cyclopean eye. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a cyclopean wall. From Dictionary.com.
Do you ever lay awake at night dreaming of ways to introduce the word "cyclopean" into everyday speech?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lovecraft News Network] Reference
As far as I know there is not an exact Danish match to "cyclopean" but I would say a good substitute would be "enormt.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
Bellegra, a prehistoric fastness with some traces of "cyclopean" defences. From Wordnik.com. [Alone] Reference
The solarium dome glares up at me like a cyclopean eye. From Wordnik.com. [A King of Infinite Space]
Lush jungle wrapped cyclopean stone structures on the shore. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Within the sea of light I glimpsed shapes cyclopean, unnameable. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
Naptune and Uranus, cyclopean featureless blue orbs hanging in the heavens. From Wordnik.com. [nessus Diary Entry] Reference
It could be slow and tight, a cyclopean clench that suggested Bell's Palsy. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Clinton: The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly on the Palin] Reference
There was a preview here, in the line of cyclopean heads flanking the stairway. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Worlds of 2001]
The engineering difficulties were great, the dredging and filling a cyclopean task. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XX] Reference
He passed through the cyclopean waiting room, modelled after the Baths of Diocletian. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
And how my hatred for him grew and grew, during that fearful time, to cyclopean dimensions. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
Of such cyclopean style, though it is a small specimen, is the Chûn cromlech, standing near. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
A flight of shattered, cyclopean steps lifted to a ledge and here a crumbling fortress stood. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
We note with keen interest their expressions of hope for the control of this cyclopean menace. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference
It was opening and closing with a mechanical, slow-motion intensity, a ponderous cyclopean bellows. From Wordnik.com. [Icerigger]
It vanished into the cyclopean heights of the hall, leaving Crovax alone on the long, polished floor. From Wordnik.com. [Nemesis]
Beyond that the rock took over again, rising in cyclopean, tumbled splendor to the blinding snowcaps. From Wordnik.com. [The Gunslinger]
Out of the sky, as if rising from worlds beyond the horizon, a cyclopean phantasm of clouds took form. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
These appear to have been of cyclopean architecture, corresponding with the gigantic bodies of the race. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria] Reference
There is no lime on the island, so that the blocks are put together on the cyclopean plan, without cement. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
On the other side was a set of small rooms - no larger than cells - hewn out of the cyclopean stone blocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Kaisho]
A system of cyclopean masonry foundations and footings serves to protect the base of the building from water. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
The cyclopean, gibbering madness that walks and crawls and wriggles through men's most awful wants and desires?. From Wordnik.com. [The Gunslinger]
The trail wound interminably up a succession of ramps, with low, massive, cyclopean walls along the outer edges. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Wanderer]
It had been built of cyclopean stones, with smaller stones driven between them by workmen swinging huge wooden mauls. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
They swayed backward and forward, panted, sweated, like some cyclopean, many - legged monster rising from the lower deeps. From Wordnik.com. [JAN, THE UNREPENTANT] Reference
Where the rubble stones are very large it is now customary to use the term "cyclopean masonry" instead of rubble concrete. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
The ship's cyclopean headlight cast a cone of radiance into the dark and where it lit, Hayden beheld a forest of icebergs. From Wordnik.com. [Sun of Suns] Reference
They poured through the gate in the cyclopean wall, down the Stair, down the ramps, and out across the floor of the canyon. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Wanderer]
Nothing more nor less is it than a cyclopean, rounded dome, split in half as cleanly as an apple that is divided by a knife. From Wordnik.com. [DUTCH COURAGE] Reference
So on they went to the point, where the cyclopean wall of granite cliff which forms the western side of Lundy, ends sheer in. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
In the second place, in one of its cyclopean moments the race had arisen and shoved back its frontier several thousand miles. From Wordnik.com. [AT THE RAINBOW'S END] Reference
Of this 250,000, we think that about 100,000 are cyclopean concrete, which means a savings of 30,000 cubic meters of concrete. From Wordnik.com. [Program on Workers Federation Congress Concludes] Reference
The masonry is of different character from that cyclopean piling of boulders which was all the earlier men had known of building. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
The run back to the raft turned into a nightmare, with groanings and heavings and cyclopean creakings alternating with distant detonations. From Wordnik.com. [Icerigger]
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