Which preposition to use with sphinx

of Occurrences 9%

On the ocean's wide expanse a hulk wallowed sluggishly, the forgotten relict of a once brave and sightly ship, possibly the Sphinx of some untold ocean tragedy, she lay black and forbidding in the ordered procession of waves.

to Occurrences 5%

They are mute as Sphinx to souls which cannot supply the music and the poetry which fell from their marble lips upon the ear of him who created them.

with Occurrences 5%

For the Sphinx with breast of woman And face so debonair Had the sleek false paws of a lion, That could furtively seize and tear.

in Occurrences 3%

In another hall are two enormous Egyptian Gods in yellow granite; two superb sarcophagi in red marble and two immense Sphinxes in granite.

at Occurrences 2%

And when as I wandered over the grassy hills I came on a wattled shrine that was thatched with straw and saw a lion in it more worn with time than even the Sphinx at Gizeh and when I knew it for one of the four in Trafalgar Square then I saw that I was stranded far away in the future with many centuries of treacherous years between me and anything that I had known.

on Occurrences 1%

It seems to me, that, in this matter, the undertakers, digging a little too deep below the surface of the present age, have thrown out some of the mystical and grotesque remains of a very antique religious faith, which look as singular just now to the eyes of common people as would an Egyptian temple with its sacred Apis in Broadway, or a Sphinx on Boston Common.

into Occurrences 1%

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

across Occurrences 1%

The negro was here before the Anglo-Saxon was evolved, and his thick lips and heavy-lidded eyes looked out from the inscrutable face of the Sphinx across the sands of Egypt while yet the ancestors of those who now oppress him were living in caves, practicing human sacrifice, and painting themselves with woadand the negro is here yet.

by Occurrences 1%

The Greek solves the riddle of the Sphinx by apprehending himself as subject, as man.

about Occurrences 1%

He was so greatly impressed with this idea that he went down to the court-yard to speak to the Sphinx about it.

near Occurrences 1%

The most famous example is of course the gigantic Sphinx near the Pyramids in Egypt, which has proved to be an inexhaustible theme for speculation and for poetry....

Which preposition to use with  sphinx