A mild attack of Emerson followed, during which she was lost in a fog, and her sisters rejoiced inwardly when she emerged informing them that "The Sphinx was drowsy, Her wings were furled.

The Sphinx is a very large rock, made to look just like a lion with a man's head.

It is understood that Miss Sphinx, out of respect to her sex, is about thirty summerspermanently.

At present the two extremes of romantic expression are the Sphinx andthe automobile.

"Such a sphinx," as we are told in "Past and Present," "is this life of ours, to all men and nations.