From between the paws of the rock-hewn Sphinx rises the genius of human liberty, and the trumpets of the Exodus throb with the defiant proclamation of the rights of man.
Why should he question the Sphinx of Fate, or quarrel with destinies the high gods had decreed?
There is an antique bas-relief representing the Sphinx devouring a Cupid.
It was just then, at the most stormy moment of the crisis, that the offer was made him, and the naked bosom of the Sphinx appeared before his dazzled eyes.
The Sphinx was so mortified at the solving of her riddle that she cast herself down from the rock and perished.
Some of them were supposed to combine the members of different animals; such were the Sphinx and Chimaera; and to these all the terrible qualities of wild beasts were attributed, together with human sagacity and faculties.
The Sphinx asked him, "What animal is that which in the morning gees on four feet, at noon on two, and in the evening upon three?
And when the Sphinx found that her riddle was answered she cast herself from a high rock and perished.
Suppose my Œdipus should lurk at last Under a pork-pie hat and crinoline, And, latish, pounce on Sphinx in Leicester Square?
It must be noted that this kind of sphinx being human-faced and bearded, is always the representation of Pharaoh as the essence of the godhead.
Its symbolic representation was the sphinx, and its principal sanctuary was built between the paws of the Great Sphinx at Gizeh in front of the Pyramid of Kheops.
The heart of simplest man or woman is a mystery, compared with which the sphinx is an open secret.
But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does.
Admitting that the gigantic and dark insurrection of June was composed of a fury and an enigma, the dragon was seen in the first barricade and the sphinx behind the second.
This habit of trial Jean Valjean had, and he looked at the Sphinx fixedly, and examined the pitiless problem from all sides.
But how much more amazing it is that before there was the Sphinx he was able to see it with his imagination!
When I came to the edge of the sand basin where perhaps Khufu saw it lying nearly four thousand years before the birth of Christ, the Sphinx and the bird were quite alone.
Like them, the Sphinxis waiting, but with a greater purpose.
Always as you return to the Sphinx you wonder at it more, you adore more strangely its repose, you steep yourself more intimately in the aloof peace that seems to emanate from it as light emanates from the sun.
What does matter is that into the conception and execution of the Sphinx has been poured a supreme imaginative power.
The centaur, perhaps, ranks next to the sphinxin artistic merit.
It may be that the Child rising from the Shell is sunrise over the sea, and the Sphinx sunrise over the land.
A carving in the arm-rest of one of the stalls of Beverley Minster, suggested in the block on page 159, shews a sphinx with a shield; there are in the same church several fine examples seated in the orthodox manner.
Birch, the sphinx is to be read as being the symbol of Harmachis or "the sun on the horizon.
Another sphinx in the same sedilia is of the winged variety.
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.
A little to the south-east of the Sphinx stands the large granite and limestone temple excavated by M.
The Sphinxis here hewn out of the solid rock, but pieces of stone have been added when necessary.
Egypt if he would dig his image the Sphinx out of the sand.
Another inscription recently discovered shows that the Sphinx existed in the time of Cheops.
What an odd person who can also compose the fight between the Sphinx and the Chimaera!
In spite of your great Sphinx eyes, you have seen the world through a golden color.
In spite of your great Sphinx eyes, you have seen the world through a golden colour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sphinx" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
