The shape and size of those hills resemble what one might expect for eroded remnants of structures the shape of the Egyptian sphinx. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
We grow it, and we found what we identified as sphinx moth larvae on the plants. From Wordnik.com. Reference
A sphinx is a mythological creature that is depicted as a recumbent feline with a human head. From Wordnik.com. [Where On Google Earth Can You Find These Monuments? | myFiveBest] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The sphinx is the icon of our Egyptian identity. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2006] Reference
Dating to ca. 560 B.C., the sphinx is the twin of one found in 1907. From Wordnik.com. [Old Site, New Tricks] Reference
The second, with rough hair, is called sphinx, and is docile, not wild. From Wordnik.com. [Dangit!] Reference
"Fancy 'Léna being called a sphinx," said Ila, who was looking very bored. From Wordnik.com. [The Californians] Reference
A sphinx is a great stone image with human head and breast and the body of a lion. From Wordnik.com. [Keats: Poems Published in 1820] Reference
The sphinx was a strange creature that figured in different old-world mythologies. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Without question this temple of the sphinx is the richest in Egypt in gifts, as well as most honored by its Pharaohs. From Wordnik.com. [The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage] Reference
With a lion’s body and a human head, the sphinx is a well known symbol of ancient art and myth. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
This uses the following options in a "sphinx" section of the options. the root under which sphinx will be working. From Wordnik.com. [O'Reilly News] Reference
This uses the following options in a "sphinx" section of the options. docroot the root under which sphinx will be working. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Python] Reference
If threatened, they can take on a "sphinx" pose, raising the front part of their body in an effort to look less like a caterpillar. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
"And he was called a sphinx," added the speaker. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands] Reference
At the base of the statue were a sphinx and a serpent. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
"You shall hear!" she said, with her sphinx-like smile. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
With some gilt couchant sphinx both casqued and crowned. From Wordnik.com. [The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence] Reference
His silence tempted her on like the smile of the sphinx. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
However, after communing with himself in sphinx-like gravity. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
Her face was as calm and inscrutable as the face of the sphinx. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
This is the dualism that confronts like a sphinx the foreigners. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
Don Carlos, his expression still sphinx-like, but his eyes twinkling. From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
She sits playing with her fan, and with a face expressionless as any sphinx. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
For hours together he lay stretched upon my knee, like the shadow of a sphinx. From Wordnik.com. [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference
Viewed from the right angle, you'll find a sphinx, a camel, a turtle or a dancing bear. From Wordnik.com. [Just get physical: active days out in Britain] Reference
To American policymakers, the government of Yemen has always been something of a sphinx. From Wordnik.com. [Friends for Now] Reference
She rarely gives interviews or speaks in public; she's like a sphinx with hair extensions. From Wordnik.com. [Riffs: Kanye, Britney and Gaga: By their Twitter feeds ye shall know them] Reference
The puppy held herself like a sphinx and stared deep into the park across the street, patient. From Wordnik.com. [Day 62 - Claims.] Reference
But do you know that from a boy I have viewed that cupboard as impenetrable as the sphinx itself?. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] 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
Meet the sphinx, North YorkshireBrimham Rocks is a natural adventure playground, 10 miles outside Ripon. From Wordnik.com. [Just get physical: active days out in Britain] Reference
And there is cake, a six-foot replica of the golden sphinx, a centrepiece of the Egyptian room in Harrods. From Wordnik.com. [Diary] Reference
Even in recent months, as Asia's miracle turned into mire, the sphinx-faced autocrat managed to keep up appearances. From Wordnik.com. [Now It's Epidemic] Reference
"My dear Pierre, you come in time from the land of the sphinx," interrupted Jeanne gravely, and glancing intently at Micheline. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] 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
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
Apparently, however, the sphinx of Far End was compounded of even more adamantine substance than his feminine prototype, for he exhibited. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
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