While this sphynx is still a caterpillar, a dipterous tachinaria takes possession of it to feed her young ones.
It is of similarly colossal proportions, and stands in a district almost as lonely as that in which the Egyptian sphynx looks forth over the sands of the Memphean Desert.
But it is proper to add, that its appearance is probably accidental, the head of the Sphynx being produced by the three angular blocks of rock seen in profile.
Moreover, there is always a twofold Condition propounded with Sphynx her Enigmas.
The Sphynx was particularly amiable on this occasion, and only asked 'When Primroses came?
We proceed--' As he laid his hand on the wrapper, the Sphynx gave utterance to sounds so like the bad language of a cat that some looked round for one.
Lately up have I them graben, and likewise his tutelar Sphynx have found, and have even to give signs of animation compelled.
Macrae came last, and the Sphynx asked him which of the two contrary views was right.
But the man who had read the patriotic secret of the Mountain Sphynx felt the weight of that hour--who could doubt it?
Whoever was unable to solve the riddle was cast by the sphynx from the rock into a deep abyss.
Chios was famed for its wine, and the sphynx was a symbol of Dionysius.
The sphynx itself was probably a religious symbol of the Egyptians, which was transferred to Greece, and subsequently underwent a change of meaning.
Greek Art was only acquainted with the sphynx in its female form, and also departed from the Egyptian type by adding wings to the lion's body.
A statue of the Theban sphynx found in Colchester, and now in the museum of that town, gives the Greek conception of that creature.
For," they say, "the word sphynxin the Chaldaean language signifies overflowing.
The strange combination of human and animal features in the figure known as the sphynx is of frequent occurrence in both Greek and Egyptian mythology and art.
The form of the Theban sphynx was that of a lion, generally in a recumbent position, with the breast and upper part of a beautiful woman, and was in imitation of the original male sphynxes of Egypt.
Her very expression, too, had changed, her eyes were elongated, her features seemed delicately Egyptian; the brooding sphynx look was on her face.
She looked out broodingly at the ranges, the strange sphynx look in her eyes, but she did not answer him.
The singing Memnon are as songless from their chiselled lips as the tongueless Sphynx half buried in the yellow sand.
Avenues of gigantic sphynx led to gateways whose immense thresholds opened into pillared halls, where the carved columns seemed like a forest of stone.
The Sphynx is grand in its loneliness; it is imposing in its magnitude; it is impressive in the mystery that hangs over its story.
An inscription of Chufu (Cheops) preserved in the museum of Boulak, says that a temple adjoining the Sphynx was discovered by chance in his reign, which had been buried under the sand of the desert, and forgotten for many generations.
The Sphynx itself probably dates from the same period, for it is mentioned on the same inscription as being much older than the great Pyramids, and requiring repairs in the time of Chufu.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sphynx" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
