Their capitals are surmounted with crouching animals, twin elephants, a sphinx and lion, twin tigers, all beautifully carved through in places broken; while above them the main walls of the cave rise steep into a pointed vault, the centre of which is some twenty-four feet from the ground-floor.

From time to time you catch a glimpse of the black sphinx-faces, immobile and heavy-eyed, framed in scarves bearing a bold pattern of red monkeys and blue palm-trees: and as the din increases the owners of those inscrutable faces creep out and sink down upon a strip of china matting on the far side of the room.

The Marquis would call him the Sphinx, and what has he been doing here?

"The Sphinx or the Pyramids, I'd guess," she offered.

Darwin changed Fate from a static sphinx into a chameleon flux.

The wisest mind of wise antiquity told the riddle of the Sphinx, if having ears to hear we would hear.

" Sir Henry stood near the window, his face sphinx-like, as though turned to stone.

Although La Souleiade dated from the last century, it must have been refurnished under the First Empire, for it was hung with an old-fashioned printed calico, with a pattern representing busts of the Sphinx, and garlands of oak leaves.

As for the bed, covered with the same stuff, it had come down from so remote an antiquity that it had been replaced by another bed found in an adjoining room; another Empire bed, low and very broad, of massive mahogany, ornamented with brasses, its four square pillars adorned also with busts of the Sphinx, like those on the wall.

"What did the sphinx mean about ghosts in the court?" They walked out, gazing helplessly at the trampled grass about the fountain, at the melancholy walls, at the partly opened window of the room of mystery.

It is very likely that the Negroes of the United States have a fairly correct idea of what the white people of the country think of them, for that opinion has for a long time been and is still being constantly stated; but they are themselves more or less a sphinx to the whites.

A tall, pale shepherd youth was erect and motionless in a tattered hat and a brown cloak, overtopping the others by his head and thin throat, and there was something Sphinx-like in the expression of his still, sad face.

Only the fever-struck shepherd smiled in a sickly way and lost his Sphinx-like look all at once.

The readers of the "Atlantic" remember too well her "Maya, the Princess," "Metempsychosis," and "The Sphinx's Children," to need reminding that she has qualities of fancy as remarkable as her faculty for observing real life.

The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx!

The riddle of the modern Sphinx is, How to create a new architecture?

She looked with blank brown eyes at the new-comer, herself inscrutable as the Sphinx.

She has read me a riddle,Delphine is my Sphinx.

325, n. 3. SPHINX, the, iii. 337.

TOBY-DOG, on the carpet, in a sphinx-like attitude, watches HER and at the same time, is attentive to the words of his master, who is leaving the room on tip-toe.

The Dog, in a sphinx-like attitude, lifts his head boldly.) KIKI-THE-DEMURE What's that? TOBY-DOG A tradesman? KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (shrugging his shoulders)

These are Sphinx questions, which one may be excused from endeavouring to answer, seeing that the strongest and most far-reaching heads are at this moment intent upon themnot, so far as can be seen, with any strikingly successful result.

In still another was Napoleon in Egypt, before the Pyramids, seated, impassive, on his horse, gazing at the Sphinx, as if about to utter his immortal words to his soldiers: "Here, forty centuries look down upon us."

We were all silent for a moment, then he said, "Was I wrong, Des.?" "No, no." While, I was saying to myself, in behalf of Veronica, whose calm face baffled me, "Enigma, Sphinx"; she turned to Desmond, holding out her right arm, and said, "You are the man I saw in my dream.

She glanced once at Nap, but his face was sphinx-like, utterly unresponsive.