52 examples of cyclopean in sentences

In a moment they all saw it, a single, pin-point glow, far back in the blackness, a Cyclopean eye, that swayed as it approached.

As I stood there a woman's shrill scream of excruciating pain reached me, notwithstanding those cyclopean walls.

The earlier Greek buildings are cyclopean, that is, of stone fitted together without mortar.

Outside, through the grimy surgery window over a foreground of blackened brick and slate, a line of enormous chimneys like Cyclopean pillars upheld the lowering, dun-coloured cloud-bank.

In the crevices of Cyclopean walls,in the dust where men lie, dust also,on the mounds that bury huge cities, the Birs Nemroud and the Babel-heap,still that same sweet prayer and benediction.

This groundwork of the Roman power could only be broken up, like the Cyclopean walls, stone by stone.

A little farther up the stream one passes through a massive megalithic gateway and finds one's self in the presence of the astounding gray-blue Cyclopean walls of Sacsahuaman, described in "Across South America."

Is it not reasonable to suppose that a people to whom stone-faced terraces meant so much in the way of life-giving food should have sometimes built massive terraces of Cyclopean character, like Sacsahuaman, as an offering to the deity who first taught them terrace construction?

Not only were they made of selected blocks of beautifully grained white granite; their walls contained ashlars of Cyclopean size, ten feet in length, and higher than a man.

If Mommsen at times pushes conjecture to the verge of invention, as in his account of the junction of the Helvetii and Cimbri, Mr. Long, in his dogged determination never to swerve from facts to inference, falls into the opposite extreme, resorting to somewhat Cyclopean architecture in his detestation of stucco.

Loughrigg rises up like a cyclopean wall between us and the wind.'

Great crenellated ramparts, cyclopean, superb, follow the curve of the cliff.

All this time the photographer kept his eyes on his machine, which was rattling like a rapidly beaten drum, the cyclopean eye of the camera making impressions on a sensitised film-ribbon at the rate of forty a second, and every movement of the flying legs of the urging jockeys, even the puffs of dust that rose at the falling of each iron-shod hoof, was recorded for all time by the eye of the camera.

In her train moved, like moving mountains, Cyclopean guns that had never been seen among men, before which walled cities melted like wax, their mouths set insolently upwards as if threatening to besiege the sun.

For this latter reason, and also the liability to damage by sudden floods during the progress of the works, dams of Portland cement concrete, on account of their quick consolidation, possess advantages over those of hydraulic masonry apart from the necessity in the latter instance of constant supervision to prevent "scamping" by leaving chinks and spaces vacant, especially where large masses of stone or Cyclopean rubble are used.

The dam will be 1,255 ft. long, and formed of Cyclopean rubble set in cement mortar, and the interstices or spaces between the large masses of stone, which are rough hewn and not squared, are filled with cement concrete.

The hearting is of concrete for a depth of 45 ft. from the top, and the remaining depth is in Cyclopean rubble.

Then it fluttered up, and perched on a bough of the old oak, from the deep labyrinth of whose branches the other birds had emerged; and from thence it flew down and lighted on the broad druidic stone, that stood like a cyclopean table on its sunken stone props, before the snakelike roots of the oak.

Here had once been the barrier of a cataract; the waters had ground through it, tumbled it down, and gnawed it to tatters; the scattered bowlders which showed through the foam were the remnants of the Cyclopean feast.

Henceforward, still locked in Titanic defiles or flanked by Cyclopean débris, they were on the Colorado of the West.

Beheld from a distance, it seemed impossible that they should not be ruins, the monuments of some Cyclopean race.

CYCLIC POETS, poets who after Homer's death caught the contagion of his great poem and wrote continuations, additions, &c. CYCLOPEAN WALLS, a name given to structures found in Greece, Asia Minor, Italy, and Sicily, built of large masses of unhewn stone and without cement, such as it is presumed a race of gigantic strength like the Cyclops (3) must have reared.

PALESTRINA, an Italian town, 22 m. SE. of Rome, on a slope of the Apennines, 2546 ft. above sea-level, on the site of the ancient Præneste, with the remains of Cyclopean walls, with a palace of the BARBERINI (q. v.).

Whether the Cyclopean ruins scattered over the continent,vast masses of stone placed one upon another without cement, which existed before the splendid cities whose ruins are yet seen in Central America,whether these are the work of this race, or of one still older, is entirely uncertain.

The builders of the Cyclopean ruins were the only exception.

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