He remained for a short time in the famous posture of the Colossus of Rhodes, vainly endeavoring to shake off the cigar-stumps and other little et ceteras which were clinging to him like cerements, uttering the while unintelligible oaths.

Many towns of the Samnites are so utterly destroyed by the Romans that their sites are unknown; a portion of the spoil is cast into a brazen colossus, and placed in front of the Roman Capitol.

" "Well, you know," said Jones"where's Colossus?

Colossus strayed off a minute in Mobile, and I plum lost him for two days.

Colossus and this boy can go to the kitchen.

Now, Colossus, what air you a-beckonin' at me faw?" He let his servant draw him aside and address him in a whisper.

Why, Colossus, you shayn't talk so, saw.

"Colossus, will you do ez I tell you, or shell I hev to strike you, saw?" "O Mahs Jimmy, II's gwine; but"he ventured nearer"don't on no account drink nothin', Mahs Jimmy.

Why, Colossus, you most of been dosted with sumthin'; yo' plum crazy.

There, in the quiet company of Baptiste and the grocer, the colloquial powers of Colossus, which were simply prodigious, began very soon to show themselves.

But the fascinations of Colossus's eloquence must not mislead us; this is the story of a true Christian; to wit, Parson Jones.

But Colossus's master was not re-assured.

"I thought I saw Colossus," answered the parson, with an anxious face; "I reckon 'twa'n't him, though."

By this means you may define ex ungue leonem, as the diverb is, by his thumb alone the bigness of Hercules, or the true dimensions of the great Colossus, Solomon's temple, and Domitian's amphitheatre out of a little part.

And he descended from his camel and sat by us and said: 'When morning shines on the colossus Neb and Neb speaks, at once the musicians of King Nehemoth in Babbulkund awake.

In the course of the day we passed the island of Babuan, and several detached rocks, rising, colossus like, from the sea.

An American was reading aloud from a newspaper: "If the Imperturbable Colossus gets knocked out, a general assault upon all negroes throughout the States may be expected to ensue.

There is that fine description of a prize-fight in Virgil, where the veteran'the imperturbable colossus' of his time, I suppose we may call himalmost knocks the life out of the younger man, and sends him from the contest swinging his head to and fro, and spitting out teeth mingled with bloodrather a horrible picture!" "Ten to six on the boiler-maker," said the cabman; "I'll take ten to six.

That in certain cases where acknowledgment was due it was not made, we may ascribe to opinion; or to defects which broke the complete rotundity of such a circle of endowments that without this breach they would have swollen their possessor to almost preterhuman proportions, empowering him to "bestride the narrow world like a Colossus.

The old Bourbons were never friendly to Russia, and would gladly have headed a coalition to drive her back to her forests; and the first Bonaparte was very desirous of being on good terms with the Northern Colossus, as if he were dimly forewarned of his coming fate at its hands.

What he did was to pour into these forms the incomparable richness of a personality whose fire and brilliance and humour transcended all locality and all tradition, a personality which strode like a colossus over the formalism and correctness of his time.

COLOSSOS (Latin, colossus), a gigantic brazen statue 126 feet high, executed by Charles for the Rhodians.

We spent a pleasant day at Smyrna, with its watermelons, Turkish coffee, and camels, and twenty-four hours later we were at the Isle of Rhodes, where the great Colossus was.

A lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written Paradise Lost should write such poor sonnets: "Milton, madam, was a genius that could cut a colossus from a rock, but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

The Colossus of Arcadia.