All he has to do is destroy the colossi roaming the land. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
And these are turbulent times for those televisual colossi. From Wordnik.com. [Jay Leno Wishes He Was Best Friends With Conan O’Brien] Reference
The two colossi on the plain of Thebes are, of course, hard gritstone. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
They include Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, both colossi in the field. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond J. Learsy: Wall Street Stampedes To The Aid of the Oil Speculators!] Reference
The two most famous colossi are the seated figures in the plain of Thebes. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
She is as overawed by the colossi as Twain and Flaubert were by the Sphinx. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Egypt] Reference
Did you not say that Goethe and Byron were the colossi of egoism and poetry?. From Wordnik.com. [Modeste Mignon] Reference
For the lieutenant they had become thundering giants, behemoths and colossi. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Mission Moluk]
There are such things as figments of the brain, even in the heads of colossi. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
Outside, in the starlit darkness, a pair of strange colossi moved in the night. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
These were not nice trees; they were gnarled colossi bearing thorns and twitching vines. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
These men were generally thick-set, with curved noses like those of the Assyrian colossi. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
The four mounted their horses and rode between the stone colossi into the kingdom of Ebenfar. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
Scant minutes later, the four were hiding behind the gigantic foot of one of the stone colossi. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
Perhaps the deity is one of the colossi, and is seeking to destroy the others for his own ends?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
She looked much like Sheko in the colossi we had seen on Delta, almost like Celya Crail herself. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Toppled live oaks lay like fallen colossi, except there was no grandeur to the scene, just despair. From Wordnik.com. [After Katrina] Reference
Spaced half a mile apart, these impressive structures loomed over homes and fields like petrified colossi. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]
Nonetheless, these are aspiring footballers rather than the colossi we have known in former Germany line-ups. From Wordnik.com. [World Cup 2010: Fabio Capello must deliver as moment of truth arrives] Reference
The four colossi sat, with hands resting on knees, with arms crumbled quite away, and gazed out upon the river. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
On either side of the gate were thirty-five-feet-high colossi of Pharaoh—clay and plaster over metal framing. From Wordnik.com. [Empire of Dreams] Reference
Armed with a bow and sword, you must destroy the colossi scattered throughout the land in order to accomplish this. From Wordnik.com. [On The Shoulders Of Giants] Reference
The way he spoke about the colossi seemed vaguely sinister and he seemed to be using the hero to serve his own ends. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
About the feet of the colossi I could make out the creeping forms of beasts that laired in the once proud works of men. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
All this I knew -- crumbling colossi and river and sand and sun and brazen sky -- was to pass away in the twinkling of an eye. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
I've heard of people saying they didn't finish this game because they couldn't bring themselves to kill the remaining colossi. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Madonna began the 90's at her commercial zenith, bestriding the world in the overweening manner common to pop - culture colossi. From Wordnik.com. [Madonna: Zero to 90's] Reference
If Egypt were to reclaim the obelisk, what would become of the Bernini marble colossi, representing the four rivers of the world?. From Wordnik.com. [Sharon Waxman: Unravelling History] Reference
All these figures, as well as the colossi, are covered with a thick coat of stucco, and had once been painted; they must then have had. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Nubia] Reference
If that's too “in” for ya, think of heavyweight boxing in the seventies when it was ruled by colossi like Ali, Frazier and Foreman. From Wordnik.com. [“The Mick”] Reference
Our Canadian universities may be no more than junior colossi, and luxury has never been on the menu. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
That night, we, pigmies, slept in the setting before which should have stridden the colossi of another age. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountains] Reference
During all my early years our old Harvard Alma Mater sat still and lifeless as the colossi in the Egyptian desert. From Wordnik.com. [A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio] Reference
'Self Preserved …' 's loose, jam-based riff colossi stand in stark relief to everyone else's doo-wop apery or sterile poptronica. From Wordnik.com. [NME Features] Reference
Size is not greatness; and Joshua's little circle told a more wonderful story than its taller kindred, or Egyptian obelisks or colossi. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference
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