Brussels, to London and Italy, in search of other artists to help to complete the colossal edifice, and it stood for long the most splendid palace of Spain.
The scenes are mostly taken from the New Testament, terminating with a colossal Calvary.
The church of San Pedro Martir, attached to the monastery of that order, and affiliated to St John of Latran in Rome since 1773, is as black and chill as a colossal vault.
And at last the harbor, with its echoing bells and fog-whistles, the protesting shrieks of its man-machines; suddenly the colossal hull of a schooner at anchor.
It must be something rather out of the ordinary to stir John to such expression,--'Besotted vanity and colossal ignorance.
Then she read from her husband's letter: "The President in his besotted vanity and colossal ignorance has succeeded in creating trouble that twenty Presidents won't be able to settle.
Dante's praise is that he dared to write his autobiography in colossal cipher, or into universality.
This undertaking for another is the blunder which stands in colossalugliness in the governments of the world.
And further, though somewhat modified by the African dash, we detect it in the colossal statues of Egypt.
Its mammoths and its mastodons, its rhinoceri and its hippopotami, its enormous dinotherium and colossal megatherium, greatly more than equalled in bulk the largest mammals of the present time, and vastly exceeded them in number.
The blending is accomplished in a couple of colossal vats hewn out of the rock, and coated on the inside with cement.
The colossal structure which faces the Great Western Railway Station was erected about twenty-nine years ago.
Mitchell Prell--colossal version--had been chopped in two at the waist.
Under Harwell's commands, the colossal craft kept taking on migrants at top speed for thirty hours.
Ed followed him--as unobtrusive as part of the atmosphere--up a stairway and into a pleasant student room seen in colossal scale.
King Louis himself looked coldly on the enterprize: colossal Hero of two Worlds, having weighed himself in the balance, finds that he is become a gossamer Colossus, only some thirty turning out.
No huge mills and gleaming forges, no din of factories and throb of mines, nowhere any colossal centres for rushing, multiform American energy.
This, ambitious conception has been doomed to share the fate of so many other colossal undertakings.
A thick stream of dark blood spouted out from the wound, her colossal limbs quivered for a moment, and she expired.
The leader of the former, a man of colossal stature and intrepid behaviour, let fall in his fury some remarkable words-- "Strike!
The solitary tower with William of Wykeham's bill (in an unreceipted condition) were preserved by the family as colossal monuments of Geoffrey's magnificent intentions.
In front of the Dromos is a colossal figure consisting of a single stone.
Of these, three of colossal size, the work of Myron, stand [CAS.
Its remains extend over many hundred acres of ground, which are covered with blocks of granite, broken obelisks, columns, and colossal statues.
Judge William Tudor, the father of the ice business, now so colossal in its proportions, started the trade here, living on what is now the poor farm.
It is therefore apparent that those who deny the legitimacy of colossal sculptures in toto go too far; but it is quite true that colossal works have their own laws and are subject to peculiar conditions.
Very well; admitting for the sake of argument that it will be bombastic, shall we reject and condemn a colossal statue before having seen it, because there is nothing like it in France?
It would be quite as just to condemn the paintings on a colossal scale in which Tintoretto and Veronese so nobly manifested their exceptional powers.
It is not too much to say that Mr. Bartholdi in this case has shown a fine appreciation of the requirements of colossal sculpture.
The project of erecting a colossal statue of Liberty, which shall at once serve as a lighthouse and as a symbolic work of art, may be discussed from several different points of view.
Coming now to the main question, which it is the design of this paper to discuss, the inquiry arises: What of the colossal statue of Liberty as a work of art?
But a colossal work has its conditions of being: it must conform to certain laws.
It became a confusion of troubled mutterings and babblings and colossal whisperings.
At first he had fancied the Red One to be some colossal statue, like Memnon, rendered vocal under certain temperature conditions of sunlight.
To him, human life had dwarfed to microscopic proportions before this colossal portent of higher life from within the distances of the sidereal universe.
Their military weapons attained colossal proportions, and their projectiles, exceeding the prescribed limits, unfortunately occasionally cut in two some unoffending pedestrians.
Women, children, old men, all made it a point of duty to penetrate the mysteries of the colossal gun.
It was an enormous disc, whose colossal dimension could not be estimated.
Dazed and half-stunned he looked up and saw the elephant standing over him with one colossal foot poised over his prostrate body, ready to crush him to pulp.
Muriel concealed herself behind the colossal statue of Buddha and had not long to wait before from her hiding-place she saw two maskers, the Snake and the Dragon, enter the Temple cautiously.
At the invitation of the empress Catherine he went in 1766 to St Petersburg, where he executed a colossal statue of Peter the Great in bronze.
Within, on both sides, were wide scaffolds, four feet from the floor, and extending the entire length of the house, like the seats of a colossal omnibus.
It was he who made lakes and streams: for once the earth was parched and barren, all the water being gathered under the armpit of a colossal frog; but Jouskeha pierced the armpit, and let out the water.
This gentleman has a colossal appetite for oysters.
With the care of half a dozen colossal commercial undertakings upon his mind, he is as merry as a boy and as playful as a kitten.
The next discovery was recesses in the wall on either side of the door, which suggested the evident purpose of the colossal bar.
Against it stand four colossal Nubians, as black as night, dressed in white marble garments.
It is ornamented by six colossal upright statues, four of them Rameses himself, the other two his wife Nefert-Ari.
This, the most colossal assemblage of ruins which the world has to show, comprises no less than eleven separate temples within its four inclosing walls of crude brick.
His head alone now rises above the sand, but in the days of Herodotus his vast bulk, cut from a rock nearly 70 feet high, was well calculated to prepare the eye of the traveller for the still more colossal masses of the pyramids.
When Cheops first began to think about building his tomb, he could not have counted upon giving it the colossal dimensions which it presents even in its actual injured condition.
Colossal statues, twelve cubits high, were employed as supports, instead of columns.
Greece never produced anything like Karnak or Luxor; even in the centuries when the taste for the colossal eclipsed the love for the great, she never dreamed or imagined anything of the kind.
A third adventurer was a shepherd named Athronges, a giant in strength and stature, who was accompanied into the field of battle by four brothers, all of the same colossal build.
Thus Trajan had to oppose the Jews on three sides, and had they united and mutually supported each other, the colossal Roman empire would perhaps have received a deadly blow.
Two colossal figures were raised in Caesarea, one of them representing, in gigantic proportions, the figure of Augustus as the Olympian Jupiter, and the other that of the city of Rome as the Argive Juno.
He went on to complain of the colossalignorance of Russia and Russian ideals possessed by this country, and entered an earnest plea for a more intelligent comprehension of existing conditions than at present obtaining.
Three of these recumbent figures are of colossal size, hewn out of the tufa rock and painted.
