-hot stove. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of these cars radiates that same sense of possession, of intimacy with the night and the cyclopean metropolis. When Cars Ruled the Night: New York City, 1974-1976 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Of course, the short, goggled and sometimes cyclopean minions are on hand, engaging in a prison food fight and dancing in a cancan-like production number. Review: ‘Despicable Me 3’ Suggests a Franchise Running on Fumes 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z He’s a charming adventurer and chipper omnivore, part of that species of British writer who thinks nothing of taking on a cyclopean, seemingly indigestible subject and processing it into smaller, more edible bits. Review: ‘Pacific’ Is Simon Winchester’s Latest Big-Picture Book 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Because I am playing as Master Chief, the strange, cyclopean hero of the series, who exists explicitly to shoot things, I do. Halo 5 Is (a Lot) More of the Same 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z I am a strange, cyclopean thing that exists to shoot other things, and it’s easy to find them in Halo. Halo 5: Guardians Review: A Mediocre Story With Terrific Multiplayer 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Through Google’s tiny cyclopean display, I notice the temperature outside is 53F and rising. Banning Google Glass While Driving? 2013-03-27T06:10:00Z What gorgeous swing, and how the very bases of the earth seem to tremble at the sledge-hammer blows from the cyclopean fist of this musical Attila. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z It is one of the most ancient cyclopean fortresses in Ireland, or, perhaps, in the world. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z There is evidently a great advance in artistic accomplishment and in poetical feeling, from the rude cyclopean remains of the annals of Ennius to the stately proportions and elaborate workmanship of the Aeneid. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z And receiving no answer, he gave such a blow at the door with his powerful cyclopean leg that it burst the lock with a loud noise. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Even the great, and often admired, subterraneous aqueduct, or Cloaca of ancient Rome is considered as belonging to this cyclopean architecture, remains of which exist also near Argos and in several other parts of Greece. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z Others weather into large cuboidal blocks which may produce structures resembling cyclopean masonry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Far ahead the foremost were rising, an undulating sea of heads and shoulders, as the cyclopean stairs, a cold bank of white marble, broad and gentle of slope, climbed toward the Royal Porch. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z These ruins, like some in the the Old World, are often called cyclopean, on account of the size of the blocks of stone used in their construction. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z The cyclopean walls with which Southern Europe abounds, and which have withstood the all-destroying tooth of time for thousands upon thousands of years—who built them? The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z The sable clouds, like the curtain of some cyclopean stage, seemed suddenly drawn aside as if by an invisible hand. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Across the windows on the avenue was the cyclopean eye of the Metropolitan tower, which she saw always every night with her last peeping glance from her covers—enormous eye, bulging, swollen with curiosity. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z The human cyclopean monstrosities, for example, might be regarded as reversions to the single-eyed sea-squirts, who are possibly the Ascidian precursors of the vertebrates. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z From one of these recesses a passage, whose floor is a single cyclopean stone eight feet long, leads to another recess, smaller than the first ones. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Of these cyclopean remains, as they were often called, no one knew the builders or the history, and they were considered as the labors of the fabulous heroes of a traditional epoch. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Secondly, a cyclopean exhibition of Caesarism, discipline, the regimentation of workers, and the convertibility of the Big Stick and the Bible, with a preference to the Big Stick as a panacea. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z It made for a stilted conversation—Ryden was speaking, I was essentially texting—and through my cyclopean robot eye I watched him gamely simulate a facial expression of equanimity. I'll Have My Robots Talk to Your Robots 2011-02-17T22:00:00Z These summits are remarkable, not only for their great height, but also for their apparent symmetrical arrangement in parallel lines, sometimes in pairs facing each other across this cyclopean passage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z In Dun Aengus, the strange cyclopean circular structure, and hence most likely sun-temple, on Aranmore, we have another example of the localization of the Aengus myth. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z There are a few remains of old cyclopean walls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" An example of this is found in the popular legend of its having once been inhabited by a cyclopean tribe, a race of giants, "half human, half divine." The Story of Malta He was, as he expressed it, too "cyclopean" for him. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. A few hundred yards inland from the rugged beach there rises gradually a second or inner ring of dead coral, which towards the interior falls away perpendicularly, thus surrounding the island like a cyclopean wall. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II In the same manner, each of the other circular but less important cyclopean structures on Aranmore and elsewhere in west Ireland may have been structures for closely related sun-cults. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Having reached the top of the mountain, I found a large crater divided into two parts by what seemed a cyclopean wall. The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 The future rose before her like a cyclopean wall, which could not be scaled or dug under and in which there was no door. Shadows of Flames A Novel In the islet of Lele, close to Kusaie, at the eastern extremity of Micronesia, the ruins present the appearance of a citadel with cyclopean ramparts built of large basaltic blocks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The vastness of the room had dwarfed it somewhat, but now, almost upon it and with their own sizes as standards of comparison, they were amazed and awed at its cyclopean girth. The Sphere of Sleep And in the center of it stood a dark tower of stone, a cyclopean bulk that Stark knew must go down an unguessable distance to its base on the bedrock. Black Amazon of Mars He has a "call" to the little shed at the corner of the street where "arrack" is illicitly sold by a cyclopean Arab. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 The road itself was only a foot-path across a melancholy moor, covered with heather and boulders, and encompassed by cyclopean wrecks of mountains, the vapory outlines of which suggested nothing but endless ruin. Prisoners of Conscience Far above was the Acropolis, with cyclopean ramparts above which rose the high-roofed temples and public buildings. Sónnica Beyond, through retreating columns, were cyclopean arches and towers whose summits were lost in clouds that the lightning rent. Mary Magdalen Culture’s child, Lapped in luxurious laws of line and lilt, Shrank from him shuddering, who was roughly built As cyclopean temples. Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today The roof was vaulted, and at the farther end of the apartment there was a stairway constructed of the same cyclopean stones as the rest of the edifice. A Castle in Spain A Novel A titanic flaming gas vent spouted like a cyclopean torch from the peak of a nearby mountain. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 As the Greek approached the Acropolis, he admired the cyclopean walls of great stones laid with rare art, solidly fitted without mortar-joints. Sónnica The ruined farm-house lies at the foot of a cyclopean structure. The Mayas, the Sources of Their History Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries Seaward stretched the Breakwater, a cyclopean wall of red bowlders heaped up in confusion to make a lee on that storm-swept shore. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore The roof was arched, and all the stones were of cyclopean dimensions. A Castle in Spain A Novel But the heavy bullet bothered the cyclopean reptile no more than a sting of a mosquito. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 The cyclopean walls, the imposing edifices, the subterranean aqueducts, the mountain terraces, of Peru tell the same tale as pyramids and temples, towers and palaces, in Egypt, Assyria or India. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 Even the two eyes have been known to unite into a single eye, forming a cyclopean monster, as have the two ears, though naturally standing so far apart. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) The only form of the arch observed, is that called the cyclopean arch, which is made by one course of stones overlapping another, till the two walls meet, and a flat stone covers the space. Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846 A cyclopean wall rises from earth to heaven. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Of such cyclopean style, though it is a small specimen, is the Chûn cromlech, standing near. The Cornwall Coast The effrontery is cyclopean, but our supineness and indifference are deplorable and inexcusable. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology The bare precipitous rocks rise up on either side like two cyclopean towers, flanking the gateway of the Cevennes. The Huguenots in France The dangers that threatened me assumed cyclopean proportions as I marshalled them. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated While admiring the cyclopean architecture of the "reverend pile" I was accosted by a man in uniform, evidently The Warden, with a cheerful salutation. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 The masonry is of different character from that cyclopean piling of boulders which was all the earlier men had known of building. The Cornwall Coast We may add that if the quarry yields a rock that breaks up naturally into small sized blocks, it is the height of economic folly to specify large sized cyclopean blocks. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs They somewhat resemble the cyclopean fabric near Argos, called the Treasury of Atreus. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America This style in its beginning is best seen in the cyclopean ruins of Tughlakábád and the tomb of the Emperor Tughlak Sháh, and in some mosques in and near Delhi. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir Even in fair summer weather suspicion of ancient and implacable terror lurks in the shadow of those cyclopean gateways, and stalks over the unyielding, rock-hewn pavements of those solemn mediæval streets. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance We note with keen interest their expressions of hope for the control of this cyclopean menace. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912 Where the rubble stones are very large it is now customary to use the term "cyclopean masonry" instead of rubble concrete. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Prehistoric giants had played with dolmens and cyclopean boulders, and left their toys scattered in confusion. The Car of Destiny From the mining towns that they built in the jungle, surrounded by cyclopean walls and adorned with grotesque stone images, came the stores of gold with which the Sidonians enriched King Solomon. Sacrifice From the beginning to the close, this part of the "Dies Iræ" is simply cyclopean; words cannot describe its overwhelming power. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers And the whole vast cycle of events was but a detail of a cyclopean plan. The Street That Wasn't There Every curl swung a load of broken frozen pieces against the bows and bends, and the shocks resounded through her like blows from cyclopean hammers. The Frozen Pirate I slung my rifle over my shoulder and made up my mind to start some other time on the cyclopean task I had then so nearly begun. In the Forbidden Land Here there is a mere heap of ruin, with cisterns, and fragments of arches, large columns, and capitals; also a very rough cyclopean square building of brown striped flint in huge masses. Byeways in Palestine These appear to have been of cyclopean architecture, corresponding with the gigantic bodies of the race. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria The echoes took up the sounds, hurling them back and forward among the cliffs as if cyclopean mountain spirits were playing tennis with boulders. Rivers of Ice There is no lime on the island, so that the blocks are put together on the cyclopean plan, without cement. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes It sees you a portly, pursy, foolish Undine struggling awkwardly from out a cyclopean vat of beer. Europe After 8:15 It is not enough that she should be armed with strong hands, planted on large feet, and decorated in the German's favorite rococo manner of abounding breasts, to gratify his cyclopean aspirations. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Before our eyes rose majestically the colossal shell of a palace, with carved golden walls, a vast courtyard, cyclopean round towers, and wonderful windows full of sky and dreams. The Heather-Moon Of stone bridges in Great Britain, the earliest were the cyclopean bridges still existing on Dartmoor, consisting of stone piers bridged by stone slabs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Milton's genius was cast in a cyclopean mold, and needed distances remote as heaven and hell to give right perspective to his figures, and his supreme art concerns itself with Satan, and archangels, and God. A Hero and Some Other Folks It is the best example of cyclopean stone forts that remains in Ireland, and by authoritative antiquaries is said to be at least 2,000 years old. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway One of the towers or forts, on an elevation to the westward, and of somewhat cyclopean construction, passes popularly for "St. Paul's Prison." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. It seemed she had come to dwell in a land deserted by some cyclopean race. The Two-Gun Man "We must escape from the guards outside the prison," said Geoffrey, looking down at Sydney and the Duke, who were doing cyclopean work under the eye of the Warder. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow How much more attractive a railroad roundhouse, with iron monsters on its converging tracks, each with his cyclopean eye of fire, each panting deeply with slow jets of steam! The Mayor of Warwick As the road winds along we can see Staigue-an-or, with its cyclopean mounds, lying low and dwarfed on the hillside. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway The eyes of certain fish embryos may be fused into a single cyclopean eye by adding magnesium chloride to the water in which they live. The Breath of Life A cyclopean and dazzling staircase thronged by moving angelic shapes, harping mute harps, stretched from sea to sky, melting into the milky way like the tail of a starry serpent. Visionaries Young Mervyn had gone down the steps to see it duly placed; a murky, fiery light; came up, against which the descending figures looked black and cyclopean. The House by the Church-Yard Seas and floods divide before him; hosts numberless as the sands are scattered at his appearance; cyclopean walls fall prone at his trumpet-blast. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works The cyclopean structure in the vicinity points to the place as being of importance in pre-historic times. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Several of the cyclopean riffles lead from the cave cliff to the stream. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Out of the sky, as if rising from worlds beyond the horizon, a cyclopean phantasm of clouds took form. The Eternal Maiden Once more a cyclopean rocket twisted its fiery way across the sky, from horizon to zenith, and on, and on, in tremendous flight, to horizon again. A Daughter of the Snows I was impressed by its strength not only because of the wide moats but because of the series of earthen fortifications faced with cyclopean stonework through which an invading force must wind its way. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People Culture's child, Lapped in luxurious laws of line and lilt, Shrank from him shuddering, who was roughly built As cyclopean temples. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 9, 1892 Nothing more nor less is it than a cyclopean, rounded dome, split in half as cleanly as an apple that is divided by a knife. Dutch Courage and Other Stories Over the white expanse, formed by the countless clefts and indentations of the slope, cyclopean shadows took form, and like eldritch figures joining their hands in a wild dance, loomed terrifyingly before the two men. The Eternal Maiden As throughout India all ancient cyclopean structures are even now attributed to the Pandavas, so all similar structures in the West were anciently ascribed to the Pelasgians. Five Years of Theosophy He portrays ladders that scale bulky joists, poles of incredible thickness, cyclopean block and tackling. Promenades of an Impressionist The whole is heated by a cyclopean chimney, which devours a load of wood at a mouthful, and before which a mastodon might be roasted. The Cross of Berny He writes a few lines of epic directness and cyclopean vigor and naturalness, and then obtrudes himself and his mission. Emerson and Other Essays They saw the gigantic shadows of celestial ahmingmah passing behind the clouds . . . and here and there were the cyclopean adumbrations of great caribou, and creatures for which they did not have a name. The Eternal Maiden Infernal glimmers disclose ranged lines of them, as long as roads, slender and trembling spaces of night, which daylight and even sunshine leave befouled with darkness and cyclopean dirt. Light President Barbicane and the members of the Gun Club warmly congratulated the engineer Murchison; his cyclopean work had been accomplished with extraordinary rapidity. The Moon-Voyage There it joins the cyclopean wall which comes down from the citadel on the east side of the town. A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste He hung so much over the side of the chair, that if it had not been one of cyclopean clumsiness and weight, he would have borne it to the floor. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 The cell was large, and if it was the bottom of a well, it must have been a cyclopean one. The Man Who Laughs Or must Fate act the same grey farce again, And wait, till one, amid Time's wrecks and scars, Speaks to a ruin here, 'What poet-race Shot such cyclopean arches at the stars?' The Wild Knight and Other Poems President Barbicane and the members of the Gun Club warmly congratulated their engineer Murchison; the cyclopean work had been accomplished with extraordinary rapidity. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon The monastery wall has only a few stones from the cyclopean wall in it, and they are set in among rubble, and are plainly a few pieces from the upper wall above the gate. A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste Thus, this cyclopean operation may be continuously conducted with an amount of power prodigiously inferior, in proportion, to the results accomplished. Edison, His Life and Inventions As we passed, there arose upon our left sheer walls of black basalt blocks, cyclopean, towering fifty feet or more, broken here and there by the sinking of their deep foundations. The Moon Pool The engineering difficulties were great, the dredging and filling a cyclopean task. Burning Daylight It belongs to the age of Herod; we see the same cyclopean stones, with the same surface draftings as at Jerusalem. The Book of Delight and Other Papers This is also a piece of the earliest cyclopean wall, and it is built just at the eastern edge of the hill where it falls off very sharply. A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste But this has not shaken her cyclopean sagacity as to which is the natural thing and which the artificial. Alarms and Discursions Those cyclopean buildings, those high, high arches, those enormous walls, left C�sar overcome. Cæsar or Nothing In this fact lies, too, the explanation of the cyclopean style of building which characterizes our most ancient buildings. Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. We would point out these radiant avenues of return; but sometimes we feel in our hearts that we sound but cockney voices as guides amid the ancient temples, the cyclopean crypts sanctified by the mysteries. Imaginations and Reveries But the rest of the cyclopean wall of Præneste is very ancient, certainly a century, perhaps two or three centuries, older than the part from the Portella down. A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste "Great without small makes a bad wall," says a quaint Greek proverb, which seems to go back to cyclopean times. The Pleasures of Life Climb hence—it is not far—to the village of Civitella, now called Bellegra, a prehistoric fastness with some traces of "cyclopean" defences. Alone Loughrigg rises up like a cyclopean wall between us and the wind.' Phantom Fortune, a Novel And she looked blankly around her at the great, cyclopean walls and high, weather-beaten towers, gaunt yet picturesque in the morning sunshine. The House of Whispers I was led by his note to examine every stone in the cyclopean wall around the whole city, but no further inscription was forthcoming. A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste The earlier Greek buildings are cyclopean, that is, of stone fitted together without mortar. Town Geology As I stood there a woman's shrill scream of excruciating pain reached me, notwithstanding those cyclopean walls. The Czar's Spy The Mystery of a Silent Love Mark Twain is a master in the art of broad contrast; incongruity lurks on the surface of his humour; and there is about it a staggering and cyclopean surprise. Mark Twain On numerous islands in Polynesia there are cyclopean ruins utterly out of keeping with their present size and population. The Naturalist in Nicaragua This map shows these wall alignments and the changes in direction of the cyclopean wall on the east of the city. A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste The cyclopean eye of the ship's searchlight blazed up, and the next instant, out from the gloom leaped a little craft, on the deck of which a man stood waving a lantern. The Silver Horde We would point out these radiant avenues of return; but sometimes we feel in our hearts that we sound but cockney choices, as guides amid the ancient temples, the cyclopean crypts sanctified by the mysteries. AE in the Irish Theosophist Or it was like some cyclopean sea-beast sitting above London and letting down its tentacles bewilderingly on every side, a monstrosity in that starless heaven. The Ball and the Cross In the far distance were disappearing two huge balls of colour, orange and yellow, for all the world like perambulating poppies of cyclopean breed. Revolution, and Other Essays The grim old place, with its towers, its dimly-lit long stone corridors, cyclopean ivy-clad walls, narrow windows, and great panelled chambers, breathed an atmosphere of the long ago. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo Its public monument is a cyclopean prison: save for the desert around the Great Northern Goods Depot, its only open ground is a malodorous cattle-market. Thyrza A magic key that opens the cyclopean cavern to whole tribes fleeing before the enemy! The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin A flight of shattered, cyclopean steps lifted to a ledge and here a crumbling fortress stood. The Metal Monster The sides of the mound are strewn with cyclopean blocks of vitrified granite, which evidently originally formed part of the fortifications. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples Without making due allowance for that mysterious earlier civilisation, older than the Incas, whose cyclopean buildings are the wonder of travellers, Garcilasso attributes the introduction of civilisation to his own ancestors. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 The zigzag paths resembled faint tracings scratched on the wall of a cyclopean blockhouse. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard In spite of these hideous details, and though he looked fully seventy, he did not lack a certain cyclopean dignity; he had aristocratic manners and the confident demeanor of a rich man. Massimilla Doni Within the sea of light I glimpsed shapes cyclopean, unnameable. The Metal Monster Yet another series of cyclopean monuments are known under the name of NANETAS, and are not unlike overturned boats. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples In the second place, in one of its cyclopean moments the race had arisen and shoved back its frontier several thousand miles. The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke The brilliant moon gave us a superb view of the volcano, a gray-brown mass rising, expanding and curling in with a profile like a monstrous cyclopean face. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Undoubtedly it was a cyclopean ruin built of great blocks of coloured stone which seemed to have been shattered by earthquake or explosion. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot I am a schoolboy Who hath not learned his lesson, and who stands Ashamed and silent in the awful presence Of the great master of antiquity Who built these walls cyclopean. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Colossal enterprises will be projected and carried through, and combinations of capital and federations of labor be effected on a cyclopean scale. War of the Classes They swayed backward and forward, panted, sweated, like some cyclopean, many-legged monster rising from the lower deeps. The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke And how my hatred for him grew and grew, during that fearful time, to cyclopean dimensions. The Sea Wolf |
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