The sphinx-like face broke abruptly into a harsh laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

"You shall hear!" she said, with her sphinx-like smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The sphinx-like rabbit with the pink head made me laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easter Wreck Round Up] Reference

Lucrezia is transformed into a sphinx-like objet de luxe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bronzino's Medici portraits – review] Reference

However, after communing with himself in sphinx-like gravity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

Don Carlos, his expression still sphinx-like, but his eyes twinkling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bandit Love] Reference

"You've ... changed," Ria said, favoring him with a sphinx-like smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond World's End]

Dr. Bull with his sphinx-like smile, “it hardly seems worth doing.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Thursday] Reference

Despite their sphinx-like silence, there was a plan to sell Sugars, after all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debenhams and Greene King buck market decline after updates] Reference

Snettishane was inwardly pleased, though his sphinx-like visage never relaxed.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT] Reference

"Age and maturity," the Biggest Devil answered and gave me a sphinx-like smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Ammann: How I Met the Biggest Devil] Reference

Giselle Allen and Benjamin Hulett were precisely sphinx-like as Quint and Jessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida] Reference

The grim switchboard flashed its metallic face in cryptic, sphinx-like immobility.    From Wordnik.com.  [DARKWATER] Reference

A sphinx-like smile curled the corners of her mouth; she was enjoying his expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Blade]

He really does look like a lion -- especially in the sphinx-like pose further down your page!.    From Wordnik.com.  [captions roundup #4] Reference

A frank and open rupture was not in the style or the ideas of her royal and sphinx-like lover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference

Copplestone's manservant was at work in the hall, and came forward with a sphinx-like expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crooked House] Reference

The sphinx-like one threw open the door and announced her name, and with quaking knees she entered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Splendid Folly] Reference

But then, a guy like that would pride himself on always cultivating that sphinx-like, unreadable face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » A Little Help from Our Friends…] Reference

Then he went to his Club and was sphinx-like and almost surly with one or two business friends he met.    From Wordnik.com.  [Author! Author! » 2008 » April] Reference

This blind girl was the natural sequence to the sphinx-like head that he had seen amid the black stockings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference

Lily watched him go, followed him with a sphinx-like glance, while a vague smile flickered about her lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

An exclamation from the colonel, who had stood sphinx-like, his glasses directed upon the grey house, made every one turn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

He looked, somehow, like a schoolboy with a sphinx-like expression, planning mischief and inwardly enjoying some private joke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bandit Love] Reference

For those that remember the sphinx-like Suharto years, the three-week presidential campaign was a remarkably transparent affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indonesia's New New Order] Reference

"Was my sphinx-like father presenting one character and living another?" she writes in her new memoir, "My Father's Secret War.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Secrets, Lies and Love] Reference

It was a great crouching statue of black stone, a sphinx-like, hulking god-thing whose name and nature were unknown to Ethram-Fal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan and the Emerald Lotus]

For more than 20 years under President Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's sphinx-like father who died in 2000, Kanaan was the man who ran Lebanon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buried With Secrets] Reference

Secretary Seward was there, sphinx-like and impassible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis] Reference

You have nearly killed me with your sphinx-like actions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Place of Honeymoons] Reference

The old man's face again relaxed into a sphinx-like smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo] Reference

His face was smiling, and yet was sphinx-like in the moonlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo] Reference

Jean stole a wondering look at Stonor's sphinx-like face as Vida.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Convert] Reference

His face was still sphinx-like but there was a speculative look in his shrewd eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man from the Bitter Roots] Reference

She never altered her position, but sat there, sphinx-like, in that attitude of stony grief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia] Reference

They would run upon the enigmatical attendant with the sphinx-like face and the parchment skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain of the Polestar] Reference

Gabriel, more sphinx-like than ever, regarded each in order with an air of distinct disapproval.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chestermarke Instinct] Reference