The so-called Cyclopean jointing, however, presents itself in every civilized land where rock is found which naturally breaks in polygonal forms.
Not all Cyclopean masonry is to be attributed to the earliest ages of Hellenic antiquity, for this manner of polygonal jointing remained in use long after a time when cut and squared stones were generally employed.
Similar evasive attempts are not wanting in Etruria; the Cyclopean walls, especially, present portal constructions similar to those of Mykenae.
Between the Tiber and Garigliano, as well as between the Arno and Tiber, there exist extensive remains of Cyclopean masonry, as well as walls of hewn and squared stones.
Carefully hewn slabs existed upon the terrace platform of Sargon's palace, and upon the substructure of the pyramid of Nimrud, while there was rough Cyclopean stone-work employed in the construction of the city walls at Kisr-Sargon.
The mound of earth was at times reveted with a masonry of large polygonal blocks, or placed upon a low cylindrical drum of such Cyclopean walls; the only architectural ornaments were simple base and cornice mouldings.
Defn: Outside of the branchial arches; -- said of the cartilages thus placed in some fishes.
It is the same style of work which characterizes the walls of the ancient cities of Etruria, and is also found in Ireland to have succeeded to the ruder primitive cyclopean masonry.
It has been already observed that it frequently occurs among the contents of the Scottish weems, or cyclopean underground dwellings of a very primitive state of society.
These gigantic and complicated works appear indeed to pertain to the transition between the Primeval and Archaic Periods, and partake at once of the earliest cyclopeancharacteristics and the later ornamental decorations.
The walls are made to converge towards the top, and the whole is roofed in by means of the primitive substitute for the arch which characterizes the cyclopean structures of infant Greece, and the vast temples and palaces of Mexico and Yucatan.
The masonry of the tower, as will be seen from the drawing of the doorway, is of that kind which has been traced as gradually arising out of the cyclopean work of ancient Greece.
The arrangement affords a very striking confirmation of the barbarous state of the people, who were yet capable of displaying so much skill and ingenuity in the erection of these cyclopean structures.
In these, oaken rafters appear to have supplied the place of the more ancient cyclopean arch, and the walls are generally built of smaller stones.
The plane rolled easily upon it, and out into the Cyclopean pillar of violet flame.
The walls of the room seemed distant, Cyclopean cliffs; the roof was like a sky.
Lycosura was walled by the Pelasgians between four and five centuries prior to the introduction of the Cyclopean masonry--in the building of the city of Tiryns.
By some antiquaries, who have not made the mistake of confounding these distinct orders of architecture, the Cyclopean has been deemed more ancient than the Pelasgic,--but this also is an error.
But the heavy bullet bothered the cyclopean reptile no more than a sting of a mosquito.
A titanic flaming gas vent spouted like a cyclopean torch from the peak of a nearby mountain.
The Piruas governed a vast empire, erected imperishable cyclopean edifices, and developed a complicated civilization, which is dimly indicated to us by the numerous symbolical sculptures on the monolith.
The earliest is an imitation of the cyclopean works of their ancestors on a smaller scale.
At Ollantay-tampu the ruins are of various styles, but the later works are raised on ancient cyclopean foundations.
There is a great cyclopean wall, a series of seats or thrones of various forms hewn out of the solid stone, and a huge block carved on five sides, called the Rumi-huasi.
Further north there are other examples of prehistoric cyclopean remains.
Spanish writers received statements from the Indians that one or other of these cyclopean ruins was built by some particular Inca.
Cyclopean ruins, quite foreign to the genius of Inca architecture, point to this conclusion.
The general type isCyclopean masonry, faced with dressed stones.
Still farther north there are cyclopean ruins at Concacha, at Huiñaque, and at Huaraz.
The worship of this creating God, the Dweller in Space, the Teacher and Ruler of the Universe, was, then, the religion of the Incas which had been inherited from their distant ancestry of the cyclopean age.
The Cacha temple belongs neither to the cyclopean period of the Piruas nor to the Inca style of architecture.
These cromlechs are the early memorials of a race which was succeeded by the people who constructed the cyclopean edifices of the Andean plateaux.
Here had once been the barrier of a cataract; the waters had ground through it, tumbled it down, and gnawed it to tatters; the scattered bowlders which showed through the foam were the remnants of the Cyclopean feast.
As the trap is columnar, and the columns are horizontal in their direction, the joints of the polygons show along the surface of the ramparts, causing them to look like the work of Cyclopean builders.
Henceforward, still locked in Titanic defiles or flanked by Cyclopean débris, they were on the Colorado of the West.
Beheld from a distance, it seemed impossible that they should not be ruins, the monuments of some Cyclopean race.
In one place we observed eight trincheras within 150 feet of each other, all built of large stones in the cyclopean style of masonry.
Several of the cyclopean riffles lead from the cave cliff to the stream.
Here again are found Cyclopean walls and the traces of some most ancient people who had sway in Italy at a period even more remote than the national existence of Etruria.
Mighty heroes sued for the love of this fairest of giant maidens, and the sea around Kunnan is said to be still cumbered with the fragments of rock which her Cyclopean admirers flung jealously at one another.
That Balor was Polyphemus, the Cyclopean Ciconian, is probable from the fact that he was blinded by a spear driven into his ill-omened eyeball, precisely as Polyphemus was blinded by a blazing stake from Ulysses.
This is a noble specimen of Cyclopean architecture, and appears to be parallel in style of building with the Cyclopean architecture of Etruria.
There are numerous allusions in the classics to a Cyclopean rocking-stone known as the Gigonian Rock, but the site of this famous oracle is not known.
Similarly, in the Dune Chein neighbourhood may be seen Cyclopean and "herring-bone" walls, which seemingly do not differ from those of Crete and Etruria.
There were those that tore great gaps in the horned giants--wounds that instantly were healed with globes and pyramids seething out from the Cyclopean trunk.
Cyclopean pin wheels they turned; again as one they ceased.
Out from each of these bodies that were at one and the same time trunks and heads, sprang half a score of colossal arms shaped like flails; like spike-studded girders, Titanic battle maces, Cyclopean sledges.
A flight of shattered, cyclopean steps lifted to a ledge and here a crumbling fortress stood.
And in its exact center, shining forth as though it opened into a place of pale azure incandescence was another rectangular Cyclopean portal.
THE CITY THAT WAS ALIVE Close beside us was one of the cyclopean columns.
Near the theatre there is a remnant of Cyclopean building, apparently the angle of a wall, made of huge uncut blocks, like those at Tiryns.
When you go in, and climb up the hill of the Acropolis, you find various other portions of Cyclopean walls which belonged to the old palace, in plan very similar to that of Tiryns.
Three of the ancient portals, the stone of which is faced inside, still exist, but apparently no records do, to tell us who placed these Cyclopean defences where they stand to-day.
Constructed of granite blocks, laid Cyclopeanfashion without mortar or cement, it commences near San Gabriel.
Five miles east of the Kutb are the cyclopean ruins of Tughlakábád (page 206).
This style in its beginning is best seen in the cyclopean ruins of Tughlakábád and the tomb of the Emperor Tughlak Sháh, and in some mosques in and near Delhi.
And Pierre was yet more overcome when he began to examine these presentments of humanity, magnified as by the eyes of a visionary, overflowing in mighty sympathetic pages of cyclopean symbolisation.
One of the palace terraces yet juts out upon cyclopean arches and from it the view is splendid.
Creator of Cyclopean harmonics as he was, he passed the time in delight when following the detailed arabesques, which, woven in transparent gauze, wound in filmy veils around the delicate conceptions of Chopin.
Down this avenue, which produced a mysterious impression of Cyclopean cathedrals and odd sequesteredness, I had not passed a mile, when I sighted a black object at the end.
Nothing was left but the masonry, giving somewhat of the look of the ancient Greek Cyclopean walls of Tiryns.
On the way across the frontier the going was simply climbing a Cyclopean stairway, and we reached the camp only at dusk.
The lower part, nearing Rieka, was simply a Cyclopean stairway, with rocky steps so high that the horses had to jump down from one to another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cyclopean" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: colossal; giant; gigantic; heroic; planetary; prodigious
