| 单词 | sphinx |
| 例句 | The sphinx talks only in puzzles and riddles, and is violent when given the wrong answer. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared at my feet and Elsbeth smiled like a sphinx, like something had happened and she wanted me to guess what it was. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z A lamassu is pretty much the Persian version of a sphinx: a mishmash animal, with the head of a man, the body of an ox, and the wings of an eagle. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z One Bay Area sports scribe took to calling him the “sphinx of Berkeley” and wondered if he even so much as said hello to his wife in the evening these days. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He gathered us around a thirteen-foot-tall stone column with a big sphinx on the top, and started telling us how it was a grave marker, a stele, for a girl about our age. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Illyrio pointed out the smooth stone plinth on which the second sphinx once stood, now grown over with moss and flowering vines. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Greeks had also plundered interior sites, such as Heliopolis, for sphinxes, obelisks, columns, and so on, with which to decorate their public spaces. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “And the Pharaoh’s pyramid and sphinx would be sandy if they weren’t made out of Legos.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Or a monstrous mysterious sphinx, aloof from all that lives. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The gateway to the Long Bridge was a black stone arch carved with sphinxes, manticores, dragons, and creatures stranger still. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “And a sphinx. Well, good day to you.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The sphinx and pyramids were built by people fed on crops originally native to the Fertile Crescent, not to Egypt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Laughter in the presence of an Egyptian sphinx or an Assyrian bird-beast was inconceivable; but it was perfectly natural in Olympus, and it made the gods companionable. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Highly intelligent, the sphinx delights in puzzles and riddles. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If the riddle was too hard, he could keep silent, get away from the sphinx unharmed, and try and find an alternative route to the center. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She stared in awe at the carved wooden screen and the twin sphinxes that sat beside the door. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Without her scandalous mane of hair and her sphinx eyes, she looked fifteen. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Prime Minister had hoped beyond hope that dragons and sphinxes would be the worst of it, but no. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She places a stern-looking Henry Moore at the end of a row of moulded torsos, the biggest of which is shrouded in shadow so it resembles a sphinx. Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974 ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:32Z Her face bears an uncanny likeness to her sphinx. Kara Walker Creates a Confection at the Domino Refinery 2014-04-25T14:00:08Z On the contrary, she was sweet, bashful and stolid, more sphinx than diva. | Bristol Dances in Circles 2010-11-24T12:08:00Z That work focused on an enormous sugar sphinx looming over the interiors of the old Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn. Does Public Art Have an Afterlife? 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Like the sphinx in Egypt, this one presides over a site of ruins—after the show ends on July 6th, the factory is destined for the wrecking ball. Sour sweet 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The sphinx crouches in a position that’s regal and yet totemic of subjugation—she is “beat down” but standing. Kara Walker's Radical Domino Sugar Sculpture 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z The appearance also follows Walker's sensational installation of a massive sugar sphinx at the old Domino Sugar factory in New York, a commission for the arts nonprofit Creative Time. Kara Walker on the bit of sugar sphinx she saved, video she's making 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Western archaeologists in Turkey, who asked not to be indentified for fear of repercussions, conceded that the sphinx would be well preserved in the recently upgraded museum at Hattusa. Turkey Presses Harder for Return of Antiquities 2011-05-25T20:25:47Z The work was dominated by an enormous sugar-covered sphinx with the head of a black woman, on a site where sugar cane harvested by slave labor once arrived by boat from the Caribbean. Brooklyn Museum Picks Anne Pasternak as New Director 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z A standout is “The Empress,” an opulent large-breasted sphinx adorned with a crown, which served for a time as the artist’s living quarters. The Artists and Designers Making Tarot Decks for Today 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Estimates start at a few hundred dollars each for pieces depicting pigeons, greyhounds, rabbits, rams, dolphins, turkeys, owls, buffalos, sphinxes and fauns. At the Met, Honoring Kimonos and a Scholar of the Same 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z For the bits of old tunes he draws from the mysterious motifs, called “sphinxes,” in Schumann’s “Carnaval” for piano. Music Review: Oliver Knussen in Composer Portraits 2013-04-19T21:04:30Z By then, the sphinx was already more than a thousand years old, and sand had buried it up to its neck. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Beyoncé, America’s luminous sphinx of a superstar, turned 34 years old, and her fans’ enthusiasm around the event falls somewhere between birthday celebration and national holiday. On Beyoncé’s Birthday, a ‘Bey Day’ Celebration Fit for a Queen 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z “In some ways, doing a project like this is a bit of a nose-thumbing at detractors, naysayers, haters,” Ms. Walker said of her Domino sphinx. Kara Walker Creates a Confection at the Domino Refinery 2014-04-25T14:00:08Z The choice is made and the woman walks on, followed at a distance by a sphinx cat. American Gods recap: season one, episode three – the man with fire in his eyes 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z Chariots, sphinxes and cherubs perch on the prosceniums. Antiques: ?Home Theaters? for the Victorian Age 2010-12-16T22:35:56Z The Banksy frenzy kicked up a notch on Tuesday, when residents in Queens poured over a brick sculpture of a sphinx, deliberating whether it was a genuine “Banksy.” Banksy’s New York Madness Hits a Snag 2013-10-23T22:04:29Z There are just two of us — Selznick and the reader — lying side by side in the belly of a sphinx. Brian Selznick’s Lockdown Masterpiece 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z When has the sphinx ever had a home? Kara Walker's Radical Domino Sugar Sculpture 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z But slavery, the sphinx and sugar are too overt and too embedded in this rough, sugarcoated place. Art Review: ‘A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby’ at the Domino Plant 2014-05-11T20:41:02Z One purchase was an ancient marble sphinx that the Brinkmanns have recolorized for the exhibition using 3-D printing technology — a result of collaboration with four departments at the Met, including science research and objects conservation. That Painted Greek Maiden at the Met: Just Whose Vision Is She? 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z A Greta Garbo film, arriving 14 years later, painted her as a sphinx fatale who brought men to their knees and held Europe in her dominatrix grip. Paulo Coelho’s ‘Spy’ uncovers the life of Mata Hari 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Even in her youth, she had a sphinx’s smile, a husky alto and an often amused, slightly weary gaze, as if she had already seen more than you ever would. How Helen McCrory Shone, Even in a Haze of Mystery 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Operating from the assumption, always, that history can be found out and outed, Walker’s sphinx shows up our assumptions: She has “black” features but is white? Kara Walker's Radical Domino Sugar Sculpture 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z Pinnacles and sphinxes sprouted from chairs, brackets and inkwells, and shelves were packed with busts of Patrick Henry and Washington Irving, among other luminaries. Antiques: Pottery by David Drake, a Slave Craftsman in Edgefield, S.C. 2012-08-30T21:17:32Z Kara Walker was the guest of honor at last night’s Creative Time benefit to celebrate the artist’s 75-foot-high white sphinx sculpture made of sugar in the decommissioned Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. | A Sweet Celebration of Kara Walker’s Giant Sugar Sculpture 2014-05-07T22:00:43Z The first novel by the filmmaker and artist Miranda July is like one of those strange mythological creatures that are part one thing, part another — a griffin or a chimera, perhaps, or a sphinx. Miranda July’s ‘The First Bad Man’ 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z She sat next to another lioness like a sphinx, with giant paws crossed in front of her, basking in the last warm rays of the sun as she squinted at us through one eye. The Wonder Women of Botswana Safari 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Doubters — and there are more than a few — might read the sphinx as being all about inflating Ms. Walker’s ego and status. Kara Walker Creates a Confection at the Domino Refinery 2014-04-25T14:00:08Z Some even reckon with a sexual attraction to centaurs or sphinxes or fish-tailed demigods. Dan Savage calls BS on the bad fantasies that make relationships even harder 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Two boys, lying on their backs inside a great wooden sphinx, pondering life’s riddles. Brian Selznick’s Lockdown Masterpiece 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Scholars say it is a Roman attempt at imitating an Egyptian black granite sphinx dating from the reign of Tuthmosis III. Auctions: Wanted: Antiquities Beyond Reproach 2010-12-18T08:00:02Z Four white horses pranced on the obelisk-fringed stage and knelt before the pharaoh while a ballet troupe swirled among the palms and sphinxes. Revel in opera in Italy 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z If a pair of George II-style consoles topped with French terra-cotta sphinxes on either side of the living room fireplace set the formal tone, the 1950s neo-Cubist painting above the mantel gently tweaks it. Donna Livingston 2010-08-01T04:00:00Z Installation work gains — as Kara Walker’s sugar sphinx a few years ago showed — from its site; some of that is lost in the museum setting. Nari Ward Shows the Power of Objects at the New Museum 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z At the far end of dark factory, hunched and glowing, is a gigantic sugar-coated sphinx. Sour sweet 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The focus of this year’s Moth Week — the Sphingidae family, which includes what are commonly called hawk and sphinx moths — serve as important pollinators and food for larger animals. Spare Times for Children for July 24-30 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Walker’s sphinx is triumphant, rising from another kind of half world—the shadowy half world of slavery and degradation as she gives us a version of “the finger.” Kara Walker's Radical Domino Sugar Sculpture 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z They also found a colossal stone head believed to be of Caesarion, son of Cleopatra and previous lover Julius Caesar, and two sphinxes, one of them probably representing Cleopatra's father, Ptolemy XII. Divers explore sunken ruins of Cleopatra's palace 2010-05-25T21:56:00Z Carp have settled into a lily pond at the base of marble sphinxes by the sculptor Paul Manship. Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers Is Being Tended Once Again 2012-07-19T21:45:31Z When the sphinx arrived back in Turkey to much fanfare last year, permits for reconditioning and restoration work were renewed but those for digging remained outstanding. Turkey wages 'cultural war' in pursuit of its archaeological treasures 2013-01-21T19:16:05Z The sphinx is something like Ms. Walker’s realization of that dream, but as a racist’s nightmare: The figure may be wearing a mammie’s kerchief, but she’ll never be beaten into submission. Kara Walker Creates a Confection at the Domino Refinery 2014-04-25T14:00:08Z In this softened version of the Capote original, she is a sphinx whose secret has been coyly removed. Breakfast at Tiffany's ? review 2011-01-20T22:00:03Z “I am determined not to renew the excavation license for Hattusa if the sphinx is not returned,” Mr. Gunay said in February. Turkey Presses Harder for Return of Antiquities 2011-05-25T20:25:47Z And combines that with business confessional, craftsmanship, C.G.I. burning vehicles, wastelands, random smokestacks and 13 garments enshrined in video shorts by Nick Knight that suggest, variously, the sphinx, eagles, aliens and warrior queens. London Fashion Week Gives Good TV 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z The Virginia creeper sphinx moth looks like a delta-winged aircraft, camouflaged for action. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The reimagined sphinx has gilded feathers on its red and blue wings; a golden choker decorates its neck. That Painted Greek Maiden at the Met: Just Whose Vision Is She? 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Her invisibility solidified her reputation as the great sphinx of modern R&B, but "Soldier of Love" stands as Sade's most expressive album. Sade breaks her silence and drops her guard 2011-08-11T21:02:04Z But Germany says the return of the sphinx is a one-of-a-kind deal. Turkey Presses Harder for Return of Antiquities 2011-05-25T20:25:47Z The story repeats itself with variations in the case of Mr. Day’s green porphyry sphinx carved in Rome in the Egyptian style possibly at the end of the first century A.D. Auctions: Wanted: Antiquities Beyond Reproach 2010-12-18T08:00:02Z Of the sphinx sculpture itself, the left hand alone is being preserved, as Ms. Walker’s souvenir of the landmark work. ‘Marvelous Sugar Baby’ as a Contribution to Ephemeral Art 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Its five long chapters — each written by a different scholar — cover unicorns, dragons, griffins, sphinxes and half-human creatures. Perspective | The Loch Ness monster may not exist, but such mythical beasts fascinate for good reason 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Madame de Pompadour’s face has been carved into two stone sphinxes. Inside France's $100 Million Palace Pompadour, A Royal Chateau Restored By A Press-Shy Philanthropist 2013-03-28T11:00:00Z Seeking something to counter that — “a gift, something that was promising” — the sphinx idea came to her and took hold. Kara Walker Creates a Confection at the Domino Refinery 2014-04-25T14:00:08Z “Both sides agreed that the sphinx is a singular case that is not comparable to other cases,” the German government said. Turkey Presses Harder for Return of Antiquities 2011-05-25T20:25:47Z The discovery includes marble caryatids and a pair of sphinxes. Round-Up: Ancient discoveries, wilderness art and Koons strikes again 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z She is a sphinx, reduced mostly to the extraordinary fact of her beauty. Revisiting a Utopian City With Fondness and Fury 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z The previous record holder was the 2002 competition for the Grand Egyptian Museum, near the Giza pyramids and sphinx on the outskirts of Cairo, which received 1,557 entries. Uncertain Guggenheim Helsinki draws record number of hopeful architects 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z An emotionally abusive relationship is not our duty, failure, or sphinx to conquer. Men aren't volatile riddles for women to solve 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z They then spent the ensuing months transforming this subterranean expanse into an immersive dreamscape of dripping lightbulbs, glittering sphinxes, mummified corpses and ruined temples. Artangel: Frontline warriors 2011-03-21T21:30:00Z There are 20-foot beamed ceilings and boldly patterned concrete tile floors, terra cotta sphinxes and French chairs made of steel and twine. Shaped by Mérida’s Artistic Soul 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z She opened her headline set with Only Girl In The World, performing in front of a giant sphinx. Rihanna closes Hackney Weekend 2012-06-25T05:35:39Z At one point, a young man hugs the massive sphinx and declares, "I feel safe." Kara Walker's sphinx draws less-charged reactions in person 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Over the years, we’ve seen the sphinx at the Pyramids, but have we ever wondered what was beyond that mystery? Kara Walker's Radical Domino Sugar Sculpture 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z In the Sophocles play, Oedipus, a traveler who is named king of Thebes after defeating a sphinx that terrorized the city, attempts to circumvent his fate only to meet it. A Plague on Your Houses: Reading Covid-19 Into Disease Onstage 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z And when she bursts into a happy grin near the end of the movie, she conveys the uncontainable joy of a liberated sphinx. | 'Puzzle': Solving Puzzles to Help With the Riddle of Midlife 2011-05-26T21:26:17Z His sketches depict Art Nouveau mermaids, Aztec Revival zigzags, Egyptian Revival sphinxes and medieval-looking armored knights. Antiques: Giving a Craftsman His Due 2012-09-27T21:56:26Z Of course, in its origins in the ancient world, the sphinx could be a riddler as well as a protector. Kara Walker Creates a Confection at the Domino Refinery 2014-04-25T14:00:08Z On the right, an expressionless, algae-colored sphinx dominates a lurid green sky. Artificial intelligence is restoring lost works by Klimt, Picasso and Rembrandt. Not everyone is happy about it. 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z The dealer also helped store the sphinx’s left hand, which was later exhibited in 2019 by the Deste Foundation on the island of Hydra in Greece. Does Public Art Have an Afterlife? 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z In the realm of the avant-garde, sphinxes are better company than schoolteachers. ‘The Adults’ and ‘99 Breakups’ at the FringeArts Festival in Philadelphia 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z The four-month exhibition will display some 50 works from the Louvre, including a sphinx statue and other artifacts linked to Greek, Egyptian and Mesopotamian culture, as well as objects from ancient Iran. In Iran, France blends hard talks with soft power at Louvre exhibit 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 is a charming addition to the Planet Calvino – a place cluttered with sphinxes, chimeras, knights, spaceships and viscounts both cloven and whole. Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 – review 2013-05-29T13:42:12Z The four-month exhibition will display some 50 works from the Louvre, including a sphinx statue and other artifacts linked to Greek, Egyptian and Mesopotamian culture, as well as objects from ancient Iran. In Iran, France blends hard talks with soft power at Louvre exhibit 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z They include a fragmentary white ceremonial weapon made from gypsum, a white marble pendant in the form of a seated four-legged animal, and a white quartz seal engraved with a seated sphinx. British Museum to Return Looted Antiquities to Iraq 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z They stretch toward the sidewalk like sleepy sphinxes, taking up a crazy amount of space. In Bed-Stuy, a New Store Is Like a Petting Zoo for Clothes 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z By the end, in one of the video’s best shots, she and the dancers are going wild in the Louvre basement, and topless men are jumping for joy in front of the sphinx. At the Louvre, Beyoncé and Jay-Z Are Both Outsiders and Heirs 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Last month archaeologists reached the outer wall of the tomb, which yielded two headless stone sphinxes. Ancient Greek Tomb Yields Two Large Statues 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Egyptian tomb reliefs and a painted sarcophagus appear beside Alexander Calder's colourful pyramids and a sphinx by Cocteau. 'Compulsive' art collector builds French museum to display ancient treasures 2011-03-27T00:06:09Z For most people, that position, a bit like the sphinx pose in yoga, is hard to hold for more than a minute on dry land. Wind and waves turn a classic ocean race into 32 miles of torture 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z The hieroglyphics and artwork on the courtyard walls outside match the original theater design, including the sphinxes, ancient markers of mystery and quiet. We take an exclusive tour of Hollywood's restored Egyptian Theatre, opening this fall 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Less than a month before that, on June 2 or 3, two large sphinx sculptures located at the entrance of the Scottish Rite Temple in Washington, D.C., were "severely damaged" and smeared with "filth." QAnon's weirdest obsession: Why does the radical far right fear the Masons? 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z “I have kind of Labrador Retriever energy and Hannah is more a sphinx of a cat who wants to be left alone.” A great read turned into a dream role for Jennifer Garner 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered what appears to be a smiling ancient sphinx. ‘Magnificent’ smiling sphinx of Roman emperor found at ancient Egypt site 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z The limestone sphinx with its "smiley face and two dimples" is thought to represent Roman Emperor Claudius. Egypt archaeology: Dig unearths smiling mini-sphinx which may represent Claudius 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z “President Isaias is considered a sphinx even by his regional peers,” Alan Boswell, the Horn of Africa director at the International Crisis Group, said. Slaughter on Eve of Ethiopian Peace Draws Accusations of War Crimes 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z The Chimera, like the Gorgon or the Greek sphinx — and unlike its Egyptian counterpart, which is male and benevolent — is a lady monster, a composite of terrors. Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Bridget is an independent woman in her 40s when she begins to tell us the story of her mother, Helen, or “Hen,” an emotional sphinx to her daughter. Review: A British cult favorite crosses over with a blistering novel about an inscrutable mum 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Ancient Egyptian sphinxes often represented a king or royal with the body of a lion, as a symbol of might and power. ‘Magnificent’ smiling sphinx of Roman emperor found at ancient Egypt site 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Pyramids, sphinx, mummies: Ancient Egypt exudes a powerful attraction. France fetes the man who solved the Rosetta Stone mystery 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z A wall section of colorfully glazed brick from Darius’ palace features a magnificent pair of sphinxes — seated, unlike their famous Egyptian cousins, who mostly recline. Review: A small but strong display of ancient agitprop from Persia comes to the Getty Villa 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z In the fourth stage, surrender, he has students use the sphinx pose to help them acknowledge their pain while recognizing their strength and resilience. Try Grief Yoga to release trapped emotions 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z In legend, the sphinx laid siege to the Greek city, demanding that travelers solve this riddle: What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the evening? Perspective | For years, a golden sphinx statue stood guard over Fort Holabird in Baltimore. Where is it now? 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z The smiling sphinx statue is not to be confused with the far larger sphinx at the Giza pyramid complex, which measures 73 meters long and 20 meters high. ‘Magnificent’ smiling sphinx of Roman emperor found at ancient Egypt site 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z I love the idea of the sphinx being an opening, not an ending. It's high time to put 'Women in the Picture,' an art historian argues 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Her clay sculpture is an interpretation of the Greek riddle of the sphinx: what goes on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon and three feet in the evening? Robot artist Ai-Da released by Egyptian border guards 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z A pair of stone sphinx statues that a couple bought for £300 and put in their garden for 15 years have sold at auction for almost £200,000. Stone sphinx statues from Suffolk garden fetch £195,000 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z “The sphinx is the symbol of knowledge and strength, and the 13 stripes add a patriotic meaning to the device,” wrote the Boston Herald. Perspective | For years, a golden sphinx statue stood guard over Fort Holabird in Baltimore. Where is it now? 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Unlike Jayapal, the senator – nicknamed “the sphinx from Phoenix” – has been opaque about her intentions, her goals and her complaints. Jayapal plays her cards right 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z But I did have doubts about my right, or my privilege, to write about the sphinx as a white woman. It's high time to put 'Women in the Picture,' an art historian argues 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z When Americans are hurting and everything is on the line, behaving like a sphinx is riddlesome — and disquieting. Opinion | Sinema Stars in Her Own Film 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z She is something of a tennis sphinx, insisting that the message that people receive from her is more important than whatever message she might be trying to deliver. To Play Tennis, Naomi Osaka Finds a New Purpose. So Far, So Good. 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z A 1957 Associated Press story about Fort Holabird began: “A golden sphinx … stands guard at the entrance of an inconspicuous building tucked away in a corner of this tiny military post.” Perspective | For years, a golden sphinx statue stood guard over Fort Holabird in Baltimore. Where is it now? 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z As part of the hero’s quest for knowledge, he has to pass a pair of deadly yellow sphinxes. The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z How, he asked, does the graffiti scrawled by delinquents spat out by a 20th-century democracy relate to a 2,000-year-old Corinthian column, a Roman bath, an Egyptian sphinx? Perspective | Yes, your kid could (probably) do this. But it might still be great art. The vehicles circled around Tahrir Square, the epicenter of Egypt’s revolution, which is now centered with an ancient obelisk and four statues of ram-headed sphinxes. Cairo’s mummies get a new home. And a grand procession on the way. 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z “A way to see the moths is looking at deep-throated flowers on summer nights, like Monarda, that the sphinx moths nectar at,” Mr. Cipkowski said. The Pleasures of Moth-Watching 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z The sphinx, the story continued, symbolized “the silence and knowledge taught the trainees who enter the building — which houses the Army Intelligence School.” Perspective | For years, a golden sphinx statue stood guard over Fort Holabird in Baltimore. Where is it now? 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z A decade ago, Beijing’s diplomats kept a low profile in world capitals — dark-suited sphinxes who rarely engaged with the press or the public. 'Put on a mask and shut up': China's undiplomatic diplomats hit back at critics 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z How, he asked, does the graffiti scrawled by delinquents spat out by a 20th-century democracy relate to a 2,000-year-old Corinthian column, a Roman bath, an Egyptian sphinx? Perspective | Yes, your kid could (probably) do this. But it might still be great art. The sphinx act drove onlookers wild, until they asked of Warhol the same question they’d asked of the Factory: What is going on inside there? Review: Was Andy Warhol a saint or scourge, genius or dolt? A new biography befits a great life 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Archaeologists and heritage experts fear vehicle exhaust will damage the four ram-headed sphinxes and an obelisk, currently en route to their new home in Tahrir Square. Egypt draws ire with artifacts’ move to busy Tahrir Square 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z For all those years, the sphinx stood guard. Perspective | For years, a golden sphinx statue stood guard over Fort Holabird in Baltimore. Where is it now? 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Over the weekend, Egyptian archaeologists also unearthed a dwarf limestone sphinx from a ditch in the southern desert province of Minya. Egyptian officials unveil new archaeological finds 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Archaeologists discovered a stunning sphinx statue at an ancient temple in southern Egypt in a separate project. Long-lost 2,200-year-old temple of Pharaoh Ptolemy IV discovered 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z With a throaty laugh, Walker tells me she is aware of this history, telling me a story about a former Tate director visiting her sugar sphinx. Turbine Hall artist Kara Walker: 'Apparently, the only thing I am is black' 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Waziri, the antiquities chief, said the four sphinxes are not part of the famed avenue of sphinxes in the city of Luxor. Egypt draws ire with artifacts’ move to busy Tahrir Square 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z The sphinx was briefly relocated to Fort Meade before heading west. Perspective | For years, a golden sphinx statue stood guard over Fort Holabird in Baltimore. Where is it now? 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z He described prime minister David Cameron as “a sphinx without a riddle”, and former Brexit minister David Davis as “thick as mince, lazy as a toad, and vain as Narcissus”. Dominic Cummings takes swipe at Grieve over confidence vote plan 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The largest sphinx in the western hemisphere is on the move for the first time in nearly 100 years. Huge sphinx begins journey to new spot in Philly museum 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z She calls the sphinx, despite its size, her “baby”, something she wanted to look after. Turbine Hall artist Kara Walker: 'Apparently, the only thing I am is black' 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z From a distance, the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure looks like a row of sphinxes attached at the ears. Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The setting is not quite Egypt — that’s where you’ll find the biggest sphinx of all, the Great Sphinx of Giza — but the sphinx must have welcomed the desert setting after 20 years in the Mid-Atlantic. Perspective | For years, a golden sphinx statue stood guard over Fort Holabird in Baltimore. Where is it now? 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z “If you compared Britain to a sphinx, the sphinx would be an open book by comparison,” Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, told the European Parliament on Wednesday at a meeting in Strasbourg, France. Alternate Brexit Plans Rejected; Theresa May Offers to Step Down 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z “If you compare Great Britain to a sphinx then the sphinx would seem to me an open book. We will see in the course of this week how this book will speak,” he said. Brexit in play: May's job on the line as parliament tries multiple... 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z In what might have been her final sphinx moment, she entered and exited in a wheelchair under the cover of darkness. Review: Yoko Ono gets a remarkable tribute from a new generation of sisterhood 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z When you get close enough, you can see that the heads of the sphinxes are really cranes and the haunches steel gates. Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z In the meantime, I noticed a curious statue in front of the Army Counter Intelligence Corps building: a sphinx. Perspective | For years, a golden sphinx statue stood guard over Fort Holabird in Baltimore. Where is it now? 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z “During the sphinx excavations and placed up-side-down next to the large sculpture’s stomach, the team discovered a smaller practice piece of another sphinx, perhaps carved by an apprentice,” archaeologists explain, in a blog post. Amazing ram-headed sphinx linked to King Tut’s grandfather discovered in Egypt 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z In another project, archaeologists discovered a stunning sphinx statue at an ancient temple in southern Egypt. Eight ancient painted mummies discovered in Egypt 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Thanks to the participation of 75 remarkable women, after several unreasonable decades, Yoko Ono was a sphinx no more. Review: Yoko Ono gets a remarkable tribute from a new generation of sisterhood 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z The gaze of the stone and painted sphinx. Contagion in tranquil shades of grey 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The sphinx went along for the ride, though presumably in a truck and not by padding along on its lion paws. Perspective | For years, a golden sphinx statue stood guard over Fort Holabird in Baltimore. Where is it now? 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Last year, for example, archaeologists discovered a stunning sphinx statue at an ancient temple in southern Egypt. Amazing ram-headed sphinx linked to King Tut’s grandfather discovered in Egypt 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Even a diminutive sphinx symbolized a fierce devotion to the temple gods, said Matthew Douglas Adams, a research scholar at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. The Newest Curse of the Mummy: Bad Drainage 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z They sit on all fours and gaze blankly ahead, more sphinx than lion. There’s a lion in London’s Trafalgar Square that eats words and roars AI-generated poetry 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z I glance at a photo hidden among the sphinx, a picture of a man and a child. Contagion in tranquil shades of grey 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z You will recall that the sphinx — a mythical creature dating to ancient Egypt that was also common in Greek mythology — had the body of a lion and the head of a human. Perspective | For years, a golden sphinx statue stood guard over Fort Holabird in Baltimore. Where is it now? 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z The sphinx was found at the site of a road connecting Luxor Temple and the Temple of Karnak, two vast ancient temple complexes on the east side of the Nile. Amazing ram-headed sphinx linked to King Tut’s grandfather discovered in Egypt 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z The sphinx represented royal power in pharaonic Egypt, combining the physical strength of a lion with the worldly might of a king. Archaeologists find sphinx at Egypt temple 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Yet the image that inspired this sphinx doesn’t hail from Egypt — it’s from Los Angeles. In installations at the Hammer and MOCA, Lauren Halsey riffs on the nature of space and black identity 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z One party colleague, a May critic, described her as “a sphinx without a riddle.” Special Report: One day at a time - Brexit the Theresa May way 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The sphinx is an enduring symbol for Army intelligence, said Army historian Michael E. Bigelow. Perspective | For years, a golden sphinx statue stood guard over Fort Holabird in Baltimore. Where is it now? 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Experts note that the sculpture was intended to crown the head of the larger sphinx. Amazing ram-headed sphinx linked to King Tut’s grandfather discovered in Egypt 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Inside, small vignettes turn up here and there, composed from little toys, knickknacks and accoutrements with African and African American ties — basketball players, Egyptian sphinxes, braided hair extensions, black ballerinas. Lauren Halsey takes a fantastic voyage in MOCA's 'we still here, there' 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z “There was an amazing South-Central sphinx that someone built and it’s on their front lawn,” says Lauren Halsey, as she scrolls through her phone to find the photo she recently snapped. In installations at the Hammer and MOCA, Lauren Halsey riffs on the nature of space and black identity 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z A sphinx moth, a species with a wingspan as much as 5in across, was reported by a baffled resident as being some sort of bird. 'Amazing but also concerning': weird wildlife ventures to northern Alaska 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z Why would the sphinx appeal to the men and women who work to understand an inscrutable enemy? Perspective | For years, a golden sphinx statue stood guard over Fort Holabird in Baltimore. Where is it now? 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z While the famous Great Sphinx of Giza on the outskirts of Cairo is the best known, there are a number of smaller sphinxes at other ancient Egyptian sites. Amazing ram-headed sphinx linked to King Tut’s grandfather discovered in Egypt 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z He found it in the ancient pyramids and the majestic sphinxes, with their undeniably African features. Opinion | Frederick Douglass’s Fight Against Scientific Racism 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z As for Melania,has it ever occurred to anyone that her silence is not because she is Slovenian sphinx, but simply because she has nothing to say? Opinion | Trump Hits Alps, but Melania Is Frosty in Florida 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z “Unless this is a sphinx moth caterpillar who has been stressed and agitated into displaying its osmeterium,” says Jackson. We Fact-Checked 8 Animal Emojis—Here's What We Found 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Because the sphinx is associated with wisdom and mystery. Perspective | For years, a golden sphinx statue stood guard over Fort Holabird in Baltimore. Where is it now? 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z “Reforming Rome is like cleaning the Egyptian sphinxes with a toothbrush,” Francis told the cardinals, bishops and priests who work for him. Pope denounces ‘cancer’ of cliques, ambition in Vatican 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z “Reforming Rome is like cleaning the Egyptian sphinxes with a toothbrush,” Francis told cardinals, bishops and priests who work for him on Thursday. Pope condemns 'cancer' of cliques in Christmas message to staff 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Speaking of …: It’s not a real Egyptian artifact, but a sphinx from the Cecil B. DeMille silent film “The Ten Commandments” is being unearthed in Guadalupe. Essential California: How a U.S. citizen was mistakenly targeted for deportation 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Among the priceless artefacts on show are a statue of a sphinx dating back to the 6th Century BC and a frieze depicting figures from the Koran. UAE unveils Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z It’s unclear where the five-foot, pot metal sphinx statue came from. Perspective | For years, a golden sphinx statue stood guard over Fort Holabird in Baltimore. Where is it now? 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z But I doubt you’ve heard of any World Wildlife Fund campaigns to protect the fabulous green sphinx moth, right? Opinion | Teenagers’ View of the News 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Where better to watch as a team of archaeologists unearth statues of Ramses and more than a dozen sphinxes in the sands of California than at Hollywood’s own Egyptian Theater? The Moviegoer, Sept. 17-23 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The North American walnut sphinx caterpillar produces a whistle that sounds just like a songbird's alarm call--and the whistle seems to startle birds. This Caterpillar Whistles While It Irks 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Known as “the Swedish sphinx” because of her deep fear of reporters and other strangers, she ironically became one of the most publicized women in the world while trying to guard her privacy. Niece, heiress to Greta Garbo fortune, dies at 85 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Thousands upon thousands of distinctive, green caterpillars will soon turn into white-lined sphinx moths. Forecast calls for an extra buggy spring and summer 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z He pointed at a black-and-green caterpillar, which before long would become a sphinx moth. The desert is in super bloom at Anza-Borrego state park 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Yet the adult, the Carolina sphinx moth, is the plant's preferred pollinator. Plant science: The plant as pugilist : Nature : Nature Research 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z The Egyptian-style pyramid sauna, flanked by sphinxes and the busts of pharaohs, is lined with 23-karat “genuine gold leaves imported from Germany,” according to a placard. A Korean Spa Offers Saunas, Bibimbap and a Taste of Home in New Jersey 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Ms. Feinstein might have started to demystify this sphinx with a traditional nominee courtesy call, but the Californian and other Judiciary Democrats abruptly cancelled the scheduled meetings and then skipped town for Christmas recess. ‘The Resistance’ vs. Trump’s Cabinet 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z There was a sphinx, a pagoda, and a battleship; a barn, a silo, and the Sydney Opera House. When a Country Melts 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Last Eid, he was selling about $400 a day worth of locally made perfumes, spices and papyrus paper emblazoned with portraits of pyramids and the sphinx. It used to be a busy Egyptian resort. Then an airplane fell from the sky. 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Crouched in the grass, they were turning their heads from side to side, like sphinxes nodding “no.” The Man Who Became a Goat 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Sir Winston, her black cat, a rescue pet adopted from the vet, perches like a sphinx on the arm of her chair. Unexpected friendship forms in Kansas City hospice 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The tower is laden with symbolic extras, including four 40-foot-tall “Guardian Spirits” surrounding the top of the tower; and two Assyrian sphinxes — part lion, part bird, part human — at the tower’s base. A World War I Memorial in Kansas City Is a Tribute to Giving 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Staying in Crystal Palace Park, these sphinxes are also considered in need of help. The stone dinosaurs and other treasures in danger - BBC News 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Scott Morrison has remained silent as the sphinx. Liberal leadership spill: Malcolm Turnbull ousts Tony Abbott as Australian PM – as it happened 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z This comes from the Greek myth of Oedipus, the first to successfully solve the sphinx’s riddle, although ancient accounts differ on exactly what riddle the sphinx asked. From Harry Potter Latin to Hunger Games Rome: the classical jokes hiding in your favourite children's books 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z By then, sphinx tourism was well under way. Sacred mystery: the photographers obsessed with the crumbling sphinx 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Two relatively new Greek sphinxes sit on the east side, marking an as-yet unoccupied family plot. The Nation’s First Planned Burial Ground 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z If only it were as easy as handing Woods a candy bar and watching him morph after his first bite from a sphinx back into golf’s American Pharoah. A Map for Tiger Woods: Jack Nicklaus’s Late Career 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Scott Morrison has remained silent as the sphinx. Liberal leadership spill: Malcolm Turnbull ousts Tony Abbott as Australian PM – as it happened 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z But on Wednesday, hearing one of the most important cases in his almost 10 years on the court, he turned into a sphinx. With Eyes on His Vote in Health Subsidies Case, Roberts Lets on Little 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z That sphinx is gone, its lone, towering, almost ominous presence sacrificed to the relentless demands of mass tourism. Sacred mystery: the photographers obsessed with the crumbling sphinx 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most egregious example is Hawaii’s fabulous green sphinx moth. Monarch butterfly doesn’t need so much help 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z The white petals on a night-blooming cactus, Ms. Sifton said, attract not the morning bee but a night flyer, the sphinx moth. Planting a Clock That Tracks Hours by Flowers 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z They captured global attention in August when archaeologists announced the discovery of vast tomb guarded by two sphinxes and circled by a 497-metre marble wall. Skeletal remains found at tomb from Alexander the Great's era 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Earlier stages of the excavation brought to light a magnificent carved stone lion, two sphinxes, two caryatids and a floor mosaic depicting the abduction of Persephone by Hades. Skeleton found in Alexander-era tomb 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z By 1889, in a print by A Weston and Co from Boston, the sphinx sits imposingly between two pyramids, its giant feet visible in the foreground. Sacred mystery: the photographers obsessed with the crumbling sphinx 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z "It is a sculpture of exceptional art," the ministry said, adding that fragments of the two sphinxes' wings were also found. Greek archaeologists unearth head of sphinx in Macedonian tomb 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z To keep the fragile plaster from cracking, the team covered the pieces of the sphinx in liquid consolidant and wrapped them in cheesecloth, Hamilton said. Archaeologists seek movie set in California sands 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z When crews went back, that sphinx was too damaged to retrieve but they found another. Archaeologists seek movie set in California sands 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z The fake sphinx is just part of a “simple set for television and film,” a hassled-sounding employee said on Monday. Chinese Developer's Fake Sphinx Has Egypt Seething 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z A beautifully composed landscape by Hamilton W Wright from 1923 shows a lone western woman being escorted towards the sphinx on a camel by two Egyptian guides. Sacred mystery: the photographers obsessed with the crumbling sphinx 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The narrative is mysterious and evocative, but as it goes on concern grows that it will not actually evoke anything - that it will be a sphinx without secrets. 'Rain' Review - Not Splashy, But A Quiet, Artistically Composed Fable 2013-10-03T15:57:00Z There are sphinx zombies encased in hard shells, pirate zombies that send parrots to steal your plants, and many, many more types you’ll encounter along the way. 'Plants vs. Zombies 2' Review: Growing Strong 2013-08-19T15:07:00Z This week, archaeologists excavated a crumbling plaster sphinx from the ruins. Archaeologists seek movie set in California sands 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z The blowup over the sphinx is only the latest in a series of well-publicized cases of fakes in China. Chinese Developer's Fake Sphinx Has Egypt Seething 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Boehner has also been something of a sphinx about his own immigration convictions. Legislative Gambit Could Revive Immigration Reform 2013-08-19T10:50:22Z Woods, 37, is an emotional sphinx, saving his expressiveness for when he has a wayward shot in the air or a birdie putt tracking to the pin. On Golf: García’s Racial Joke Shows Need for Truce With Tiger Woods 2013-05-23T01:10:36Z The stolen sphinx dated to the Ptolemaic era and was probably exported to Italy in the 1st Century AD. Italian police find stolen sphinx 2012-12-06T13:36:32Z The stage set itself was an impressive construction - inspired by ancient Egypt it featured a pyramid-shaped video screen, a glittering sphinx, banners scrawled with hieroglyphics and a rotating gold throne decorated with Rihanna's name. Rihanna makes 'history' at Hackney 2012-06-25T00:22:54Z In the poet’s vision the Egyptian sphinx stirs in the desert and the poet asks, “what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” Post-Jubilee, a Sobering Summer 2012-06-08T08:15:00Z Brendel said that this symphonic poem is a sphinx that no one can understand. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z What would be thought of an avenue nearly two miles long, lined with over twelve hundred colossal sphinxes? From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z “A riddle which one shrinks To challenge from the scornful sphinx.” The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z At times he was as silent and mysterious as the sphinx, at other times brimming over with mirth and merriment. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z The royal cangia, closely followed by the little bark, stopped before a huge marble stairway, whereof each step supported one of those sphinxes that Cleopatra so much detested. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z The next season, as no sphinx appeared to trouble them, they left their door wide open. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z In the granite lions and sphinxes there is always an aspect of power in repose which is very impressive, and strikes one with awe. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z I do not believe there is anything of the sphinx about Louis Napoleon. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Another form which also, to a certain extent, is incorruptible, is that of the sphinx. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z Between each two pillars a colossal sphinx of basalt, crowned with the pshent, bent forward her oblique-eyed face and horned chin, and gazed into the hall with a fixed and mysterious look. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z Outside in the wind the black hornblende sphinx kept watch on those who came and went, mourning for their departed. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z These colossal temples, these silent sphinxes, seem oppressed with some great mystery which they cannot reveal. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z Now, Louis Napoleon certainly had, and perhaps even still has, his frailties of this class, but I reject the Lauzun or Don Juan theory quite as resolutely as the sphinx theory. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z In Worcester Cathedral is a compound of man, ox, and lion, very different from the sphinx or cherubim shapes, being a grotesque deprived of all the original poetry of the conception. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z Instead of sphinxes, bull-headed idols—impassive spectators of nocturnal frenzy and the furies of orgie—were seated upon thrones of stone, like patient hosts awaiting the opening of the banquet. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z The most famous of Hittite reliefs is here—a double-headed eagle “displayed” on the flank of one of the gateway sphinxes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z A man sphinx; a sphinx having the head of a man and the body of a lion. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Those most concerned walked the streets with the faces of sphinxes. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z According to Dr. Birch, the sphinx is to be read as being the symbol of Harmachis or “the sun on the horizon.” The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z Of what invisible flock are those huge sphinxes the guardians, crouching like dogs on the watch, that they never close their eyelids, and forever extend their claws in readiness to seize? One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z Nevertheless, Hamlet, if he had lived longer, might have said that no philosophy would ever solve the riddle of the sphinx; that we never know, only name, things. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The oldest memorial of this combination is perhaps retained in that winged sphinx, which belongs to the time of the dominion of the shepherds in Egypt. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z Yet not a sphinx of them all would tell how long the sea had been battering at their rugged features, or of the fire that had baked their tooth-defying pudding—Old Ocean's daily repast. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Another sphinx in the same sedilia is of the winged variety. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z Were you addressing a sphinx of granite in the arid sands of Egypt, you would have more chance of melting her. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z In the distance he could see the crags of Bryant's Monument Mountain—the "headless sphinx" of his own "Wonder-Book"—rising above the gleaming lake whose margin was to be his later home. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z In the graves on Hymettus pictures in relief of female winged sphinxes are found with clothed breasts and peculiar wings, in a treatment obviously already conventional. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z Here too was placed the curious column, with many flutes and an Ionic capital, on which stood the colossal sphinx, dedicated by the Naxians, that has been pieced together and placed in the museum. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z The foundations of its walls were found, as well as two limestone sphinxes inscribed with the name of Amon-em-hat iv., and three great statues of red granite, one of them upright, the others seated. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z It is a sphinx he has to answer: if he find not the solution of the riddle, the monster will devour him. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z The few that live there are of the sort that would camp under the nose of the sphinx and never look up into his face. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z In Phœnicia itself are found reliefs of similar sphinxes, old men with a human face on either side of the tree of life, which meet us oftentimes in the monuments of Assyria. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z Over the desert of death the sphinx gazes forever, but never speaks. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z Later, by solving the riddle of the sphinx, he freed Thebes from distress, was made king of the city, and married Jocasta. Women of Achievement Written for the Fireside Schools 2012-02-08T03:00:23.060Z The ruins are extensive, and the place is noted for its Hyksos sphinxes, in whose faces “the coarse Hyksos type” is strongly marked. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z It’s a cafe within a cafe, like a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a sphinx: A riddle that’s solved with fine espresso and cakes. Wolseley Sibling Lures Celebs With Lush Desserts: London Dining 2012-01-30T02:39:41Z The sphinxes buried in sand at Memphis have been discovered on the plateau on which the inhabitants buried their dead to the west of the ruins of this city. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z Traveller Where are those famed piles of human grandeur, Those sphinxes, pyramids, and Pompey's pillar, That bid defiance to the arm of Time— Tell me, dear Genius: for I long to see them. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z The show takes as its theme hybridized creatures — think modern sphinxes and Minotaurs. | New Jersey: Contemporary Arts Institute Moves to Asbury Park 2011-12-24T03:23:54Z He was a mystery to the world—a sphinx to most men. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z If so, you will understand to what an extent these old rulers "went in" for sphinxes. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z The sexual interest of children generally turns first to the mystery of birth—the same problem that is the basis of the questions asked by the sphinx of Thebes. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z This vase retains in its decoration some features of geometric style; but the lotus and rosette, the lion and sphinx which appear on it, belong to the wave of Ionian influence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z A costly monument to some hero of the Sutlej war challenges attention, with its tame and polished modern sphinxes. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z XLV The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political OEdipus has as yet found the answer. Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley 2011-11-24T03:00:46.350Z Winged horses soar through the air; gigantic sphinxes lurk in the deserts; devilish fauns roam through the forests.... Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z A bronze tripod was brought, supported by sphinxes, the worship of Isis being a fashionable idolatry at that period. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z The sphinx, the deer and the swan are prominent on it, the last-named serving as a link between the geometric ware and the more brilliant and varied ware of the Ionian cities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Under the two pairs of very wide-open eyes he remained as inscrutable as a sphinx. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z He flung himself across the pavement of the inner inclosure and down its aisle of sphinxes, through the gate in the rear wall and out into a black passage. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z The sphinx is thought to be a type of Horus, and the obelisks also seem to have been dedicated, for the most part, to the rising sun. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z Confronting mankind there stands a sphinx—the vast Unknown. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z One moment, in his adoration, he could have humbled himself to the dust to win one gracious word from her; at other times, his pride made him as silent and immovable as a sphinx. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z Four compound piers in the nave are adorned with an extraordinary series of sphinxes, symbols, animals and other figures. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z He made a picture of wretchedness which would have melted the heart of a sphinx. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z The sphinxes seem for the most part to have been set up in the avenues leading to the temples. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z His bronzed complexion, his thick lips, his low, square forehead which made him resemble the sphinx, indicated that he was the descendant of a non-European race. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z Across the lower terrace the way led them to the next higher, with a sharp turn to the right at the great stone sphinx which guarded the passage through the second wall. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z It was more gigantic than any sphinx that he had ever seen. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z Four stone sphinxes ornament this bridge, which is very large and well built. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z In ancient Egypt, sphinxes might be numbered by thousands, but the gigantic figure known by pre-eminence as “The Sphinx,” stands on the edge of the rocky platform on which are built the pyramids of Ghizeh. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z Muse was a living sphinx with such an attractive and finished beauty that it would have been difficult for the most clever observer to discover the least defect in her person, either physically or morally. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z The general is a sphinx; he gives no sign. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z They weigh upon my chest, O my lord, as though I were already sinking under them, like the obelisks and sphinxes! The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z The feet, as in all the beds of the Empire, consisted of caryatides and sphinxes; it gleamed with richly-gilt eagles, billing like turtle doves, perhaps an emblem of love under the Empire. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z An Egyptian sphinx has the body of a lion couchant with the head of a man. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z Not every one, however, could command the services of the modern oracle; only to the touch of a certain few was it responsive; to the many it was still and silent as a sphinx. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z The design is Egyptian, and is surmounted by a sphinx. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z There were sphinxes: they seemed to lift their basalt heads in prayer to the moon and the sky. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z A child, as I understand the little sphinx, is at once the subject of ever-changing caprices—whence the delight in playful defiance of all rule and order—and the reverer of custom, precedent, rule. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z And for what purpose was this sphinx of sphinxes called into being, as much greater than all other sphinxes as the pyramids are greater than all other temples or tombs? Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z The sun blinds him who cannot hearken to the sphinx. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z There were also golden couches, with feet made like sphinxes, on the two sides of the tent, a hundred on each side. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z But the pillars, the obelisks, the sphinxes seemed to totter, to slant, to burst with old age. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z In May, the Peramon Museum in Germany agreed to return a Hittite sphinx after the Turkish Culture Minister threatened to ban German archaeologists from digs in the country. US museum to return Turkish bust 2011-07-22T15:35:00Z On the pyramidion of the obelisk he is represented by a sphinx presenting gifts of water and wine to Tum, the setting sun, a solar deity worshipped at Heliopolis. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z But only during life do the words of the sphinx Possess a meaning for our ears. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z Sometimes, as in the Egyptian sphinx, the natural resemblance of a stone to a living form has been accentuated and increased by art. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z See these few sphinxes, whose heads alone still project above these downs. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z A gilt eagle extended its wings over an immense mirror, and a pair of sphinxes supported a marble pier-table, bearing a clock. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z Next morning, in the middle of breakfast, a knock was heard at the door, and our landlord let himself in with the newspaper in his hand and an expression like a sphinx on his face. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z Like the ancient sphinx, it has devoured them, because they could not explain it. God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z This passage was adorned on each side of the way with a range of 1600 sphinxes with the body of a lion and the head of a ram. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z A long avenue of recumbent sphinxes, male—bearded—and female—high-breasted—led to the pyramid tombs. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z Their lives were spent in answering a succession of riddles propounded by the terrible sphinx between whose taloned paws they existed as playthings. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Like a sphinx lay the jagged Capri darkly on the horizon in the water, and guarded the gates of the bay. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z A famous “illusion” which astounded audiences was the sphinx illustrated in Fig. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z These sphinxes and rams of the passage were probably the emblems of the different signs of the Zodiac along the route of the sun. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z Two sphinxes beside the narrow door lay like mysterious stone sentinels. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z Swan-white of heart, a sphinx no mortal knows, My throne is in the heaven's azure deep; I hate all movements that disturb my pose, I smile not ever, neither do I weep. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z The picture of the sphinx, ‘staring right on with calm eternal eyes,’ has the true touch of imagination; and so has the image of the wind smiting ‘his thunder-harp of pines.’ The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z To such flights of unshackled imagination, the variously formed sphinxes of the Chaldeans are but mere flutters of the wings. Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India 2011-05-31T02:00:29.133Z The sphinx has the wings of a bird, the tail of a serpent, the head of a woman. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z In between the sphinxes, the coloured lamps and lanterns blossomed like lotus-flowers, glowing blue, red and yellow. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z And gave her a marvellous riddle That the eyeless should read as he ran: What crawls and runs and is baffled By woman, the sphinx—but a man? Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z No sphinx could have been more utterly calm and mysterious. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z As an unfathomed sphinx, enthroned by the Nile, My heart a swan's whiteness with granite combines, And I hate every movement, displacing the lines, And never I weep and never I smile. The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z Many funeral torches, on white lustres, attached themselves to the Eastern gate, went in through the long green avenue, flickered over ruins, sphinxes, and marble torsos, and ended darkly in the mourning-thicket. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z This avenue, or dromos, led to the sanctuary, the temenos, along a double row of immense basalt sphinxes, half woman, half lioness; half man, half bull. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z Avenues of trees are inferior in dignity to avenues of sphinxes, but make pleasanter travelling. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z Yet 46 years later the fourth is still a sphinx. The Velvet Unknown, Now Emerging 2011-05-06T06:00:22Z So much for mental attainments and physical perfection, but in the domain of womanly emotions she is simply an unknown quantity—a latter-day sphinx, fresh and fair before drifting desert sands deface her. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z I thought of her as a sphinx because of her silence. Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z The sphinx of Giza was the guardian of the tombs of the dead; it protected them from the spiritual foes whose home was in the desert. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The question as to the age of the sphinx at Gizeh—the oldest of all—is still in abeyance. Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance 2011-04-09T02:00:11.757Z With what blissful presentiments did they step out again before the sphinx of night, who lay smiling before them with soft, starry glances! Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z Without moving an eyelash Mr. Noel sat like a sphinx, looking steadily at Eleanor, then took my opera glass and watched a party of pretty girls in the dress circle. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z The quadrille had just ended and I was wondering how best to make my little sphinx talk, when a strange thing happened. Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z The sphinx, in fact, performed precisely the same office as the winged bulls that guarded the entrance to an Assyrian palace, or the cherubim who stood at the gates of the garden of Eden. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z How stands the case with Egypt, where we find sphinxes that represent a combination of man and animal and where we encounter numerous gods composed of human bodies with the heads of animals? Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance 2011-04-09T02:00:11.757Z Happy for thee," said he, "that thou canst be thus, and that the sphinx in thy bosom still sleeps. Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z He had forgotten her mother standing there like a sphinx; and Betty’s face went suddenly pale, and then as suddenly reddened and dimpled, for he bent down and kissed each of her hands lingeringly. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z But now that some one else called her a sphinx, I observed that she wore a curious head-dress which reminded one of the great monument of the Eastern desert. Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z The sphinx, like the symbol of Set, is one of those composite creatures which meet us from time to time in Egyptian art. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z A sphinx above thee Asks the thrilled senses to resolve desires! Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z This was an avenue two kilometres long, very broad, lined not only with immense trees, but with two rows of sphinxes. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z Huddled in the cloak, her eyes fixed on the road in front, she sat as silent and enigmatic as a sphinx. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z "Then you did not learn the secret of your sphinx maiden after all," said Mr. Barnes. Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z His image may still be seen in the sphinx of Giza, with its human head and lion's body. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z "Are you not a little glad, you pale sphinx?" Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z Rameses and the priests entered the main building by an immense court and passed between two rows of sphinxes. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z The gateway is flanked by two huge blocks, each carved in front into the shape of a sphinx, while on the inner face is a relief of a two-headed eagle with wings displayed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z I looked around for the other two actors in the romantic drama, but neither Romeo nor my sphinx maiden was to be seen. Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z In the subtle operation of American political methods, silence is the sphinx that baffles the most astute and insinuating politician. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z Thus we have zones of trees and animals, attempts at the representation of scenery, and a profusion of ornament, while the influence of Egypt is traceable in the sphinxes and scarabs, which also occur plentifully. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z Leaving the temple of Amon the young couple and their splendid retinue passed through the avenue of sphinxes to the pharaoh’s palace. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z "No more than I do the riddle of the sphinx, Ferrars," he leaned forward eagerly as he put a question, and his eyes were apprehensive, though his voice was firm. The Last Stroke a detective story 2011-02-19T03:01:39.327Z So I hurried out into the air with my little sphinx, and soon we were walking up one of the snow-white walks. Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z Double rows of colossal sphinxes cut from gray, red, and black granite are ranged for miles along many of these avenues. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z One of these represents a column, which, like that above the Gate of Lions, carries us back to the architecture of Babylonia, while others exhibit the Egyptian sphinx, as modified by Phœnician artists. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z “He is the father of our sphinxes,” added the priest in a low voice. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z Each governmental sphinx bared his brow when he emerged to divulge, and covered it again when he subsided without divulging. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z Did you not say that your sphinx maiden was absent? Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z The approach to it was by an avenue lined with colossal sphinxes. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The sphinx of Egypt became Asiatic, and in its new form was transplanted to Nineveh on the one side and to Greece on the other. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z “That is no sphinx; it is a lion, and he will do no harm, for he is occupied in eating.” The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z She was as clear as crystal; she was as inscrutable as a sphinx—and she was all these things in that one short first hour. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z You remember after one of the quadrilles passing a girl and saying, "That girl is a sphinx"?' Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z Gone are the avenues of sphinxes, the groves of statues, and the renowned Temple of the Sun. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z One must renounce the task of describing the profusion of crockets that jut out from the walls, and represent sphinxes and chimeras executed with boldness and grace. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z The artists, seeing people oftener than lions, cut out the face of a man, and thus the first sphinx had its origin.” The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z The flaps of her cap fell like the fillets of a sphinx. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z In ancient Egypt, the pharaoh was often represented as a sphinx — part lion, part human. Putin Calls Meeting on Tiger Threats 2010-11-22T02:19:00Z Some experts say that many of the sphinxes were destroyed over the millennia, hacked to pieces or harvested for stone by the civilizations that followed the Pharaohs. Egypt's Plans for Luxor: Vegas on the Nile? 2010-10-21T09:20:00Z People refer to him as “the sphinx” or “Saint Job” for the way he seems to float above the political fray. European Muslims' Jewish Friend, Job Cohen 2010-05-29T09:13:00Z That sphinx is really the son of the gods and the father of terror.” The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z It shows a sphinx, flanked by a woman. Cairo views 2010-03-29T10:20:00Z She was represented standing, in a long tunic; on her head was a helmet, ornamented with sphinxes and griffins; on her breast was the aegis, fringed with serpents and the Gorgon’s head in centre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Now Old Cy became almost a walking sphinx, and found that time passed slowly. The Girl From Tim's Place Some of the statues of Minerva represented her helmet with a sphinx in the middle, supported on either side by griffins. Heathen Mythology But soon thou wilt know other feelings which will be as if a great sphinx were removed from thy bosom. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z But those below stairs were not above talking at dinner and supper in the servants’ hall, while Mademoiselle Justine sat like a smiling sphinx and listened, but said nothing. Lady Maude's Mania This family is named from a fancied resemblance of the larv� to the celebrated Egyptian sphinx. Butterflies and Moths (British) Originally the Temple of Luxor was five hundred feet long, one hundred and eighty feet wide, and, as before mentioned, was connected with Karnak by a double row of ram-headed sphinxes. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise Unfortunately further investigation has discredited the notion that the statue belongs to the basis, which seems rather to have supported a sphinx. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Statues of enormous size, sphinxes carved in stone, and on the walls sculptures in outline of deities and animals, with innumerable hieroglyphics, are the decorative objects which belong to this style. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli It was as expressionless as the face of the sphinx. The Man Who Rose Again Thou shalt not question me; Or if,—but as a sphinx in woman-shape: And when thou fail'st at answer, I shall turn, And rend thy heart and cast thee from the cliff. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors Then she was sorry afterward—collectively—and bought me a sphinx as a present—got it made cheap somewhere with her picture carved on the front of it. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise An avenue with sphinxes on both sides forms the approach to the temple. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Now this is what modern civilization has come up against, and it is the essential riddle of the modern sphinx which must be solved if we are to live. The Salvaging Of Civilisation He was immured in the speculation of their blackness: he pondered hopelessly their meaning and brooded upon the builders that built them and the sphinx that commanded them to be built. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Until he could drag the truth from the sphinx that guarded his secret, his love must be as inarticulate as was his sphinx. The Key to Yesterday It was faced on each side with ram-headed sphinxes only a few feet apart. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise At first there had been despair in her heart because the face of the man she thought she knew had been the face of a stranger, as unamenable to change as that of the sphinx. The Tempering The walls are covered with paintings, and two sphinxes guard the door. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance Wearily they trudged along, and towards morning they came upon a great stone sphinx, in the arms of which there nestled a company of little children, every one of whom was fast asleep. Bill the Minder If he laid the ghost of Carter, he would question his sphinx no further. The Key to Yesterday Then we settled down into the speed of a ram-headed sphinx again. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise Or what there is about a sphinx that makes people think it knows the answer to riddles? The Book of Gud Away to the southwest rose the smaller Temple of Khunsi, and from it the avenue of sphinxes which connected it with the Temple of Ammon two miles away at Luxor. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance Here he was met by a quiet-looking man of middle age, with a face like a sphinx, and wearing a black cutaway coat. A Traitor's Wooing He’s half clam and half sphinx, I think Jock is, and that makes a ‘dour lad’ when crossed with a ‘Glasgie’ strain. Sea-Hounds You saw what I did there; those ram-headed sphinxes nearly bankrupted me. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise They too were separated, and it was through long lines of sphinxes, and many successive chambers, that the Egyptian worshipper attained the shrine of some contemptible or hateful deity. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus An ordinary chameleon can shoot a fly at the distance of fully 6 in., and it can manage even a big sphinx moth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" The general effect is thus that of a rich oriental tapestry, and the subjects are largely chosen from the fantastic and monstrous creations of Assyrian art, such as the sphinx and gryphon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" At times he was more garrulous than ever I had known him to be, and at times he was a very sphinx for silence. Hempfield A Novel Why, I bought one round of necklaces that cost as much as a ram-headed sphinx. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise With great difficulty we made our way up to the top of the western end of "Lean Canyon," where we could ask the question of the sphinx who watched the sign of the treasure. The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure The characteristic Roman chairs were of marble, also adorned with sphinxes; the curule chair was originally very similar in form to the modern folding chair, but eventually received a good deal of ornament. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Note the avenue of sphinxes, the forest of columns which led to the river bank, the huge fallen capitals, on each of which a hundred men can stand. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. Oh, 'understand'—as if she were a sphinx, poor little girl! East Angels Also they set up a special chapel over his tomb, and this series of chapels and tombs eventually solidified into a great temple with pylons approached by an avenue of sphinxes. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise The next morning I looked out of the window, and there, right in front of me, in that ch�let, was my sphinx. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel On the frieze of the Parthenon Zeus occupies a square seat with a bar-back and thick turned legs; it is ornamented with winged sphinxes and the feet of beasts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" The sphinx near by can be reached either by camels, who stand in readiness to convey you, or you can walk. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 She has contrived to put all the mystery of the sphinx into her rendering of them. Interpreters “In the name of your patron saint, Hennessy, what have you said to Miss Leerie to turn her into that sphinx again?” Leerie But my sphinx not only did not appear at table d'h�te, she did not put her foot outside of the ch�let. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel There she lies, the last enigma, guarding her secrets still behind her savage coasts and the fringe of her untracked forests—the black sphinx of the seas, lovely, vast, and cruel. Where the Pavement Ends I am glad," he said to her, "that you have something of the sphinx in you, like other women. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine The well known stele of the sphinx was cut by the latter king, to commemorate his dream there and his clearing of the sphinx from sand. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The sphinx is a great stone figure of a beast with a human face. The Bible Story I wanted one that I could give to a sphinx. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel Had he fallen enamored of the sphinx, and had she drawn the veil for him? Where the Pavement Ends And so, if you can only spare a few minutes, I would like to tell you about the pyramids and the sphinx. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks The sphinxes that crouched in the avenues, the caryatides at the palace doors, the gods on their pedestals, had an expression enigmatic but identical. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern The pyramids and the sphinx were built before Joseph came to Egypt. The Bible Story The sphinx, which men have imagined concealing herself in the cloud, seemed to mock him with a dilemma. Toilers of the Sea The Naxian column at Delphi of the Ionic order carried a sphinx. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" The Egyptian postage stamps have pictures of both the pyramid and the sphinx. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks Ages ago the sphinx was disinterred from beneath masses of sand under which it had brooded interminably. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Any Hummingbird seen east of the Mississippi may, with confidence, be called a Ruby-throat; exceptions will probably prove to be sphinx moths, which, it must be confessed, look singularly hummingbird-like as they hover before flowers. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season Every malignant creature, like every perverted intelligence, is a sphinx. Toilers of the Sea Before the doorway crouched a sphinx, Half horror and half grace; With a lion's body, a lion's claws, And a woman's breast and face. Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine From the pyramid to the sphinx is quite a little walk through thick sand; and the Sphinx is so big you can hardly see it all at once. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks Its helmet is surmounted in the middle by the figure of a sphinx, and on either side of the helmet are griffins wrought in relief. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise Mr. Sewell?" said Moses, starting; "no, he didn't; in fact, I had a pleasant call there; and there was that confounded old sphinx of a Miss Roxy there. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine A terrible sphinx propounding a terrible riddle; the riddle of the existence of Evil. Toilers of the Sea As Bunsen says, "Egypt was to the Greeks a sphinx with an intellectual human countenance." History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition The riddle of the southern sphinx awaited its Oedipus. Charles Sumner Centenary The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14 "My dear sir," he exclaimed, "why should you desire to play the sphinx?" Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches "So I do," said the imperturbable Mr. Sewell, drinking his tea with the air of a sphinx. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine The doors were well panelled and often edged with brass-beading, while the feet were pads or claws, or, in the choicer examples, sphinxes in gilded bronze. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" Her pose was hieratic as a sphinx when she watched the antics of the neurasthenic Herod. Ivory Apes and Peacocks And the sphinx that patrols the highways of executive art has no more unanswerable riddle to propound. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) With senseless regularity, without soul or breath, the iron sphinxes turned their hardened limbs. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 That is not the riddle of the sphinx, but Juba did not correct him. Step IV She had drawn lines in the shape of a cross over the sphinx and sent him word that the solution of the enigma—was the cross. Fathers and Children But he was a sphinx the first time I met him. Ivory Apes and Peacocks This time she came with the sphinx’s purpose. The Missourian "Now what is this new thing," wailed Countess Betty, "Hamilcar doesn't say anything either; every one sits like a sphinx, guarding his own secret." The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 The records of Egyptian civilization through art, writing, painting, sculpture, architecture, and the great pyramids, obelisks, and sphinxes were but the records of the glory of kings, built upon the shame of humanity. History of Human Society He once gave her a ring with a sphinx engraved on the stone. Fathers and Children And let her buccaneers bestride the sphinx, And play at bowls with Pharaoh's pyramids, And hale white Egypt with their tarry hands Home to the Mermaid! Collected Poems Volume Two She was the spirit of the enigma, the very personification of the Napoleonic sphinx. The Missourian "The doubtful dromedary wept, As o'er the desert sands he stept, Association with the sphinx Has made him doubtful, so he thinks!" chortled the Knight with his head on one side. The Royal Book of Oz In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island So, too, the mighty sphinxes and colossal statues excite the wonder and admiration of the world. History of Human Society In Her Majesty’s collection there are some specimens from Burmah—creatures resembling sphinxes or deformed cherubim, executed in feathers, applied on silk and outlined in gold. Needlework As Art The sun, which now stood low, illumined his huge head and shaggy breasts, and in that ruddy luster he was like one of those sphinxes which ornament the entrances to ancient Egyptian temples. In Desert and Wilderness The placid Egyptian nature smiles on the face of the sphinx. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) But the fact remains that the satisfactory treatment of the cat in fiction requires not only a deep knowledge of but also a deep affection for the sphinx of the fireside. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales In sculpture, painting, and in art, as well as in permanency of her mighty pyramids, sphinxes, and tombs, Egypt stands far ahead of Babylonia. History of Human Society He sat down on a sofa, spreading his broad left hand over the gilded sphinx of its arm. Angelot A Story of the First Empire And Lyle, with that face of wondrous beauty, yet calm and inscrutable as that of the sphinx, had any power as yet passed over the hidden depths of her woman’s nature, and troubled the waters? The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West Does this account for the beneficent character of their government, and the prosperous-content of the people, which is reflected in the placid smile of their sphinxes? Flowers of Freethought (First Series) The frieze is decorated with a design of sphinxes. L'Aiglon Artistic energy was worked out in the making of the tombs of kings, the obelisks, the monuments, the sphinxes, and the pyramids. History of Human Society The materials were mahogany and gilded bronze; the forms were classical, lyres, urns, winged sphinxes everywhere. Angelot A Story of the First Empire We have discovered the sources of the river and have learned to read the writing on Egyptian monuments; but the sphinx has other riddles than these—riddles not yet solved. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems On its frontispiece, was a sphinx with a crown upon its head, the features closely resembling those of Bonaparte. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 The adjuncts to these buildings, especially the avenues of sphinxes, are planned so as to produce an air of stately grandeur, and in them some degree of external effect is aimed at. Architecture Classic and Early Christian Most of all he was surprised at the temples with their long avenues of sphinxes, the gigantic figures representing the gods, the rows of massive pillars, the majesty and grandeur of the edifices themselves. The Cat of Bubastes A Tale of Ancient Egypt Because he is great he is readable, but his secret is the secret of the sphinx; it may only be unravelled by a few strong souls. Melomaniacs The mountain was still the sphinx, telling her nothing, though she had come to it at last after months of questioning, with one question on her lips. The Heart of Thunder Mountain But he might as well have looked for expression in that of a sphinx. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills Rosario, like a sphinx in dudgeon, stood upright and stiff behind her counter, indifferent to the passing trade, spots on her cheeks and temples turning black-and-blue from the buffets they had received. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore Clementina slowly sank on the sand of the slope, and like lovely sphinx of northern desert gazed in immovable silence out on the yet more northern sea. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 A sphinx of the icy North, Sphinx buried by avalanche, The glacier's guardian ghost, Whose frozen secrets hide and blanch In her white heart innermost? Enamels and Cameos and other Poems A riddle that one shrinks To challenge from the scornful sphinx. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure A minute passed, but the sphinx did not move. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 He is black-whiskered though, and he is still very much of a sphinx, but he'll never have to answer for having killed the man he once brought back to life. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 And long ago I took a fancy to have a nice sphinx. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real These the sounds of solitude, Where the sphinxes yawn and doze, Dull and passionless of mood, Weary of their endless pose. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems All Egypt, its history, its cities, its buildings, its mummies, gods, cats, hawks, bulls, sphinxes, the Memnonium, resemble the fancies of a dream. Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Ford M. G.—The specimen you send is a sphinx moth, of which there are several varieties in the United States. Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly First this outrageous yarn, now Hammersly, the "sphinx," expressing an opinion, looking for an argument! Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 Well, being a woman of the world, thirty-three years of age—no deception, Morgan—and, knowing you have lived twenty-eight, I naturally suspect the existence of those chapters, you darling sphinx. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real He appears with the hawk head, or sometimes as a hawk-headed sphinx; and he became confused with Ra and with Amon. The Religion of Ancient Egypt Westlake looked at him suspiciously, but Sandy's face was grave as that of the sphinx. Rimrock Trail In the dry districts antelopes and buffaloes are found, and sphinxes, animals of an absurd-looking deformity, and other monsters which it is not worth while to enumerate. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Good fellow all right, and, for a 'sphinx' as you call him, likable. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 The sphinxes, placed at the entrance of all temples, implied the same. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) The sphinx is mobility itself compared with Mrs. Wilson's intense preservation of her status quo. Somehow Good Ages ago, from a sanctuary between the lion-like paws of the sphinx, sacrifices were undoubtedly offered, as archæologists believe, of human beings, to the divinity it was designed to represent. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Malcolm Sage had exhausted the interest of the sphinx and was now drawing diagrams with his forefinger upon the morocco surface of the table. Malcolm Sage, Detective Sir Henry Layard describes these sphinxes as buried in charcoal, and so calcined by the fire that they fell into minute fragments soon after exposure to the air. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 And the son who breaks into his father's house and murders him without murdering him is not even a romance—this is a sphinx setting us a riddle which he cannot solve himself. The Brothers Karamazov But what, in Heaven's name, was the use of bruising her brains against the conundrums of the great unanswered metaphysical sphinx? Somehow Good The conscience of this nation sits in the way like a sphinx, proposing its riddle of true democracy. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II "Where was the document kept?" enquired Malcolm Sage, his long, sensitive fingers stroking the back of the sphinx. Malcolm Sage, Detective Gilding, too, appears to have been extensively used in decoration, and some of the great sphinxes may have been overlaid with gold, like the cherubim in Solomon's temple. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Ivan is a sphinx and is silent; he is always silent. The Brothers Karamazov "My dear boy!—Joseph is a slimy sneak, and Gabriel is a bloodless sphinx—I hate both of them!" The Chestermarke Instinct Above its giant gateway, flanked with sphinxes, showed three rows of square windows, through which streamed the light from the interior and which formed upon the dark wall a sort of luminous checker-board. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt "One moment, sir," said Malcolm Sage quietly, without looking up from an absorbed contemplation of a bronze letter-weight fashioned in the form of a sphinx. Malcolm Sage, Detective Elegant paintings, delicate ornaments, stags, sphinxes, wild and fanciful flowers everywhere cover the walls. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life The sphinx was a strange creature that figured in different old-world mythologies. Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young Thus let me wait a year, and trust that in that year the sphinx will find her riddle answered.” A Victor of Salamis A great tame lion, lying by his side upon the litter, stretched out its enormous paws like a sphinx upon a pedestal, and winked its yellow eyes. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt "It seems fairly obvious," said Malcolm Sage, as he returned to his chair and resumed his stroking of the sphinx's back. Malcolm Sage, Detective A second wall enclosed the whole mass of these immense and splendid buildings, the approach to which was by means of avenues, having on their right and left colossal figures of sphinxes. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life On the summit or apex of the helmet was placed a sphinx, with griffins on either side. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles She offered no comment, but sat in front of him, unresponsive as the sphinx. Brand Blotters |
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