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Example sentences for "colossal statue"

  • To the right of the entrance a broad staircase leads up to a Calvary containing a colossal statue of Christ.

  • The cathedral has a façade in the modern taste, with granite columns; in the interior is a colossal statue of St. Joseph by Parodi.

  • The pope soon gave him an order for a colossal statue in bronze to be erected in Bologna.

  • His masterpiece is a colossal statue of St. Andrew in the Church of St. Peter's; it occupied him five years, and is one of the best works of modern art.

  • It formerly belonged to a colossal statue erected by that prince in the part of the temple built by himself.

  • It is all that remains of a colossal statue of Ousourtesen.

  • In the centre of the lake is a rock and on this rock is a colossal statue in white marble of Neptune in his car.

  • Behind and above him is a colossal statue of Religion with a cross in one hand and rays in form of spikes issuing from her head.

  • Colossal bronze head of a colossal statue of Apollo, found near the Colosseum.

  • Colossal statue of a Roman warrior found on the Aventine, supposed to represent Mars; a very fine work.

  • At the foot of the staircase is a colossal statue of the Emperor Hadrian, found on the Coelian.

  • The terrace, which looks down upon the Villa Borghese, is bordered by ancient sarcophagi, and has a colossal statue of Rome.

  • Nearer the Coliseum may still be seen the remains of the foundation prepared by Hadrian for the Colossal Statue of Nero, executed in bronze by Zenodorus.

  • They saw also a colossal statue of a female, with hieroglyphics.

  • Among the former was a colossal statue of the Nile, surrounded by sixteen children, cut out of one block of basalt; among the latter was the famous picture of Jalysus, painted by Protogenes of Rhodes.

  • It contains a colossal statue of the Commodore, in Italian marble, standing on a pedestal of Rhode Island granite, the entire monument being about twenty feet in height.

  • The shaft is to be an elegant Doric column, the whole to be surmounted by a colossal statue of America resting on a hemisphere, guarded by four figures of the American eagle, with outspread wings.

  • In this park a brownstone shaft, surmounted by a colossal statue of Britannia, perpetuates the memory of the Canadians who fell in repelling the Fenian invasion in 1866.

  • A fountain, with immense granite basins, and a colossal statue of the Angel of Bethesda, stands between the terrace and the lake.

  • In the middle rises the Washington Monument, a column one hundred and thirty feet high, surmounted by a colossal statue of George Washington.

  • In the campus is a colossal statue of the founder, by Moretti.

  • A colossal statue of Juno, which had once adorned her temple of Samos, the enormous head by four yoke of oxen was laboriously drawn to the palace.

  • In the same year, 1523, the Genoese entered into negotiations for a colossal statue of Andrea Doria, which they desired to obtain from the hand of Michelangelo.

  • He made Fattucci write that he wished to erect a colossal statue on the piazza of S.

  • A new project seems also to have been started by his friend Soderini--that of making him erect a colossal statue of Hercules subduing Cacus opposite the David.

  • To one side of the doors would be a colossal statue of Augustus; on the other a colossal statue of the builder Agrippa, the son-in-law of that emperor.

  • Above this base towers a conical mound of earth planted with evergreen trees, and on the summit is a colossal statue of the first emperor.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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