A striking example of this hybrid style is the famous colossus of Amathus, which is 13 ft.
Colossus whom nothing can terrify, plunges his dagger, without moving a muscle [Illustration: Fig.
The only difference between the Colossus of Rhodes and King HENRY VIII was that while Colossus was only a wonder, King H.
I really believe that the man has been a colossus of selfishness.
But I shall stick to my pedestal of faith in literary possibilities like an Egyptian colossuswith a broken nose, seated solemnly in the gloom of its own originality.
If I had not caught sight of the Colossus of Rhodes and the Pharus tower, I assure you I should never have made out the Earth at all.
The accounts of the height of the Colossus of Rhodes differ slightly, but all agree in making it 105 English feet.
The most remarkable is the Colossus of the Sun, which, the author of the iambics says, was “seventy cubits in height, the work of Chares of Lindus.
The fragments of the Colossus remained on the ground 923 years, until they were sold by Moawiyeh, the general of the Caliph Othman IV.
You shall not succeed, though, little Elector; the Colossuswill rear its head on high, and you alone will fall!
You fear lest if the great Colossus falls at once it might crush you, and therefore you would destroy it piecemeal, a little at a time!
Noll, still standing like a colossus at his post, knew it; and he shook his fist at the skies and the sea, and he cursed the wind and dared it.
An hour after lowering, the whale was alongside the Sally; a monstrous creature, not far short of the colossus Cap'n Wing had slain.
We have built scores of the biggest blocks in the world and of them all this Colossus was the most perfect.
No doubt about that," agreed Linane, "but I can swear that the Colossus went up according to specifications and that every ounce and splinter of material was of the best.
It was this fact, coupled with what the world calls a "lucky break," that solved the Colossus mystery.
One was that the Mad Musician had had offices and a studio in the Colossus and was one of the first to move in.
He had walked past the scene of the Colossus crash several times.
Finally the Prussian lost his temper, and just as Anthony was rolling towards him he responded with such a terrific blow with his fist that the Colossus staggered.
And so you're fished up from the Streights (* Alluding to the Colossus of Rhodes) at last, Pether?
A stare of awkward perplexity was the only reply he could get from the colossus he addressed.
On the inscription Apepi on a colossusof Ramses II.
That the name is given to the northern colossus only is due to the following reasons.
About the middle are two pyramids, each of which rises about fifty fathoms out of the water, and on each is a stone colossus seated on a throne.
There was apparently a secondcolossus on the other side of the entrance corresponding to this.
In the time of Septimius Severus, when the colossus was restored--the upper parts are now composed of four pieces--the inscriptions and the marvel came to an end.
The Greeks regarded the northern colossus as the statue of Memnon.
Hamilton is really a colossus to the anti-republican party.
He was emphatically a working man--a colossus in the cause of liberty and human rights.
As an advocate, orator, patriot and statesman--he was the colossus of his time.
He stood--the Colossus of Liberty among the monarchs of Europe and wrung from them the homage due to a nation that dared to be FREE.
Colossus of Rhodes, Junior,' from the Colossus who certainly was your father.
Then she fixed her brilliant eyes upon the Colossuswho had just been introduced to her.
There was nothing for it but to credit the Colossus with a touch of the sun, and add thereto a hint of his passionate attachment for the buxom Countess.
Again the buoyant spirits of the Colossus won him the suffrages of the crowd.
A tall Colossus, bronze and gold, As if that flame-lit form were he Who once bestrode the Rhodian sea, And ruled the watery world of old: As if the lost Colossus stood Above that burning sea of wood.
The Colossus of the Roman Empire threatened an approaching and stunning fall: the spirit of life was rapidly becoming extinguished, and there was no longer any hope of a breath to reanimate it.
When Herodotus visited Egypt this mighty colossus lay at Memphis thrown down on its back, and one of equal dimensions (no doubt they were portraits of Amasis) lay in a similar position at Sais.
They were not accustomed to having people enter the sanctum of the Colossus so unceremoniously.
But the Colossus prospered and slowly built up the foundations of the extraordinary fortune which is the talk and the wonder of the world today.
Such was the Colossuson whom all eyes were turned as he entered.
Was it possible that the dreaded Colossus had capitulated and that she had saved her father?
The face of the Colossus as he uttered this stand and deliver speech was calm and inscrutable.
What could the Colossus do now to save the situation?
Another aid to identification is the circumstance that a colossus could represent no one but a preéminent person; and this criterion favors the Neapolitan head of Cæsar mentioned above.
The colossus statue in the Conservatori Palace seems to be authentic, but was made a half century or more after his death.
A feather-weight, this dainty creature, but Mark was no colossus like Archie.
Then he thought of the colossus at the corner of Devonshire House, and took comfort in him--the Argus-eyed, the omnipresent and omnipotent.
Again she fled, while the colossus shook from side to side although there was no wind.
Colossus took the part of Sphinx, and the affair was at length submitted to the decision of a grand council in a great hall, adorned with seats on every side in form of an amphitheatre.
Colossus instantly, with his teeth, cracked off the superior part of the cupola, and then applying his lips to the instrument, began to sound it like a trumpet.
The colossus which is the pedestal contemplates the pigmy which is the statue.
Was not the fatal moment arrived when this Colossus was about to surround us with his threatening arms?
But in the midst of the extreme disorder, it required a colossus for a rallying point, and he had just disappeared.
Berezina that this meteor would be extinguished, this colossus overthrown, in the midst of Wittgenstein, Tchitchakof, and himself, and in the presence of the assembled Russian armies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colossus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
